Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adj] control [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was no continuous , uninterrupted growth of scientific expertise or medical control over sex throughout the nineteenth century .
2 The significance of this is that not merely does sight — particularly the excellent stereoscopic colour vision of the primates — require a developed cerebral cortex , but it also tends to mean progressive emancipation from the basic chemical and pheromonal control of behaviour seen in many mammals in which the sense of smell has retained its pristine importance .
3 These restrictions provided sub-samples of 15 action and five control in Ipswich , and 11 action and ten control in Newham .
4 These restrictions provided sub-samples of 15 action and five control in Ipswich , and 11 action and ten control in Newham .
5 Significantly he was awarded the gold medal of the Institute of Transport in 1949 for a paper entitled : ‘ Budgeting and Statistical Control of Road Passenger Transport ’ .
6 ‘ a balance between the vehemently expressed wishes and feelings of the child and the harm which the child is at risk of suffering if continued control of diet is prolonged into a chronic state affecting intellectual development and the development of the reproductive organs .
7 Reports suggested that the latest round of talks , attended by the head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan ( DPK ) , Masoud Barzani , and the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , Jalal Talabani , reflected a hardening of Kurdish demands including the incorporation of 80 per cent of historically Kurdish areas into an autonomous Kurdish zone and Kurdish control over security forces in these areas .
8 It is interesting to note that , the exposure and greater control of FBI activities do not appear to have placed the United States at the mercy of subversives .
9 Hoffman-Bustamente has argued that these differing patterns of socialisation and social control for boys and girls have tended to concentrate those women who do break the law into certain categories of offence .
10 Cressey and MacInnes ( 1980 ) argue more broadly that Taylor 's project of minute and exact control over labour was actually a failure , and that Braverman 's tendency to take Taylor at face-value is a case of confusing the ‘ fetish of capital ’ for its reality .
11 Whilst cultural methods might be used to reduce the impact of some insect pests , they are by no means a reliable control and biological control of field pests is no than a pipe-dream at present .
12 Non-transgenic brain RNA ( nTgB ) was used as a positive control for the endogenous mNF-H signal and negative control for transgene expression while SKNSH RNA as positive control for the human NF-L protected fragment and negative control for the mNF-H protected fragment .
13 In other words , the ideology of limited intervention which the current Conservative administration espouses sits uneasily with its need to respond to the demands of industrial and property production and to those for environmental conservation and local control over land policy .
14 Lastly , general practitioners must feel confident to ask a colleague for advice if poor control of symptoms persists .
15 The report fell short , however , of the Quebec government 's demand for sole control over 22 areas of jurisdiction and shared control in others .
16 Williamson argues that the M-form , illustrated in Figure 2 , avoids these weaknesses in administering the diversified firm , by economizing on bounded rationality and improving control of opportunism .
17 I see it as part of the present government 's determination to reduce the power of Local Government , and centralise power and financial control at Westminster .
18 Foucault is therefore making the subtle and perceptive point that contemporary societies are largely characterised by self-policing and introspective control of feelings rather than the explicit display and use of force and authority .
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