Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] control [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem . |
| 2 | Loss of control over events . |
| 3 | item on the agenda right at the end late edition , which is the byelaw on control of dogs , which I think is something we discussed years ago |
| 4 | And devolution might be less effective than it should be if , as could well be the case in Scotland for example , the support for one particular party was such that there was very little likelihood of a change of control at elections . |
| 5 | defining a sensible unit of measurement as the ‘ job ’ ; many systems give a totally inadequate level of control through jobs being defined too widely ; |
| 6 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 7 | Capacity for Control by Users |
| 8 | Lord Denning observed : ‘ In the OLA 1957 the word occupier is used [ as ] … a convenient word to denote a person who had a sufficient degree of control over premises to put him under a duty of care towards those who came lawfully on to the premises . ’ |
| 9 | Lord Denning stated : Wherever a person has a sufficient degree of control over premises that he ought to realise that any failure on his part to use care may result in injury to a person coming lawfully there , then he is an occupier and the person coming lawfully there is his visitor . |
| 10 | The main advantage of elicitation procedures is that they give a relatively high degree of control over areas of linguistic ability which are being assessed . |
| 11 | Performance requirements have commonly increased , indicating countries ' determination to retain a degree of control over firms ; liberalisation does not mean laissez-faire . |
| 12 | The conservation area legislation also gives local planners a stronger degree of control over shopfronts than any other part of the building or type of building . |
| 13 | Chomsky points out that the principles of operant conditioning were originally derived from experimental studies of animals , in which the ex-perimenter could achieve a very high degree of control over variables which were presumed to influence behaviour . |
| 14 | We calculated the degree of control by cues other than the context cues by subtracting the pixel matrices of Fig. 2 d from those of Fig. 2 b , concentrating on time spent searching at F+ or F- and around L+ or L- . |
| 15 | Uniformity implies standardization and common procedures ; the pressure for uniformity includes the economies of standardization , the need for interchangeability in product systems , the need for control of processes , the need for a standard quality product , specialization of markets and the need for common management controls . |
| 16 | The need for control of computers was well anticipated by the Lindop committee in the 1970s . |
| 17 | It was also in this year that the Company lost — at least legally — its sole right of control over appointments , for schoolmasters were now required to hold licences from the Bishop of their province in this case , Chester . |
| 18 | Even though very few strikes create a real crisis of control in firms , any strike , no matter how short- lived , contains the seeds of a deeper threat to management . |
| 19 | In an interview with Pravda in March 1979 , the Iranian Minister of Information and Propaganda drew attention to measures such as ‘ the establishment of control over bases from which the Pentagon was carrying out electronic intelligence observations of the territory of the Soviet Union , the termination of the services of American military advisers in the armed forces , and a sharp cutback in the military budget ’ . |
| 20 | Conference on control of arms trade |
| 21 | This is a general provision and the person in control of premises may also have other duties under other enactments , for example with respect to means of escape in case of fire , and general fire precautions , and also with respect to public health . |
| 22 | In response to these general changes many local housing authorities are pursuing innovative ways of attracting private finance , often coupled with a devolution of control to tenants ' groups . |
| 23 | An analysis of the antecedents of the government 's decision to assume power over the school curriculum suggests a range of other motives , including the wresting of control from teachers and the ‘ educational establishment ’ , the elimination of perceived leftist influence in the classroom and the wish to give greater prominence to the needs of the national economy in shaping the curriculum ( Demaine 1988 , Quicke 1988 , Whitty 1989 ) . |
| 24 | In summary then , the method of control over businesses offering investment advice is one whereby Parliament through the Financial Services Act has delegated power to the Secretary of State who has in turn delegated most of his rule-making responsibilities to the SIB . |
| 25 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 26 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 27 | This quest for control of resources caused a row in the London Borough of Newham last week when a council recommendation to fund a refugee centre was — unsuccessfully in the end — opposed by Muslim councillors , who argued for a Muslim centre instead . |
| 28 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |
| 29 | Warning on control of schools |
| 30 | Simultaneous with this is the trend toward control of companies through minority shareholdings ; holders of minority stakes ( including individuals , financial institutions and other companies ) can potentially band together to form a controlling ‘ constellation of interests ’ . |