Example sentences of "[adj] control over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democratic rights ( such as press freedom or voting rights ) merely foster social control over the hearts and minds of workers by virtue of capitalists ' property resources . |
| 2 | Considering the extensive area the complex covered and the large and varied number of the inmates , considerably more guards or prison officers might have been expected , with a much more rigid control over the movements and integration of the prisoners . |
| 3 | Sadly , for a number of reasons , Parliament was unable to exercise adequate control over the contents of the Bill . |
| 4 | ‘ It is very difficult , as you can well imagine , for a parent to exercise proper control over the friendships of a daughter who insists on following a career . |
| 5 | Furthermore , whereas the House controls the ways it and committees are televised , it can exercise no editorial control over the ways the broadcasters use this material in their programmes , provided they comply with four specific guidelines . |
| 6 | Here the Anglo-Norman chancery was in the vanguard with the production of writs — commands addressed to the king-duke 's officials , used in eleventh-century Normandy , but developed in the course of the twelfth into the chief instrument for central control over the localities and for legal innovation . |
| 7 | But at least there is some form of official control over the films children see in cinemas . |
| 8 | The third section moves on to investigate the nature and effectiveness of British and American mechanisms for exercising democratic control over the police ( i.e. influencing their policies and making them answerable for their behaviour ) . |
| 9 | It therefore becomes imperative to ask : what are the existing mechanisms of democratic control over the police , and how effective are they ? |
| 10 | He failed to understand , of course , that the Lord knew exactly where he was , and what 's more had operative control over the winds and waters of the Eastern Mediterranean . |
| 11 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 12 | Even so , the limits are shown by management 's determination to maintain tight control over the terms of the effort bargain in newly extended job roles , both by improved measurement of individual productivities and the retention of strict disciplinary rules on the shopfloor , and by the manual unions ' hostility towards the Employee Involvement programme . |
| 13 | The net result was that Parliamentary control over the terms of the Bill was less than adequate . |
| 14 | effective control over the processes concerned ; |
| 15 | Doing so presumably gives a director complete control over the performances , but surely at the expense of the final result . |
| 16 | The median is attained by total control over the topics dubbed collateral ; the judiciary substitute their judgment on those aspects of the ‘ if X ’ question which are deemed jurisdictional . |
| 17 | Jack , to the savages , is known as ‘ Chief ’ and now has almost total control over the boys . |
| 18 | But there is also , I think , a more positive acceptance of the idea of an increasing rational control over the conditions of social life , which brings with it a recognition of the possibilities which now exist for effecting political changes by rational persuasion and legislation , but without ignoring the fact of substantial political conflict or lapsing into a utopian conception of social harmony . |
| 19 | Thus the new system may be an improvement but there is little evidence to support the view that the new committees exercise any real systematic control over the activities of government . |
| 20 | They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions . |
| 21 | This determination to prevent the manufacturers exploiting a sellers , market induced Self to ask Smith to stay on and establish a Contracts Department as a step towards firmer financial control over the engineers . |
| 22 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 23 | Royal control over the castellans of the Ile de France was relaxed by Eudes II of Blois , who created his own network of vassals among them ; in the same way , the dukes of Aquitaine attracted the lords of Parthenay to their court , though they were Angevin vassals . |
| 24 | His contract contained a clause granting him creative control over the films and a final say on editing , and a salary of over $1 million per film and 50 per cent of each film 's box-office revenue , a profit participation scale somewhat higher than the others ' . |
| 25 | In order to be an occupier a person had to have sufficient control over the premises . |
| 26 | The empirical evidence suggests , however , that the supervision which institutional investors exercise over the management of a company is minimal and can not be regarded as a sufficient control over the managers of large public companies . |