Example sentences of "[adj] control [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the positive aspects of the social control of the villages were the negative . |
| 2 | Social control of the streets , not crime control , was the major historically derived police function when these officers were recruited through the Everton Police Training School . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One method may be through variations in government expenditure and taxation since these flows are under the direct control of the authorities . |
| 5 | But both these target variables are also influenced by variables outside the direct control of the authorities . |
| 6 | The resources within the enterprise are under the direct control of the managers of the enterprise . |
| 7 | I was therefore left to dodge the fighter by very rough usage of the throttles , and shameful longitudinal control of the elevators . |
| 8 | The whole production process is under the careful control of the inspectors of the Madeira Wine Institute , the official regulating body for all matters concerning madeira wine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sadly , for a number of reasons , Parliament was unable to exercise adequate control over the contents of the Bill . |
| 11 | The former necessarily put the experts above the masses , while the latter calls for popular control of the bureaucrats through election ; the former espouses elitism while the latter egalitarianism ; the former restricts opportunities while the latter opens them . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This can only be done successfully through central control of the resources . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But at least there is some form of official control over the films children see in cinemas . |
| 17 | At a strained board meeting held on 18 June , four days before take-off , Douglas Paul 's report on the reservations situation was read out and it was agreed that Fields should leave the Woodstock Street offices immediately and relinquish personal control of the reservations . |
| 18 | The DVR Company currently leases the Buckfastleigh line to the South Devon Railway Trust at a peppercorn rent , but has overall control of the revenues from the cafe and bookshop as well as rents from the Butterfly Centre and Otter Sanctuary previously developed by them . |
| 19 | Hugman outlines and rejects the possibility of a shift towards greater autonomous control by the workers of their occupation , a movement towards professionalization , and he considers the alternative of proletarianization . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It therefore becomes imperative to ask : what are the existing mechanisms of democratic control over the police , and how effective are they ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Thinking of the almost natural way in which particularly young middle-class girls , but by no means only they , repressed all behaviour and thoughts concerning sex , one could say , that in many respects the preceding middle-class generations had to restrain their sexual — and possibly other — urges and inclinations , because these controls functioned quite blindly , beyond the conscious control of the individuals concerned … . |
| 26 | She nevertheless keeps a tight control on the products , the shop displays , training and the operating style of the shops . |
| 27 | Although the practical reasons for the rule ( difficulty in getting access to Parliamentary materials and the cost and delay in researching it ) are not without substance , they can be greatly exaggerated : experience in Commonwealth countries which have abandoned the rule does not suggest that the drawbacks are substantial , provided that the court keeps a tight control on the circumstances in which references to Parliamentary material are allowed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The net result was that Parliamentary control over the terms of the Bill was less than adequate . |
| 30 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |