Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [noun] [prep] control " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to see some kind of control scheme entailing the reliable and permanent marking of dogs for future identification . |
| 2 | I asked Roger how he managed to establish this kind of control , to reproduce with twenty or more disruptive pupils the semblance of a ‘ model ’ lesson . |
| 3 | The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary . |
| 4 | The state was forced to assume some measure of control over distribution of food and levels of profits , and thus intervene in the market . |
| 5 | The carriage had hardly halted in the Rectory drive before the door was torn open and the children came tumbling out with Mrs Chamberlin behind them vainly trying to exert some sort of control . |
| 6 | A court must be able to exercise some measure of control over the cases which are brought before it , to prevent injustice to either party and to ensure that the various issues can be fully and effectively dealt with . |
| 7 | This explains why the Commission wishes to exercise some degree of control over the freedom to subsidise . |
| 8 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 9 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 10 | Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly . |
| 11 | New guidelines on restraining young people , due next week , will call on social services to put more emphasis on control and discipline in children 's homes , and less on therapy . |
| 12 | This makes it vital for the pilot to be able to manage any loss of control due to stalling or spiralling without using them . |
| 13 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 14 | Firm training from puppyhood is necessary to keep these dogs under control . |
| 15 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 16 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 17 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 18 | ‘ We have got to get this ship under control . |
| 19 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 20 | She wanted to have some measure of control over her own productivity — which she could exercise by walking more quickly or slowly . |
| 21 | Whereas some researchers had treated women 's supportiveness as a straightforward sign of their socialisation into powerlessness and deference , or as signs of what Lakoff would term ‘ insecurity ’ or ‘ approval seeking ’ , Fishman considers supportiveness a creative and skilful strategy women use in order to have some kind of control in conversation with men . |
| 22 | The great theme of the advocates of constitutionalism , in contrast either to the theorists of utopianism , or of absolutism , of the right or of the left , has been the frank acknowledgment of the role of government in society , linked with the determination to bring that government under control and to place limits on the exercise of its power . |
| 23 | United were on top but it was a scrappy game , full of fouls as both sides tried to gain some sort of control ; one touch football as I say , a lot of misplaced passes and a lot of fouls , although United had a chance in the fifteenth minute when Martin Foyle almost headed home Paul Simpson 's cross from the right at the near post . |