Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for control [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Moreover , the struggle for control of what little surplus was produced gave rise to various forms of bonded labour which created further barriers to economic development . |
| 3 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 4 | Opinions on a whole range of theoretical issues were polarized in ways that can be related to positions taken up in the struggle for control of the social framework of science . |
| 5 | The Gulf war could be described as the struggle for control of the post-cold war world order — a bid to retain American leadership , to establish a form of political regulation of the post-Fordist world economy that retains the Fordist political institutions . |
| 6 | In the background , the fight for control of L Detachment was still rumbling on . |
| 7 | If that is true , Mr Robertson 's proposal can be seen as part of a grander drama : the battle for control of the Forest Service 's soul . |
| 8 | This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party , as rival factions take up distinctive stances . |
| 9 | Some of the fiercest fighting in 14 years of civil war took place during February and March 1990 in the battle for control of the south-eastern town of Mavinga , held by the South African-backed Uniao Naçional para a Indepêndencia Total de Angola ( UNITA ) . |
| 10 | The battle for control of the territory , although short , was brutal ; press reports detailed a number of massacres and atrocities . |
| 11 | The collapse of the ceasefire agreement reached in Gbadolite ( Zaire ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] was followed by a period of intense fighting between the MPLA-PT government and UNITA in the first half of 1990 , centred on the battle for control of Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base near its Jamba headquarters in the south-east of the country . |
| 12 | In the battle for control of House of Fraser , both Lonrho and the Al Fayed brothers have tried to use the press . |
| 13 | The Battle for Control of 3cm H2S |
| 14 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 15 | Moscow 's foreign-exchange market has taken a dim view of the liberals ' chances of winning a decisive battle in the war for control of Russia 's economic policy . |
| 16 | A third set of dilemmas revolves around the question of how greater consumer choice can be reconciled with the need for controls over the total growth of services to prevent an expenditure explosion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The need for control of computers was well anticipated by the Lindop committee in the 1970s . |
| 19 | The procedure for control of State aids is set out in Article 93 . |
| 20 | The presidential address was upstaged by struggles earlier in the day for control of the two congressional chambers wherein no single party had an overall majority . |
| 21 | The demand for control of our landscapes , or environment , in order to preserve or create pleasant amenities has been due to the work of many people organised in groups . |
| 22 | Although these patients may have used bronchodilators intermittently in the past for control of asthma , none required them during the week before endoscopy . |
| 23 | The efficiency of the combined enterprise in concluded take-overs as compared with the pre-merger performance of the target and the acquirer is of crucial importance in evaluating the merits of reliance on the market for control as a disciplinary mechanism . |
| 24 | As just suggested , take-overs may lead to increased market dominance and hence the consequences of the market for control on competition must also be taken into account in any overall assessment . |
| 25 | As we have seen , market theorists regard the threat of take-over as the main contribution of the market for control to the promotion of efficiency . |
| 26 | No conclusive view about the contribution of the market for control to management short- termism is , at least as yet , possible . |
| 27 | Since it is the threat of take-over that is crucial it is not possible to measure the effects of the market for control in any very scientific way , but there is nevertheless an intuitive plausibility in some of the claims made for it . |