Example sentences of "control over [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even plants which were well grown , and vigorous to start with , are unlikely to do well after such treatment , and unfortunately the mail-order nurseries have no control over postal treatment or delays . |
| 2 | Taking up the issue of the social basis of the so-called new class , Giddens points out that there is a fundamental difference between control over collective property and rights of disposal enjoyed by owners of private property in capitalist society . |
| 3 | This includes control over new housing and industry , or arbitration between urban expansion and rural conservation . |
| 4 | In the following years discussions continued between the officers at the Boards and at headquarters in an attempt to sort out a practical level of detail which preserved the Authority 's control over general policy and coordination , while reserving clearly local matters to the Area Boards . |
| 5 | It clearly felt that the police authority should have no control over general policy or the operational side of police work . |
| 6 | This has been combined with such measures as the privatization of local housing and other services , central control over local spending and revenue , and forcing local authority direct labour organizations into the market place . |
| 7 | In this case , only the Secretary of State stands in the way of a move to decentralise control over local spending and to return it to local communities . |
| 8 | In such a situation the head office 's necessary lack of insight into the dynamics of the individual businesses is compounded by its over-reliance on the major formally rational means of control over local management and assessment of business prospects — that is , dependence upon financial calculations and accounting techniques premised on the divisional form . |
| 9 | Local political elites , although originally intended to represent the interests of the central government within their area , appeared increasingly to resent their limited control over local appointment and investment decisions and were increasingly willing to employ ‘ nationalist ’ arguments as a means of increasing their leverage upon the central authorities in this connection . |
| 10 | Firstly , homosexual conduct , although no longer subjected to criminal penalties , except when it occurred in clearly defined public circumstances , would continue to be viewed as morally reprehensible ; and secondly , the move did not imply a relaxation of control over homosexual behaviour or was not intended by its main supporters to imply such a relaxation of control . |
| 11 | Gray and Jenkins ( 1984 , p. 425 ) point to intraorganizational tensions created by the FMI : for example , between service departments on the one hand and the Treasury ( and formerly also the Management and Personnel Office ) on the other , with the latter fearing loss of control over departmental expenditure and manpower . |
| 12 | Britain 's growing dependence on American economic aid in the form of Lend-Lease was also leading to a disturbing degree of American control over British gold and dollar reserves . |
| 13 | However , the Treasury is known to be resisting this plan , because without a strict cash limit its control over public spending and manpower planning would be weakened . |