Example sentences of "[prep] control [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With a hardware.intensive approach this level of control sophistication is not usually available and the control circuit generates an approximation to the optimal operating condition , e.g. the acceleration/deceleration velocity profiles are approximated by linear ramp functions .
2 A number of general.purpose Stepping motor controllers often in the form of MSI integrated circuits are now available and provide various levels of control Sophistication ( Sigma Instruments , 1980 ) .
3 The latter type of control system thus retains the skill of the craftsman , does not interpose a technician into the work process , and thus does not fragment and de-skill the task .
4 Research on the subject of control system design using H- infinity methods has been supported in academia by SERC since 1984 .
5 With both Queen and loader in shot , hanging on wires not seen , the number of control crew during the five-day shoot of this sequence alone was obviously large but no accidents occurred .
6 The span of control concept has implications for the ‘ shape ’ of an organisation .
7 According to Geary ( 1985 ) this history went through five distinct phases , each characterised by its own dominant form of disorder by strikers and preferred type of control tactic by the police or military .
8 The simplest transfer of control instruction is , of course , the unconditional jump or unconditional branch , after the execution of which the next instruction is taken from the store address specified in the jump instruction .
9 Another is the amount of control Sun would want to exercise over future technology .
10 The advantage of using a switch which is either completely off or completely on over any form of variable resistance as in linear supplies , is that no power is dissipated in this sort of control element , whatever the load requirements are or whatever the voltage developed across the switch happens to be .
11 I would like to see some kind of control scheme entailing the reliable and permanent marking of dogs for future identification .
12 The aim of the remaining Chapters , therefore , is to show that system performance can be maximised and costs minimised by correct choice of control scheme and interfacing technique .
13 The drivers and utilities supplied with the Laserwave Plus install into Windows 3.1 ( or Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions ) with no fuss — you don' even have to open the DRIVERS section of Control Panel to do the job , as there is an automatic install routine that does it all for you .
14 You know I mean because all the people that have come to show support and er solidarity have done it er I mean we 've been very aware you know the quarry men have actually said you know no we do n't want you to actually block the land rovers we do it our own way and erm you know there 's been no out of control mass picketing or violence or anything like that .
15 We can get some sort of control reference by comparing figures for fatalities and serious injuries ( all of which would be reported ) during commuting hours ( when drivers are most likely to be sober ) with those during weekend nights .
16 Precise classification of control type itself then also becomes less important , and attention can be shifted to more fruitful enquiries about the source , scope , and intensity of the factors that constrain management power .
17 Examples of change of control provision are commonly found in software licences and contracts to supply Government departments such as the Ministry of Defence .
18 A different form of control liability will , however , apply if the dominant undertaking — whether or not a shareholder — has formalised its relationship with the public company concerned by a control contract which provides for it to manage the company and in which it offers the minority shareholders a buy-out or , at the shareholders ' option , to pay them an annual protected dividend .
19 Added next year will be the Sybase Navigation Server , OmniSQL Gateway , Replication Server , and a number of Control Server products .
20 This will be investigated to see whether this is an optimism bias in which individuals perceive they are less vulnerable than other people to negative life events or whether this is an illusion of control bias which people overestimate their own abilities .
21 With the increasing complexity of control information many organizations have devised a formal Management Information System ( MIS ) to cope with this problem .
22 Kornhauser ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the main tenets of control theory are to be found in the ideas of the pioneers of sociological criminology — the sociologists of the Chicago school , working in the early decades of this century ( Thrasher , 1927 ; Shaw , 1929 ) .
23 In Hirschi 's version of control theory people conform because they perceive benefits in doing so , and fear losing them .
24 Their approaches have been included under the general category of ‘ administrative criminology ’ ( see Young , 1986 ) , or seen as varieties of control theory ( Downes and Rock , 1982 ) .
25 Hirschi and Gottfredson ( 1986 ) have made a useful distinction between these two branches of control theory : the situational approaches constitute explanations of crime , while the original control theory is an explanation of criminality .
26 The science of adjusting these coefficients goes by the name of control theory .
27 Siddall ( 1982 ) describes in detail several methods of control theory , with examples and implementations in Fortran .
28 Advocates of control theory press for increased prices , fewer outlets for drink and restrictions or bans on advertising .
29 If progress is unduly delayed by failing to agree on sufficiently ‘ pure ’ definitions , then the systems thinking can be tempered by using such devices as the hierarchy of control model ( as covered on pages 81 to 83 of Chapter 6 ) .
30 Concentrations of reduced and oxidised forms of glutathione in the gastric mucosa of control rat stomachs were 1.49 ( 0.11 ) µg/g tissue and 5.4 ( 4.4 ) ng/g tissue respectively .
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