Example sentences of "over which [pers pn] have no control " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1917 they were ‘ caught up in great events over which they had no control . ’ |
| 2 | Some practitioners whose practices were too small to qualify for the scheme felt bitter , excluded , and frustrated that their patients were being disadvantaged by a system over which they had no control . |
| 3 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
| 4 | Most of their neighbours have children , and because all the space around them is spare , it is space over which they have no control , and therefore ca n't use . |
| 5 | But to what extent are the sentencing ( and other ) practices of these courts responsible for the crisis , in the sense that they could choose to do otherwise , rather than being the victims of external factors ( such as the crime rate ) over which they have no control ? |
| 6 | On the other hand it is equally important not to minimize the effects of sentencing practice on penal policy by assuming that the courts are at the mercy of pressures over which they have no control , and to which they can only passively respond . |
| 7 | Like most of the professionals , they believe that sport and politics should not be mixed and that they are victims of a situation over which they have no control . |
| 8 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 9 | And this is what I meant when I said circumstances outside the school over which we have no control , they have no control … |
| 10 | ‘ Britain will suffer economically , will be isolated from Europe , and the rest of Europe will go ahead in some shape or form , taking decisions which affect us intimately and over which we have no control . |
| 11 | This commitment grew out of profound emotional changes over which he had no control , and of which he himself perhaps had only an imperfect knowledge . |
| 12 | What is beyond the boundaries of his own home ground is an outside world composed of impersonal structures and processes over which he has no control , of if he does have some control , it is only by virtue of some formal authority vested in an office that he occupies . |
| 13 | There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ? |
| 14 | This was , she knew , thinking back to what the astrologer had said all that time ago in London , the blaze that had been ignited and over which she had no control . |
| 15 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 16 | She wants to know whether she was judged on the piece of sculpture itself ; and if so is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art ? or was she judged on her talent ; if so , is it right that she should be judged on a part of life over which she has no control ? |
| 17 | He said : ‘ There are things that happen in life over which you have no control . |
| 18 | That was in Frankfurt when a meeting over which I had no control went on just too long and I had no chance of making my flight . |
| 19 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 20 | That it is over something over which I have no control . |
| 21 | Either Jordan would completely eliminate its influence , as seemed likely following the 1970–1 war in Jordan , or the West Bank élite might fill the leadership vacuum , or a local national liberation movement might develop over which it had no control . |
| 22 | Like John Hughlings Jackson , with his Perceptual Release Theory discussed in the context of hypnagogic hallucinations , they argue that dreaming is the outcome of the cortical integration of sensory inputs over which it has no control . |