Example sentences of "[det] sort of control over " in BNC.

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1 The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation .
2 Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again .
3 She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats .
4 Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly .
5 planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy .
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