Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] control over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major bloc-based classification reflects the economic , political and cultural-ideological struggle between capitalism and communism for control over the global system . |
| 2 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper . |
| 4 | The report continues with a list of cases in which disputes over fixtures in listed building led to a public enquiry , a court case , or both and concludes with a section entitled ‘ How to make the legislation more effective ’ , which provides advice to owners , information on Stop Notices and calls for control over the sale of fixtures . |
| 5 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 6 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 7 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 8 | So whatever the numerical distribution of jobs or of unemployment , the tentacles of control over those jobs , and over the functioning of the economy as a whole , in the main lead back — if they stay within Britain at all — to London . |
| 9 | Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem . |
| 10 | Loss of control over events . |
| 11 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
| 12 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 13 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Economic decline has been presented as one of the causes of the weakening of the power of the state bureaucracy and its loss of control over its powerful provincial magnates . |
| 16 | Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 . |
| 17 | But the price of obtaining the destruction of working-class power and organization was a loss of control over the state by the bourgeoisie and nobility . |
| 18 | In another factory , this time a machine shop , managers were divided on whether to allow shop-floor workers some aspects of control over setting computerised tools . |
| 19 | For a variety of reasons Stalin rejected a ‘ Finnish ’ solution in Eastern Europe in preference to a security formula based on ideological conformity and the maintenance of control over these countries ' internal as well as external policies . |
| 20 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |
| 21 | Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets . |
| 22 | In this way the illusion of control over the ‘ sinister pluralisation ’ was established . |
| 23 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |
| 24 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 25 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 26 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 27 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 28 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 29 | Running under Digital Research 's GEM environment it provides an almost uncanny level of control over both simple and compound documents . |
| 30 | It gives you a level of control over the configuration that is cleaner and quicker than anything DR-DOS offers in its question and answer CONFIG.SYS functionality . |