Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] control " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yet with the right kind of controls , and the development of proper management for the species , the caiman could be conserved and still create income for local people and foreign exchange for the government . ’ |
| 2 | A site was sought for a garage , but before the matter could be taken further , there came news of a possible change in control of the company and things were left in abeyance for the time being . |
| 3 | In Natal , fighting between rival political groups for control of townships around Pietermaritzburg and Durban grew more intense , with more than 100 people being reported killed up to mid-February . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the house of Foix-Béarn emerged as the neighbouring territorial power with the greatest measure of control over Bigorre and the important Pyrenean passes which lay within its boundaries . |
| 5 | An examination of the parenting arrangements following loss of mother showed that indifference and a low level of control had characterised the childhood experiences of a number of the women found to be depressed . |
| 6 | Positive transfer was , however , observed by Mackintosh and Holgate and by Siegel , the comparison being made in each case with control subjects that received initial training on a discrimination between stimuli other than those that were relevant in the transfer task but with the latter stimuli being present but irrelevant . |
| 7 | Collegial forms of control ( such as the British Cabinet ) have generally been displaced by the monocratic dominance of a single premier ( Benn , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | The 20-page revised document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Children 's Residential Care , describes forms of permissible restraint , including holding a child 's arm or holding the child against a wall , but says such force should never be used punitively and should reflect the needs of individual situations . |
| 9 | At the launch of the document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Residential Care , Tim Yeo , junior health minister , explained it was not a reference manual giving explicit directions for care workers . |
| 10 | Hierarchical forms of control , the dominant feature of organizational life , exist according to Downs ( 1967 ) because conflicts of interest between people performing different tasks prevent spontaneous co-ordination . |
| 11 | Finally , before leaving the harmful insects , mention must be made of horrid little blighters that for long were regarded as exceptions to the normal methods of control . |
| 12 | More than anything , she remembered her feeling of helplessness , the total loss of control , as Joe had dragged her along toward the station . |
| 13 | Workers under this arrangement required much communication with management and close supervision , and hence rather narrow spans of control and a long managerial hierarchy . |
| 14 | Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control . |
| 15 | A number of possible influences on control and methods for measuring each were identified ( table I ) . |
| 16 | Such people may remain frightened , consciously or unconsciously , of the strength of their anger and possible loss of control . |
| 17 | The Labour government lost office in 1951 , however , to be replaced by a Conservative one , and with this change came a different approach to economic policy which included the revival of monetary methods of control — in particular the manipulation of bank rate and associated interest rates . |
| 18 | Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy . |
| 19 | How can anybody when there is complete loss of control ? |
| 20 | On the basis that prevention is better than cure , retrospective methods of control should be seen as having a secondary , although not unimportant , role . |
| 21 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 22 | The state was forced to assume some measure of control over distribution of food and levels of profits , and thus intervene in the market . |
| 23 | Except for MIND most of the voluntary groups , such as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and SANE , have expressed more positive enthusiasm for some measure of control , concerned that community care is too often an unfulfilled ideal that can become an impossible burden on relatives . |
| 24 | The military involvement of England in continental war meant an unusually high concern for achieving and maintaining some measure of control of the sea . |
| 25 | A court must be able to exercise some measure of control over the cases which are brought before it , to prevent injustice to either party and to ensure that the various issues can be fully and effectively dealt with . |
| 26 | Other authors give a micro perspective , from the community level ; Hester van der Walt and Janet Pelly give examples of efforts to allow given populations some measure of control over local health services . |
| 27 | Many writers in this issue and many community health workers in general would readily admit the importance of the political setting of health care and the importance of the political will of states to encourage/allow their citizens some measure of control over their health , another constant factor in this question of control . |
| 28 | Removal and burning of diseased leaves gives some measure of control . |
| 29 | Fourth , the holder of a floating charge will have some measure of control over the company even without taking any steps to enforce it . |
| 30 | She wanted to have some measure of control over her own productivity — which she could exercise by walking more quickly or slowly . |