Example sentences of "[prep] control over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 2 | The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary . |
| 3 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |
| 4 | Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation . |
| 5 | Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts . |
| 6 | In summary then , the method of control over businesses offering investment advice is one whereby Parliament through the Financial Services Act has delegated power to the Secretary of State who has in turn delegated most of his rule-making responsibilities to the SIB . |
| 7 | Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem . |
| 8 | However , most countries still retained some degree of control over capital account transactions , mainly because the volatile nature of capital flows was thought to present potential problems for the stability of their exchange rates . |
| 9 | Several factors point to the differences in the experience of unemployment : women 's position in the labour market and access to occupational benefits ; their domestic roles and the dominant familial ideology ; their lack of control over household resources ; their problematic identification with the ‘ unemployed status ’ ; and their treatment by the DSS , Jobcentres , the Benefits Agency , Training and Enterprise Councils and the Training , Enterprise and Employment Directorate of the Department of Employment . |
| 10 | Lord Denning observed : ‘ In the OLA 1957 the word occupier is used [ as ] … a convenient word to denote a person who had a sufficient degree of control over premises to put him under a duty of care towards those who came lawfully on to the premises . ’ |
| 11 | Lord Denning stated : Wherever a person has a sufficient degree of control over premises that he ought to realise that any failure on his part to use care may result in injury to a person coming lawfully there , then he is an occupier and the person coming lawfully there is his visitor . |
| 12 | Their agreement was the first based on profit-sharing as well as retention of copyright , which gave him a large measure of control over publication and future working of the copyrights . |
| 13 | Fourth , ‘ and most importantly there were four practical reasons for the general extension of control over demolition : |
| 14 | Performance requirements have commonly increased , indicating countries ' determination to retain a degree of control over firms ; liberalisation does not mean laissez-faire . |
| 15 | Alternatively , for those who regard this definition as too restrictive — particularly in its implicit overtones of stability , regularity and mutual accommodation between the parties — the central core of the subject is the ‘ study of the process of control over work relations ’ ( Hyman , 1975 , p. 12 ) . |
| 16 | Martin Patchen , in a study of 834 US government employees found that the factor of control over work methods consistently emerged as most closely associated with high job motivation . |
| 17 | Thus , a study ( Korpi , 1978 , p. 332 ) of the unions and politics in Sweden concluded that , with the strengthening of their collective power base the levels of aspiration of wage-earners are likely to increase ( in a political sense ) , ‘ extending to issues of control over work and production ’ ; while another study ( Gallie , 1978 , p. 299 ) brought out important differences between British and French workers in their attitudes to the present system of industrial production , with the latter taking a much more political view : |
| 18 | Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income . |
| 19 | The main advantage of elicitation procedures is that they give a relatively high degree of control over areas of linguistic ability which are being assessed . |
| 20 | The broader ranks of managerial and professional employees have a degree of autonomy in their work , a degree of decision-making responsibility , and a certain amount of control over others . |
| 21 | The weakness of shareholder control results , in short , from the ‘ logic of collective action ’ : while the shareholders as a group would benefit if their rights of control over management were exercised , it is rational for the members individually to remain passive . |
| 22 | Whether this has serious implications for the efficiency of large companies depends on the effectiveness of other forms of control over management , and on the prior question of the intensity of non-profit motivations . |
| 23 | They had wanted an updating of canon law , a reassertion of control over Church organizations , the declaration of Mary 's Assumption ( perhaps as a sop to the pope ) , and a firm condemnation of nascent ecumenism and what they saw as a new outbreak of modernism . |
| 24 | There are two parallel statutory systems of control over Church of England churches : the Church 's system , and the secular system . |
| 25 | It is not the uncontrollable event , however , which is crucial as a determinant of depression but the expectation of a lack of control over stress which is argued to be a sufficient condition for depression ( Seligman , 1975 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 28 | Agencies are not , however , without various strategies of control over field staff ( ch. 4 , s. ii ) . |
| 29 | A final source of control over field staff stems from the supervisor 's dependence upon the officer as gatekeeper — as supplier of reports and opinions . |
| 30 | The orthodox account points to the following factors as implicated in the crisis : ( 1 ) the high prison population ( or ‘ numbers crisis , ) ; ( 2 ) overcrowding ; ( 3 ) bad conditions within prison ( for both inmates and prison officers ) ; ( 4 ) understaffing ; ( 5 ) unrest among the staff ; ( 6 ) poor security ; ( 7 ) the ‘ toxic mix ’ of life sentence prisoners , politically motivated prisoners and mentally disturbed inmates ; ( 9 ) riots and other breakdowns of control over prisoners . |