Example sentences of "[prep] control over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when industries were not state owned there were various other instruments by which government actually exercised a large measure of control over the private sector . |
| 2 | This would deprive party bosses of control over the election . |
| 3 | In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed . |
| 4 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 5 | Collegiality in this form is still predicated upon the idea of control over the organisation . |
| 6 | In terms of day-to-day influence over policy or even in terms of control over the executive , its powers are risible . |
| 7 | Roxborough criticises the standard account of the Mexican labour movement , for its one-sided emphasis on the aspect of control over the rank and file ( Roxborough 1984 ) . |
| 8 | The second priority will be the division of your holding into a number of main blocks , depending upon your acreage , to give you a measure of control over the grazing of your pastures , to separate groups of stock ( e.g. rams from ewes ) , and to shut off fields for hay or arable crops . |
| 9 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 10 | However , as with other renewables the lack of control over the matching of electrical output to demand is a disadvantage . |
| 11 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 12 | LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks . |
| 13 | The need for properly enforceable means of control over the supervision and maintenance of reservoirs becomes increasingly urgent . ’ |
| 14 | It is generally believed today that hyperinflations can be avoided by the maintenance of a reasonable degree of control over the supply of money . |
| 15 | Certainly , the Parliament of the United Kingdom has a number of other functions and one of these , the exercise of control over the Executive , is of fundamental importance to the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | The secondary ( vertical ) line is used to fire the shutter and also exercises a measure of control over the kite train . |
| 17 | Among the various characteristics of these technologies which Blauner identifies we highlight three here : the changing skill requirements , the worker 's sense of control over the work process , and changes in the meaningfulness of work — these last two characteristics being , to a very large extent , a product of the social relationships which the worker has with management and the end-user of the product being made . |
| 18 | In both craft and continuous-flow production the worker has a sense of control over the work process , claims Blauner . |
| 19 | Despite the well-founded fear of the Securitate , for most of the period of Communist rule in Romania , the secret police was not in the front-line of control over the population . |
| 20 | This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said . |
| 21 | In addition to imitation , there are a number of other procedures designed to give the teacher or therapist some degree of control over the child 's language production . |
| 22 | you may gain a sense of control over the ways in which HIV could affect you , your partner and your family |
| 23 | If they were both to preserve a measure of control over the wage structure in a capitalist economy and to win adequate state pensions for their members , then a retirement condition was inevitable . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile . |
| 26 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 27 | The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done . |
| 28 | To hypothesize , it was as if the king of France held the earldom of Cornwall or Lancaster from the king of England , who could therefore exert some degree of control over the foreign policy and behaviour of the king of France . |
| 29 | This explains why the Commission wishes to exercise some degree of control over the freedom to subsidise . |
| 30 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |