Example sentences of "of control [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Methods of control under consideration on Wednesday were shooting , the use of narcotics or trapping . |
| 2 | Thousands of fires raged out of control across Amazonia . |
| 3 | Mr Dewar added : ‘ It is a simple revenue raid to compensate for a public sector borrowing requirement spiralling out of control to £50 billion . |
| 4 | In response to these general changes many local housing authorities are pursuing innovative ways of attracting private finance , often coupled with a devolution of control to tenants ' groups . |
| 5 | Neither the SOC forces nor the guerrilla forces made significant gains in terms of control of territory during August ; the SOC forces on the whole maintained their positions , while the guerrillas continued to launch attacks and hold positions for a few hours before retreating . |
| 6 | Where there is a system of control of council matters through caucus groups of members of the council , these groups determine beforehand what line of action shall be taken by the members of those groups when matters come before the council and its committees . |
| 7 | None of them are completely satisfactory because of the problem of control of ability and opportunity in the different settings . |
| 8 | Not that Stevenson has any immediate intention to cede the reins of control of EWM — he 's still enjoying his work too much . |
| 9 | The same arguments , and others which we will come across in the case studies , have been used in favour of control of broadcasting . |
| 10 | As was reported in Update 2 ( November 1988 ) , this transfer of quality assurance by the appointment of External Course Assessors and retention of control of course content by SCOTVEC is in line with the Council 's policy of gradually devolving more responsibility to colleges . |
| 11 | Obviously one of the unique features of natural language indexing is the lack of control of vocabulary . |
| 12 | The inquiry said the deferment of projects involving large capital expenditure , frequency of reorganisation within BR , and lack of control of projects did not stem from any individual 's decision , but ‘ from the way in which the railway has come to do things . ’ |
| 13 | The issue of control of land use remained more contentious ; a White Paper on the control of land use was shelved by the coalition government and not dealt with until the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 under the post-war Labour administration . |
| 14 | But the problem of control of poliomyelitis is now one of social organization and , until new strains and new viruses appear , not principally one of medical discovery . |
| 15 | The period of opposition was almost comically short and its brevity showed how far events in Northern Ireland had passed out of control of Stormont . |
| 16 | The development of these powerful new means of communication and the accompanying development of personnel highly skilled in them has expanded the means of control of information as well as its dissemination . |
| 17 | In the civil service the prevailing ethos is one of control of subordinates rather than allowing discretion . |
| 18 | I have had gill flukes ( not personally ! ) and my fish did n't scratch ; they acted as if they were being poisoned ( heightened colour , loss of control of movement ) , possibly because of oxygen depletion due to gill damage . |
| 19 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | ‘ All the attention Shane has been receiving from the media is very flattering , but it 's getting a bit out of control with phone calls at 5.00am , ’ said coach Bob Simpson . |
| 21 | It is interesting to find , therefore , that in certain systems there has evolved a tighter and more centralised system of control with curriculum units established and housed within ministries of education . |
| 22 | State President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who is also the patron-in-chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan , in awarding gold medals said , ‘ Cricket , to borrow someone 's words , is a subcontinental game accidentally invented by the British ! |
| 23 | Playing for Old Anandians against Rio Sports Club at the Ananda College ground , schoolboy Anjana Jayasuriya scored 339 , the highest-ever score in any tournament under the aegis of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka . |
| 24 | SLR have recently entered into a contract with MCC to electrify the main scoreboard at Lord 's , and they are about to send electrical units to Karachi for the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan . |
| 25 | Former Chief Justice of Pakistan ; founder-member , Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan ( 1948 ) ; BCCP vice-president 1948–53 ; honorary life member of MCC . |
| 26 | Those often cut their engines and drift out of control off Muckle Flugga , possibly to save fuel . |
| 27 | OIL TANKERS may have to follow a one-way system where the tanker , Braer , went out of control off Shetland , under plans drawn up by the Department of Transport . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary . |
| 30 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |