Example sentences of "control [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-transgenic brain RNA ( nTgB ) was used as a positive control for the endogenous mNF-H signal and negative control for transgene expression while SKNSH RNA as positive control for the human NF-L protected fragment and negative control for the mNF-H protected fragment . |
| 2 | The all-auto compact offers only one means of control through the DX film cassette coding . |
| 3 | For instance , the London Borough of Southwark remained under Labour control after the May 1982 local elections , but two-thirds of the Labour councillors were new , following ‘ de-selections ’ and defections to the newly formed Social Democratic Party . |
| 4 | But now Mr de Klerk has lost control of the South African Broadcasting Corporation . |
| 5 | The UK , despite opposition from Argentina , is in de facto control of the Falkland Islands , South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands , and has established an effective fisheries management programme for Falkland Islands waters . |
| 6 | ‘ Imperialists ’ , and in October 1964 , whilst Khrushchev was on holiday , Brezhnev took over effective control of the U.S.S.R. |
| 7 | Thereafter , the personal control of the Lord Steward over the running of the household was probably slender , since the post was often left unfilled . |
| 8 | Jordan was able to exercise considerable control of the West Bank 's agricultural economy through this Council . |
| 9 | Volcanotectonic faults that controlled the eruption pattern may also have influenced the subsequent fault control of the West Cumbrian Permo-Carboniferous basins . |
| 10 | If he got control of the West Bank and Gaza , he would soon turn on Israel proper . |
| 11 | Israel 's neighbours attacked her and eventually after lots of fighting Israel gained control of the West Bank . |
| 12 | So we have been watching a battle between rival establishments for control of the UK . |
| 13 | This means that many of the decisions which ultimately affect UK industry are outside the direct control of the UK government and in many areas of trade , negotiations are carried out on our behalf by the EC as a whole . |
| 14 | PRESIDENT REAGAN is weighing up a report which would hand control of the US 's weather and remote-sensing satellites to private enterprise . |
| 15 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 16 | Under the new organizational arrangements the French General Confederation of Labour ( CGT ) took control of the WFTU 's bureaucracy , which would be cut by three-quarters and reorganized into five regional offices . |
| 17 | Throughout his control of the Elmswell estate Best also kept a memorandum book , in which he recorded in a haphazard fashion things he wished to remember : the wages agreed with servants ; debts owed and owing ; the number of sheep in the shepherd 's care . |
| 18 | They had control of the Temple worship , sacrifices and finances . |
| 19 | Control of the Moscow soviet had been won by the Democratic Russia coalition of radical groups , with 281 of the 468 seats , and in Leningrad a similar grouping known as Democratic Elections " 90 had won 355 of the 400 seats [ see p. 37322 ] . |
| 20 | Having lost control of the Moscow city soviet the Moscow CPSU committee on April 15 terminated the arrangement whereby it published jointly with the city soviet the newspapers Moskovskaya Pravda and Vechernaya Moskva . |
| 21 | In 1978 , he persuaded the Senate to accept a treaty agreeing to hand over control of the Panama Canal to the state of Panama by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | We 've seen treaties on er nuclear disarmament , we 've seen treaties on control of the Panama canal in recent years . |
| 23 | Soon after the Persian Wars , as we saw on p. 23 , King Leotychidas of Sparta led an expedition to Thessaly , and ended the tageia of the Aleuads ; at about the same time , Plutarch says , there was a Greek , perhaps a Spartan , fleet at Pagasai , whose strategic importance we have just noticed , and the Spartans tried to get control of the Amphictyony ( see p. 33 ; Plut . |
| 24 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 25 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 26 | The local Soviet was under the firm control of the SRs . |
| 27 | By the end of the month he had re-established some contact with the main Front ; however , plans to reinforce the 2nd Shock were abruptly abandoned when Stalin was persuaded to disband the Volkhov Front entirely and place its troops under control of the Leningrad Front . |
| 28 | On the other hand , strength at sea would help displace the Portuguese who had gained control of the Indian Ocean a century earlier , and this would please the Emperor ; accordingly the East India Company armed its ships heavily enough to hold the sea against the Portuguese and against the local pirates . |
| 29 | Other troops would meanwhile attack Southsea Castle , gain control of the Spithead anchorage beyond it , and be landed at Gosport , the peninsula stretching into the Solent on the other side of Portsmouth . |
| 30 | The LDDC has taken control of the Docklands Light Railway from London Underground and has made some progress . |