Example sentences of "control over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever happens , family control over a newspaper that Punch 's grandfather , Adolph Ochs , bought in 1896 will be sustained . |
| 2 | You do n't have the same control over a bike when you 're speeding . |
| 3 | Difficulty may also be experienced in obtaining reliable accounting information and thus in establishing control over a company 's activities . |
| 4 | One result of this constant paradox is that while the police make statements welcoming research and applaud intellectual debate , they strive to impose rigid control over a system of preferred rules and regulations to negate open enquiry , so that systems are quietly but firmly deployed to deny the critical approach — as we shall see . |
| 5 | The General Medical Services Committee 's working party seems to have been unconcerned about how the public and politicians might view its proposals — otherwise it would not have proposed to increase professional control over a system already under challenge for partiality , lack of openness , and professional control . |
| 6 | This last feature is quite a nice touch , because it would enable control over a mono mix of your amp 's signal for monitoring purposes . |
| 7 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 8 | But this did little to consolidate control over a country claimed but not subdued and when Duke Philip of Burgundy broke from his alliance with the English to pledge support for Charles VII at Arras in 1435 , the days of English rule in France were numbered . |
| 9 | Front running involves a broker/dealer using his control over a customer 's order to deal ahead of that order for his own benefit . |
| 10 | He was no good at games — " more long than stop " as he once remarked to my cricket-loving sons — but early on had remarkable control over a bicycle and later in life showed aptitude for skiing in spite of his great length of leg — and he was a beautiful ballroom dancer . |
| 11 | I mean for example hospitals and nursing homes , we have a purely tenuous control over , whereas we have a very rigid control over a signal box on a railway . |
| 12 | The Administration , moreover , while having the greatest influence in both judicial and church appointments , had sole control over a number of academic posts , which were also attractive to some of the freeholders , several of whom succeeded in obtaining university chairs . |
| 13 | This can be viewed as a fairly powerful mechanism for exerting control over a number , if not all pupils , in a situation where few sanctions exist . |
| 14 | Such a council would benefit social work like nothing else : it is important that the public ( and the press ) knows there is regulatory control over a group of people who ( quite rightly ) hold substantial powers over some groups and who have a great influence over others . |
| 15 | It has nothing in common with cases in which a particular producer , by acquiring monopoly control over a resource , is able to maintain his position as sole source of supply indefinitely . |
| 16 | First , there is the early Marxist approach of Ian Taylor which emphasises that hooligan behaviour is a symbolic attempt by working-class fans to restore some control over a game which they feel increasingly alienated from . |
| 17 | After September 1938 the Club had control over a section of Tribune , the weekly paper supporting the Unity Campaign . |
| 18 | By a two-to-one vote , a good teacher is seen as someone who has control over a class . |
| 19 | It was in this period too that a club 's control over a player was first challenged in the law courts . |
| 20 | You do n't have the same control over a car |