Example sentences of "[noun] in control [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the industrialists given peerages by Mrs ( oops , sorry , Baroness ) Thatcher during her 11 years in control of the system , seven out of ten were from private sector companies which had donated to the Conservative Party . |
| 2 | Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind and his German counterpart Volker Ruehe denied the new proposals meant the west would leave the Bosnian Serbs in control of the territory they have seized . |
| 3 | The local authority served two notices on 1 June and 28 October 1983 , under section 9 of the Housing Act 1957 , as amended , requiring the defendant , as the person in control of the property , to effect repairs . |
| 4 | The local authority were empowered to do the work themselves by section 10(1) of the Act of 1957 which provided that if the person in control of the house did not comply with a notice to execute work then after specified periods of time ‘ the local authority may themselves do the work required to be done by the notice … |
| 5 | This does not give the impression of a Mercian king in control of the south-eastern provinces from the mid-760s . |
| 6 | As Earnest Kurtz argues in " Not-God " ( published by Hazelden ) , which gives the history of Alcoholics Anonymous , the process of recovery is essentially the recognition that one is not one 's self in control of the Universe , nor even of much of one 's own life , and that one is therefore Not God and nor are the mood-altering chemicals and behaviours that one previously " worshipped " . |
| 7 | A site was sought for a garage , but before the matter could be taken further , there came news of a possible change in control of the company and things were left in abeyance for the time being . |
| 8 | Of any change in control of the business , its organization of management , or persons holding shares in the company which causes a change in the control of the company ( by letter ) . |
| 9 | The 25-year-old rock star , who says people are being murdered in the name of God , adds : ‘ People in control of the world are evil and perpetuating evil . |
| 10 | He put Mary in control of the palatial establishment in New York . |
| 11 | He succeeded Pym in control of the ordnance , and was thanked by the House for deciphering intercepted letters . |
| 12 | It would be his hand in control of the sporting codes which rule Grand Prix racing , and he would reign over all the other major single-seater racing series , the International F3000 Championship , the World Sportscar Championship and the World Rally Championship . |
| 13 | It was held that he was properly indicted with stealing from the company because a person or company in control of the site is deemed prima facie to have control over things on the land . |
| 14 | The voyeur , in controlling the gaze , is to some extent in control of the action before his eyes , especially if the action relates to a supposedly inferior or primitive civilisation . |
| 15 | The link with parliamentary politics was effective in both directions , however , and a collector who openly opposed the political interest of the politician in control of the parliamentary seat was unlikely to retain his own position beyond the next meeting of the commission of supply , unless of course the political interest in power was about to be destroyed . |
| 16 | In 1774–80 for every British seaman who lost his life in battle , fifteen died of disease , while in 1779 Britain was preserved from invasion partly by the scurvy which swept the French and Spanish squadrons then for a time in control of the Channel . |
| 17 | For , as we shall see , political practice and behaviour at the local level can vary widely , even with the same party in control of the council chamber . |
| 18 | The party in control of the governorship would , therefore , exercise considerable influence on the redrawing of the state 's congressional district boundaries for the next decade , a process which could affect the outcome for five seats in the House of Representatives . |
| 19 | For instance , Gellner 's attack on analytic philosophy from an anthropological perspective ; the exposure of eugenics in 1930s psychology ; the connections between certain kinds of research in chemistry and the agricultural and food industries ; the models of human motivation — often little more than employee manipulation to be found in management studies ; Illich 's critique of medicine ; and the underlying interest in control over the natural environment within the physical sciences . |