Example sentences of "control [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you do it every day at your particular gliding site , you are certain to misjudge such a landing , besides having the hazards of the higher touchdown speeds and loss of control during the ground run to contend with . |
| 2 | The edifice was short lived : on the day of the opening ceremony , the assembled crowd of visitors got out of control during the festivities and dismantled the building , reducing it to the great heap of stones to be seen today . |
| 3 | In late 1917 , proclaiming Labour 's new commitment to ‘ the democratic control of industry [ through ] the common ownership of the means of production ’ , Arthur Henderson pledged the Party to ‘ strenuously resist every proposal to hand back to private capitalists the great industries and services that have come under Government control during the war … we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . ’ |
| 4 | Jones led the furious protest and clearly lost some control during the match . |
| 5 | Telling first of how Norman started on the S&D at Cole in 1924 , it includes a humorous account of what life was like in Control during the war years in London before he returned to his Somerset roots at Binegar . |
| 6 | There are other defended sites like Rocester and Littlechester , but they have been excluded since they are in a zone which was under close military control during the greater part of the occupation . |
| 7 | The stability which had characterized Edward IV 's last years had thus collapsed , almost overnight , into a struggle for control during the minority which was in the end to lose his son the throne . |
| 8 | The stability which had characterized Edward IV 's last years had thus collapsed , almost overnight , into a struggle for control during the minority which was in the end to lose his son the throne . |
| 9 | The alternative , of close integration of the railways into the central machinery of the state , has not proved suitable for the efficient conduct of complex productive activities ; a Spanish experiment with direct ministerial control during the late 1950s ( RENFE 1957m : vii , ix ; IBRD 1963 : 192–3 ) was shortlived , and the disadvantages of direct control have recently led the Italian government , for example , to remove the state railway from under the direct control of the transport ministry and endow it with an autonomous corporate structure ( Railway Gazette International , December 1985 : 926–7 ) . |
| 10 | It is after they have lost control for the second or third time that the real difficulties appear . |
| 11 | This is what most owners say when confronted by cherished furnishings , door frames or personal items , such as books or the remote control for the TV , that have been torn to shreds by beloved Rover in their absence , or nearly as distressing the evidence of his lack of toilet control . |
| 12 | Les Holliday , with some intelligent distribution and accurate touch finding , established a measure of early control for the home side , who took the lead through Wilf George , after David Holmes had worked diligently to set up the chance . |
| 13 | Although Eagles ' defence was rarely put to the test , they need to improve their control for the sterner tasks that lie ahead next season . |
| 14 | Next in line is a separate volume control for the clean sound , giving a sort of pseudo-twin channel operation . |
| 15 | It fulfils its more conventional role as a control for the mix of wet ( effected ) signal to dry signal , balancing the level coming through the loop with that going directly through the preamp . |
| 16 | At the left hand side of the fascia is a combined twist control for the main oven light , and push button for the mains spark which is used for ignition throughout the cooker . |
| 17 | The charger is manufactured to conform with BS415 and has a number of integral safety features such as protection against wrongly inserted batteries , clear LED indicators to show when on charge , and timer control for the RX6 size which reduces the charge to a trickle after two hours . |
| 18 | The second fragment ( 23kb ) detected by the 680-bp probe is from an unrelated locus ( see Fig. 3 legend ) and serves as a control for the amount of DNA loaded in this experiment as it is not deleted . |
| 19 | Furthermore , unless the exclusive control for the welfare of the children and young people is transferred to the residential sector once they are received into care , then some division of labour is inevitable and necessitates decisions about when fieldwork ends and residential work begins . |
| 20 | Sodomy and birth control for the first two-thirds of the century were ‘ non nominandum inter christianos ’ , or ‘ crimes against nature ’ , too horrible to be named . |
| 21 | Obstetric data were abstracted for at least one control for the 37 cases . |
| 22 | This will result in effective cost control for the builder . |
| 23 | For their experiment last year , the biologists collected lizards from each of the four groups : one from the research base in the arid north-west of Dominica , to serve as the control for the experiment ; another from the moister south-west coast ; a third from montane rainforest at relatively high altitude ; and , finally , one from the wind-blown scrub on the wet north-east coast . |
| 24 | This would especially be the case , it would seem , if a company were contemplating a move to total quality control for the first time . |
| 25 | As the title suggests , this is the ultimate in integrated sales invoicing and stock control for the small to medium sized businesses . |
| 26 | The remote control for the television was next to me so I pressed the ‘ on ’ button . |
| 27 | Will the Minister release MOD votes to allow local authorities , in collaboration with the MOD , to bring empty housing owned by the local authorities and the MOD up to acceptable standards and then transfer it to local authority control for the express purpose of providing homes to ex-service personnel ? |
| 28 | Commenting on the new economic legislation , the Finance Minister , Vaclav Klaus , said that its main thrust was to revitalize small and medium-size state-owned companies through improved management and new investment ; furthermore , the government was aiming to establish a climate favouring private enterprise , but around one-third of the economy would remain under state control for the time being . |
| 29 | The government on June 8 , 1990 , announced an environmental protection programme for the 12 worst polluted areas of Bulgaria , to include cuts in harmful atmospheric emissions , measures to clean rivers , and pollution control for the river Danube and the Black Sea . |
| 30 | Histologically normal duodenal tissue was used as positive control for the lysozyme probe , as lysozyme mRNA is strongly expressed in Paneth cells . |