Example sentences of "over the means " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureaucratic-technical class does not have control over the means of production , but does have control over labour power and , unlike the dominant class , finds its remuneration not in profits but in salaries and fees . |
| 2 | The main feature of the bureaucratic-technical class is that although it lacks effective control over the means of production its members do have control over the labour of others in their subordinate position in bureaucratic structures . |
| 3 | For those , such as the rural semi-proletariat and the absolutely landless with little control over the means of production with which to meet their needs , even individual responses are denied them . |
| 4 | A famous 19th century thinker once observed that ‘ the class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over the means of mental production ’ . |
| 5 | They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access . |
| 6 | Workers may strike for better pay and conditions , but draw back from trying to gain direct control over the means of production or the content of work . |
| 7 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 8 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 9 | ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) . |
| 10 | The new version , on the contrary , shows native-speaker mastery over the means of signposting the text into a coherent , clear prose , which is … a real pleasure to read . |
| 11 | Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail . |