Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of control over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the house of Foix-Béarn emerged as the neighbouring territorial power with the greatest measure of control over Bigorre and the important Pyrenean passes which lay within its boundaries . |
| 2 | The state was forced to assume some measure of control over distribution of food and levels of profits , and thus intervene in the market . |
| 3 | However , most countries still retained some degree of control over capital account transactions , mainly because the volatile nature of capital flows was thought to present potential problems for the stability of their exchange rates . |
| 4 | Such economic transformations tend to undermine both the national independence of Third World countries , and the autonomy of women where this is based on some degree of control over land . |
| 5 | The main advantage of elicitation procedures is that they give a relatively high degree of control over areas of linguistic ability which are being assessed . |
| 6 | The Orbital 's two-phase ( air blast ) direct injection fuelling system , which adds a finely atomised fuel charge to the cylinder only after the exhaust port has been covered , eliminates the economy and emissions problems of old while providing a high degree of control over charge stratification . |
| 7 | Chomsky points out that the principles of operant conditioning were originally derived from experimental studies of animals , in which the ex-perimenter could achieve a very high degree of control over variables which were presumed to influence behaviour . |
| 8 | The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary . |
| 9 | Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation . |
| 10 | This element of control over entry to the trade was crucial to the prospects of artisan unions . |
| 11 | The political dimension of control over health and health care is inescapable . |
| 12 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 13 | It was also in this year that the Company lost — at least legally — its sole right of control over appointments , for schoolmasters were now required to hold licences from the Bishop of their province in this case , Chester . |
| 14 | Their agreement was the first based on profit-sharing as well as retention of copyright , which gave him a large measure of control over publication and future working of the copyrights . |
| 15 | Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts . |
| 16 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 17 | the extent to which subordinates need to be controlled and supervised , and in particular the strength of the ‘ central faith ’ or culture of the organisation , which provides an alternative means of control over employees . |
| 18 | And the Western experience of sex , he argues , is not the inhibition of discourse , is not describable as a regime of silence , but is rather a constant , and historically changing , deployment of discourses on sex , and this ever-expanding discursive explosion is part of a complex growth of control over individuals through the apparatus of sexuality . |
| 19 | The powerful political thrust to get rid of this administrative mode of control over labour and material resources is often , but not exclusively , motivated by the need to relieve the economy of the burden of taxation , and to overcome the fiscal crisis of the state . |
| 20 | Agencies are not , however , without various strategies of control over field staff ( ch. 4 , s. ii ) . |
| 21 | Some have a macro-perspective : the national-international dimension of control over health care . |
| 22 | Fourth , ‘ and most importantly there were four practical reasons for the general extension of control over demolition : |
| 23 | It is the fear that the administrative form of control over material resources could become politicized to such an extent that it would no longer be subservient to , but subversive of the commodity form . |
| 24 | The conservation area legislation also gives local planners a stronger degree of control over shopfronts than any other part of the building or type of building . |
| 25 | It will provide a single point of control over Novell networks , enabling users to maintain integrated system management security across host systems and the NetWare network computing environments , CA claims . |
| 26 | There are two parallel statutory systems of control over Church of England churches : the Church 's system , and the secular system . |
| 27 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 28 | Whether this has serious implications for the efficiency of large companies depends on the effectiveness of other forms of control over management , and on the prior question of the intensity of non-profit motivations . |
| 29 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 30 | For the French king , the opportunity of exercising a greater measure of control over Brittany , with its maritime outlets , was not to be missed . |