Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adj] control over " in BNC.

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1 This is partly the result of inadequate control over facades and signing , reinforced by the trend toward corporate design by major retail chains .
2 They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget .
3 The issue of judicial control over juries with a view to pre-empting decisions of fact , however , is neutral as between objectivist and subjectivist approaches to mistake .
4 One of the key elements of this study was the exercise of tight control over variables which may influence faecal bile acid profiles ; age , transit time , gall stones , cholecystectomy , hepatic function , hepatic metastases , previous surgery , and antibiotics .
5 The question of interim control over nuclear weapons in Ukraine had been removed from the agenda after preparatory Foreign and Defence Ministers ' meetings on July 3-4 ( not including Moldova 's Defence Minister ) , as it was felt that there was no likelihood of an agreement at the summit .
6 If the ‘ ultimate aim ’ is specified as the securing of predictive control over the future run of experience , then either this can be justified as providing a means to achieving further practical ends , or , if it stands in no need of justification , it may be possible to explain why people have it without the explanation undermining its appeal .
7 I emphasise that the Assembly of Welsh Counties , the Council of Welsh Districts and the Audit Commission back the restoration of local control over the business rate .
8 One reason for this change is that the loosening of Russian control over Eastern Europe has bared old frictions .
9 In any case , Weber is not very much concerned about the absence of popular control over the political elites .
10 The extension of Soviet control over all of Korea would enhance the political and strategic position of the Soviet Union with respect to both China and Japan , and adversely affect the position of the US in those areas and throughout the Far East .
11 The extension of Soviet control over Eastern Europe in the early post-war period is conventionally described by Soviet diplomatic historians as the ‘ establishment of international relations of a new type ’ , cemented by a network of bilateral alliances of which thirty-five had been concluded by the late 1940s .
12 Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia .
13 The Party had adopted the principle of complete control over its Parliamentary spokesmen , but the stage had been reached where the MPs were prepared to re-enter the Labour Party rather than be instructed on their actions .
14 Yet the problem of central control over wartime production was not solved until 1943 with the setting up of the Office of War Mobilization under the direction of James Byrnes , formerly a Supreme Court Justice and a future Secretary of State under President Truman .
15 The resulting confusion entails a highly inaccurate assessment of the extent of Soviet control over the diverse groups in Latin America which claim a ‘ Marxist ’ orientation .
16 for it was the determination to separate State schools from the Church that led , in France , to the establishing of central control over the curriculum , and the employment of teachers by the State as civil servants .
17 The dilemma , he adds , is that ‘ reinforcement of the parliamentary accountability of these organisations would also entail a strengthening of ministerial control over them ’ , so destroying the arm 's length relationship with all its attendant advantages .
18 It often happens in large computer systems that , because of a lack of local control over the system , there is little confidence that accuracy of data can be guaranteed .
19 The report concluded that the Soviet Union and not the NKLP connoted the reality of power — ‘ The NKLP is merely an instrument of Soviet control over the northern half of the peninsula . ’
20 In these elite theory accounts , then , political leadership principally consists of maintaining an impression of public control over the state apparatus as a whole , and developing slogans or political formulae useful in mobilizing voter or interest group support .
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