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

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1 This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said .
2 It was intended as a device to enable states with major accumulations of crude oil to exercise the fullest possible degree of control over the industry concerned with its extraction .
3 Thus we require participatory democracy to give the individual a real measure of control over the life and structure of his/her environment .
4 In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed .
5 Even when industries were not state owned there were various other instruments by which government actually exercised a large measure of control over the private sector .
6 The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence .
7 It is generally believed today that hyperinflations can be avoided by the maintenance of a reasonable degree of control over the supply of money .
8 One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) .
9 Using the Light Rifle about 10′ from a 22″ television set gave a reasonable degree of control over the game .
10 We all believe in political fairness : we accept that each person or group in the community should have a roughly equal share of control over the decisions made by Parliament or Congress or the state legislature .
11 Among positive rights , we should include the rights : to have all one 's experience and knowledge assessed in the admissions process ; to determine the subjects studied ; to have a legitimate measure of control over the pace and the methods of study ; to be able to follow a particular academic interest , or develop a point of view of one 's own ; to be examined in ways which do justice to the student 's achievements ; and to be credited with those parts of a course which have been passed successfully ( should the student wish or need to move to another institution , or to take a break in the programme of study ) .
12 Will Ministers be prepared to surrender the close degree of control over the Prison Service to which they have grown accustomed , and to the extent necessary to allow a Chief Executive the freedom required for true agency status ?
13 Set against these developments , soccer hooliganism may be interpreted as ‘ attempts by certain sections of the class to assert some inarticulate , but keenly experienced sense of control over the game that was theirs ’ ( Taylor , 1971a:163 ) .
14 What this means , of course , is that the user gives up a certain amount of control over the layout and the actual construction of the document .
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