Example sentences of "[noun sg] of control [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to conclude , I share the view expressed already by Councillor , that just as the issue of the elderly persons homes brought about the loss of control for the Conservatives in , be sure the Health Service will bring about the downfall of the Conservatives in White Hall . |
| 2 | There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents . |
| 3 | A court must be able to exercise some measure of control over the cases which are brought before it , to prevent injustice to either party and to ensure that the various issues can be fully and effectively dealt with . |
| 4 | He argues that in the case of the optical company the return of control to the workers ensured a more effective productive unit . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 6 | They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply . |
| 7 | LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks . |
| 8 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 9 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 10 | The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done . |
| 11 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 12 | Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system . |
| 13 | A few years later , Mary Barnett reiterated the position : ‘ One of the most marked characteristics of the age is a growing spirit of independence in the children and a corresponding slackening of control in the parents . ’ |
| 14 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Discipline and Punish Foucault demonstrates how the individual is constituted through specific technologies of power ; in the History of Sexuality , he shows the extent to which the human sciences , including medicine and the practice of psychoanalysis , facilitated the extension of control beyond the limits of the body in the construction of the inner realms of subjectivity , consciousness and experience . |
| 17 | you may gain a sense of control over the ways in which HIV could affect you , your partner and your family |
| 18 | And it , would it be fair to say Mr that it is a form of control within the police force ? |
| 19 | The corollary of the possession of power by companies is that the individuals , interest groups , and communities affected by it suffer a lack of control over the conditions which determine how they live their lives . |
| 20 | It emphasises the need for participation rather than representation ; a call in short for social and political structures which offer people the possibility of control of the resources of modern society to care for each other in an active , convivial manner . |
| 21 | The problem of control by the masses tends not to be confronted directly . |
| 22 | However while this may provide the conceptual basis for judicial intervention , it furnishes little in the way of guidance as to the extent of control over the conditions of jurisdiction . |