Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] control [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 2 | Moreover , the whole history of aristocratic landownership showed that socially secure customary tenures , in the long run , had meant a loss of economic control by the landowner . |
| 3 | Israel allowed the old élite to travel to Amman freely so that , despite the loss of physical control of the territories , Jordan was still able to direct much of what happened . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 6 | In the same way that repression was less effective than twenty years earlier as an instrument of socio-political control against the anti-Francoist opposition , the spectres of the Republic and the Civil War were less useful as a means of holding the regime forces together . |
| 7 | The campaign to prevent change of clerical control of the school system was also linked to the contemporary campaign to set up catholic university colleges . |
| 8 | In discussions on economic and monetary union ( EMU — proceeding in parallel with those on political union ) EC Finance Ministers reached broad agreement on March 18 on the appropriate level of political control over the proposed European central bank ( Eurofed ) . |
| 9 | Les Holliday , with some intelligent distribution and accurate touch finding , established a measure of early control for the home side , who took the lead through Wilf George , after David Holmes had worked diligently to set up the chance . |
| 10 | It was administratively feasible because Dutch industrial relations had always been characterised by a relatively high degree of centralised control over the bargaining process , together with a weak position of the trade unions at shop floor level.8 Also , in that particular period , the country had been ruled by governments which by virtue of their composition and policies were able to secure trade union cooperation ( Albeda , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Predictably , this last consequence never followed , so homage succeeded by consecration continued to be the rule , and the practical diminution of royal control over the episcopate was negligible . |
| 13 | Separation of the two hemispheres of the brain showed each could only sustain a full range of visual control over the opposite hand . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since the union organisations are part of PRI , they have a dual function : firstly , as a pressure group lobbying for a greater share of social benefits for labour ; secondly , as an apparatus of political control of the working class . |
| 16 | There is a certain amount of evidence to support this contention , which does , however , show the importance of glacial control in the later stages . |
| 17 | China 's rift with Moscow , and other evidence of the breakdown of Soviet control in the Communist bloc , had given encouragement to de Gaulle 's own policy of greater independence within the Western alliance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It gave Raymond Cusick a far greater guarantee of artistic control over the series . |
| 20 | This created the climate for a degree of loosening of central control on the curriculum in the 1902 Education Act . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Finally , some looked to the ‘ increasing ordering of economic organisation by the conscience of the community , and a great extension of public control in the use of private property and in industrial relations ’ . |
| 23 | Purges of Stalin 's leadership rivals were followed by an immense extension of bureaucratic control of the economy and a ruthless party programme of forced industrialization and collectivization of Soviet agriculture , carried out with enormous loss of life from the late 1920s onwards . |
| 24 | An Expert Committee on Compensation and Betterment had been set up in January under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Uthwatt with terms of reference ‘ to make an objective analysis of the subject of the payment of compensation and recovery of betterment in respect of public control of the use of land ’ . |
| 25 | In any case , Weber is not very much concerned about the absence of popular control over the political elites . |
| 26 | What is required now is a strategy for the socialist use of democratic control over the local state which , while never neglecting what efforts are possible at providing services in a socialist ( i. e. humane and effective ) fashion in the foreseeable future , pays a great deal of attention to the use of resources for the mobilization of forces . |
| 27 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 28 | The convoluted language to argue in favour of national control in the Tory manifesto can be explained by anxiety not to use the technical , but too foreign-sounding , EC term ‘ subsidiarity ’ . |
| 29 | It is dealt with first because not only is it an important form of legal control through the tort of nuisance , but it is a prerequisite to understanding the controls afforded by the Public Health legislation , discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 30 | But at least there is some form of official control over the films children see in cinemas . |