Example sentences of "[noun sg] of control over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Congress exercises a degree of control over the General People 's Committee , which is broadly equivalent to a Council of Ministers or Cabinet . |
| 3 | The Congress exercises a degree of control over the General People 's Committee , which is broadly equivalent to a Council of Ministers or Cabinet . |
| 4 | To hypothesize , it was as if the king of France held the earldom of Cornwall or Lancaster from the king of England , who could therefore exert some degree of control over the foreign policy and behaviour of the king of France . |
| 5 | Success in the Persian wars and the establishment of control over the Thracian mines brought further enrichment to the treasuries . |
| 6 | To grasp the mystic significance of numbers — for instance , the two poles of Solomon 's litter , and the four struts that supported its canopy — was to acquire ( as some wielders of power in modern times have done through astrology ) a sense of control over the contemporary world : to explain the failure of some policies , to plan and time others more effectively . |