Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] control over " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the circumstances under which successive Nigerian governments have attempted to indigenize , in the hope of gaining control over their economic and ultimately their developmental destinies . |
| 2 | The Court of Auditors , composed of nine members , examines the accounts of the Community , watches over financial management and assists the EP and the Council in exercising control over the implementation of the budget by the Commission . |
| 3 | You will be able to enjoy the process of acquiring control over your eating and exercise behaviour and the success you gain by losing weight will be long-lasting . |
| 4 | The process of gaining control over your health-related habits should be easy and fun . |
| 5 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 6 | Alarmed by the sense of losing control over the sprawling Empire , the government moved further and further away from the spirit of the ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats . |
| 7 | Faced with economic problems caused by rising fuel prices , the managerial staff of organisations and institutions housed in non-domestic buildings may welcome the possibility of gaining control over energy consumption which seems to be offered by technological developments that are comparatively cheap . |
| 8 | Toddlers take no pleasure in achieving control over their parents ; they understand that this is not how life is meant to be , and yet they are driven to test it out . |
| 9 | For the employers , however , the ‘ new technology ’ was a means of re-establishing control over the industry and of driving it into profit . |
| 10 | The Conservatives also saw tax policy as a means of establishing control over public sector borrowing , and of introducing tax reform to assist the supply-side of the economy . |