Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] control of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where management are not borrowing and so do not need to obtain interest relief , and vendor shareholders wish to obtain capital gains tax deferral and are offered debentures in Newco for their Target shares , it may be possible to use a partnership to acquire control of Target but also incorporate a Newco ( owned by the partnership ) to issue the debentures . |
| 2 | The council brought a civil action to regain control of land at Denmark Street leased to Plansweep Ltd which built a chemist 's there . |
| 3 | Carol Embury failed in her bid to win control of Swindon three years ago . |
| 4 | FRANCIS Lee , the former England striker now a millionaire businessman , was today preparing to unveil an audacious bid to take control of Manchester City . |
| 5 | As government forces pursued a dry-season offensive to regain control of trade routes across the border with Thailand , clashes with guerrillas from the Karen , Mon and Kachin ethnic groups were reported by the state radio in January . |
| 6 | It is also helpful if it can be shown there have been arm 's length negotiations between management and the institutions and that the price benefit to management ( ie the fact that management acquire control of Newco but pay no more per share than the institutions and/or pay less than 50% of the price for more than 50% of the equity ) derives from those negotiations , rather than from management 's employment by Target . |
| 7 | But this test examines control of search location by both sets of cues and the result would be trivial if the context cues are of primary importance . |
| 8 | Special Constable lost control of car |
| 9 | The Edict of Pîtres in 864 strongly suggests the combination of political and fiscal reasons behind Charles 's determination to keep control of markets : others , presumably local magnates , had been setting them up on their own initiative , but the king now decreed that such markets were to be banned unless they secured royal authorisation , and royal agents were told to keep lists of those so authorised . |
| 10 | The first step in the battle to keep control of borrowing is to recognise that you might be in danger . |
| 11 | The first step in the battle to keep control of borrowing is to recognise that you might be in danger . |
| 12 | The first point to note is that management should retain the majority by reference to nominal value of Newco 's issued share capital , after the institutions have invested , so that notwithstanding the equity investment by the institutions , management retains control of Newco within the meaning of s416(2) ( a ) . |
| 13 | Edward I was asked to resolve the disputed succession and used the opportunity to assume control of Scotland , its revenues and administration . |
| 14 | The reality , as he saw it , was that now ‘ the P.N.M. leadership had control of state power , the building of the party apparatus had become superfluous . ’ |
| 15 | In each case , the faction which gained control of the king 's person gained control of government . |
| 16 | He convened a group within the cabinet to wrest control of Japan 's end of the two countries ' Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks from the civil servants . |
| 17 | The first , in general , was the Yugoslav claim to share control of Carinthia with the British . |
| 18 | A rare glimpse of how this system works has been provided by the attempt of Italy 's Pirelli to gain control of Continental , Germany 's biggest tyre-maker . |
| 19 | The government retains control of television and radio . |
| 20 | The UN Security Council on June 29 mandated 1,000 Canadian troops of UNPROFOR currently in Croatia to redeploy in an effort to secure control of Sarajevo airport . |
| 21 | Janata Dal took control of Gujarat from Congress ( I ) in State Assembly elections in February 1990 ; in March Chimanbhai Patel replaced Madhavsinh Solanki of Congress ( I ) as Chief Minister [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 22 | How the executive gained control of Parliament |
| 23 | Socialists often presented the Spanish issue in balance-of-power terms , accusing the National Government of standing idly by while fascism gained control of Britain 's vital Mediterranean sea routes . |
| 24 | BEWARE OF OVER-ENTHUSIASTIC FINANCIAL ORGANISATIONS The only way to keep control of money is by handling it yourself . |
| 25 | After two days and nights of violence , and the outbreak of disturbances in other US cities — there was sporadic violence in San Francisco ( California ) , Seattle ( Washington ) , Eugene ( Oregon ) , San Jose ( California ) , Las Vegas ( Nevada ) , Madison ( Wisconsin ) , Birmingham ( Alabama ) , Tampa ( Florida ) , and Atlanta ( Georgia ) — a huge military operation was conducted in order to reassert control of Los Angeles . |
| 26 | The following are not chargeable events for these purposes : ( i ) the removal or variation of a restriction relating to all shares of the same class ; ( ii ) the creation or variation of a right relating to all shares of the same class ; ( iii ) the imposition of a restriction on all shares of the same class ; or ( iv ) the removal of a right relating to all shares of a class from all those shares , so long as : ( a ) a majority of Newco 's shares of that class are not held by directors or employees of Newco or by any associated company of Newco , or by directors or employees of any such associated company ; or ( b ) a majority of the shares of that class confer control of Newco on the shareholders , who are employees or directors ; or ( c ) at the time of the event Newco is a subsidiary ( but not a dependent subsidiary ) and has a single class of shares . |
| 27 | The Labour party won control of Derbyshire with a substantial majority in 1981 and the inspector of constabulary says that there have been at least eight years of progressive underfunding by the police committee — 1.8 per cent . |
| 28 | In retrospect , it seems obvious that Mosley would use his grasp and understanding of politics to take control of world motor sport . |
| 29 | Then when a pro-East Roman party gained control of Venice , allegiance was declared in favour of Nicephorus once again , and peace was made with Charles . |