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Example sentences of "[noun sg] of control over [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem .
2	Loss of control over events .
3	Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 .
4	The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy .
5	If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all .
6	Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg .
7	Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature .
8	Their agreement was the first based on profit-sharing as well as retention of copyright , which gave him a large measure of control over publication and future working of the copyrights .
9	Nevertheless , the house of Foix-Béarn emerged as the neighbouring territorial power with the greatest measure of control over Bigorre and the important Pyrenean passes which lay within its boundaries .
10	They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ .
11	The state was forced to assume some measure of control over distribution of food and levels of profits , and thus intervene in the market .
12	For the French king , the opportunity of exercising a greater measure of control over Brittany , with its maritime outlets , was not to be missed .
13	But labour has consequences for consciousness in that rules for instrumental action are developed which enable the subject to have a measure of control over nature through the use of tools .
14	Some have a macro-perspective : the national-international dimension of control over health care .
15	The political dimension of control over health and health care is inescapable .
16	The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary .
17	Lord Denning observed : ‘ In the OLA 1957 the word occupier is used [ as ] … a convenient word to denote a person who had a sufficient degree of control over premises to put him under a duty of care towards those who came lawfully on to the premises . ’
18	Lord Denning stated : Wherever a person has a sufficient degree of control over premises that he ought to realise that any failure on his part to use care may result in injury to a person coming lawfully there , then he is an occupier and the person coming lawfully there is his visitor .
19	Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts .
20	The main advantage of elicitation procedures is that they give a relatively high degree of control over areas of linguistic ability which are being assessed .
21	However , most countries still retained some degree of control over capital account transactions , mainly because the volatile nature of capital flows was thought to present potential problems for the stability of their exchange rates .
22	Performance requirements have commonly increased , indicating countries ' determination to retain a degree of control over firms ; liberalisation does not mean laissez-faire .
23	Such economic transformations tend to undermine both the national independence of Third World countries , and the autonomy of women where this is based on some degree of control over land .
24	The conservation area legislation also gives local planners a stronger degree of control over shopfronts than any other part of the building or type of building .
25	Chomsky points out that the principles of operant conditioning were originally derived from experimental studies of animals , in which the ex-perimenter could achieve a very high degree of control over variables which were presumed to influence behaviour .
26	The Orbital 's two-phase ( air blast ) direct injection fuelling system , which adds a finely atomised fuel charge to the cylinder only after the exhaust port has been covered , eliminates the economy and emissions problems of old while providing a high degree of control over charge stratification .
27	The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers .
28	Unlike France , however , the parliament is not constitutionally supine ; indeed it has a degree of control over policy which some might envy , although this is more a result of governmental weakness than anything else .
29	It was also in this year that the Company lost — at least legally — its sole right of control over appointments , for schoolmasters were now required to hold licences from the Bishop of their province in this case , Chester .
30	It will provide a single point of control over Novell networks , enabling users to maintain integrated system management security across host systems and the NetWare network computing environments , CA claims .