Example sentences of "[noun sg] of control over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 2 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
| 3 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 4 | But the price of obtaining the destruction of working-class power and organization was a loss of control over the state by the bourgeoisie and nobility . |
| 5 | In this way the illusion of control over the ‘ sinister pluralisation ’ was established . |
| 6 | It gives you a level of control over the configuration that is cleaner and quicker than anything DR-DOS offers in its question and answer CONFIG.SYS functionality . |
| 7 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The second priority will be the division of your holding into a number of main blocks , depending upon your acreage , to give you a measure of control over the grazing of your pastures , to separate groups of stock ( e.g. rams from ewes ) , and to shut off fields for hay or arable crops . |
| 10 | The secondary ( vertical ) line is used to fire the shutter and also exercises a measure of control over the kite train . |
| 11 | If they were both to preserve a measure of control over the wage structure in a capitalist economy and to win adequate state pensions for their members , then a retirement condition was inevitable . |
| 12 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 13 | A court must be able to exercise some measure of control over the cases which are brought before it , to prevent injustice to either party and to ensure that the various issues can be fully and effectively dealt with . |
| 14 | Among positive rights , we should include the rights : to have all one 's experience and knowledge assessed in the admissions process ; to determine the subjects studied ; to have a legitimate measure of control over the pace and the methods of study ; to be able to follow a particular academic interest , or develop a point of view of one 's own ; to be examined in ways which do justice to the student 's achievements ; and to be credited with those parts of a course which have been passed successfully ( should the student wish or need to move to another institution , or to take a break in the programme of study ) . |
| 15 | Its directors had to sustain wars in Asia , try to devise means of governing newly conquered Indian provinces , and cope with the demands of the national government and of Parliament for an ever greater measure of control over the Company . |
| 16 | Lastly , a charge affords a chargee a measure of control over the business of the debtor company . |
| 17 | Fourth , the holder of a floating charge will have some measure of control over the company even without taking any steps to enforce it . |
| 18 | Thus we require participatory democracy to give the individual a real measure of control over the life and structure of his/her environment . |
| 19 | Certainly , the Parliament of the United Kingdom has a number of other functions and one of these , the exercise of control over the Executive , is of fundamental importance to the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 21 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 22 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 23 | LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks . |
| 24 | It is generally believed today that hyperinflations can be avoided by the maintenance of a reasonable degree of control over the supply of money . |
| 25 | This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said . |
| 26 | In addition to imitation , there are a number of other procedures designed to give the teacher or therapist some degree of control over the child 's language production . |
| 27 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 28 | The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This explains why the Commission wishes to exercise some degree of control over the freedom to subsidise . |