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

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1 State President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who is also the patron-in-chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan , in awarding gold medals said , ‘ Cricket , to borrow someone 's words , is a subcontinental game accidentally invented by the British !
2 Playing for Old Anandians against Rio Sports Club at the Ananda College ground , schoolboy Anjana Jayasuriya scored 339 , the highest-ever score in any tournament under the aegis of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka .
3 SLR have recently entered into a contract with MCC to electrify the main scoreboard at Lord 's , and they are about to send electrical units to Karachi for the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan .
4 The Act dissolved the Company and transferred its powers and those of the Board of Control to a new Secretary of State .
5 For this reason there is a need for the function of control to be incorporated into the system .
6 The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed .
7 The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed .
8 Just to conclude , I share the view expressed already by Councillor , that just as the issue of the elderly persons homes brought about the loss of control for the Conservatives in , be sure the Health Service will bring about the downfall of the Conservatives in White Hall .
9 The second risk area in abseiling is the loss of control of the rope .
10 For a variety of reasons Stalin rejected a ‘ Finnish ’ solution in Eastern Europe in preference to a security formula based on ideological conformity and the maintenance of control over these countries ' internal as well as external policies .
11 The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy .
12 In this way the illusion of control over the ‘ sinister pluralisation ’ was established .
13 Their confidence in the system derives from consultation over proposed innovations , from training and from the degree of control over their work which has been consciously left with them .
14 The degree of control of human populations required by the design , especially in the random allocation of subjects to experimental and to control groups , and subjecting one but not the other to the causal treatment in the field , is practically impossible .
15 We calculated the degree of control by cues other than the context cues by subtracting the pixel matrices of Fig. 2 d from those of Fig. 2 b , concentrating on time spent searching at F+ or F- and around L+ or L- .
16 A UN mediation process to resolve the protracted dispute over control of Western Sahara began in June [ see pp.37628-29 ] ; the issue of control of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melillia also remained to be resolved [ see p. 37222 ] .
17 The issue of control of land use remained more contentious ; a White Paper on the control of land use was shelved by the coalition government and not dealt with until the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 under the post-war Labour administration .
18 The issue of control over the Fleet had been a source of tension between the two states since the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 [ see pp. 38732 ; 38878 ] .
19 The move raised questions over the issue of control in aircraft charter arrangements , which several airlines operated with Vietnam .
20 He argues that in the case of the optical company the return of control to the workers ensured a more effective productive unit .
21 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 .
22 The question of control of the trust income is a critical one when one comes to look at trustee expenses ( a point which did not arise in the Spens case ) .
23 Success in the Persian wars and the establishment of control over the Thracian mines brought further enrichment to the treasuries .
24 In an interview with Pravda in March 1979 , the Iranian Minister of Information and Propaganda drew attention to measures such as ‘ the establishment of control over bases from which the Pentagon was carrying out electronic intelligence observations of the territory of the Soviet Union , the termination of the services of American military advisers in the armed forces , and a sharp cutback in the military budget ’ .
25 In response to his requests for assurances on the safety of control over nuclear weapons , he was told that nuclear weapons remained under single control and that disarmament was continuing according to plan .
26 Alternatively , for those who regard this definition as too restrictive — particularly in its implicit overtones of stability , regularity and mutual accommodation between the parties — the central core of the subject is the ‘ study of the process of control over work relations ’ ( Hyman , 1975 , p. 12 ) .
27 In order to convey the right of control to the consignee , the letter of credit beneficiary handed over his signed CKR to the confirming bank .
28 In that country one of the most salient characteristics of post-World War II industrial relations has been the development of control by professional managements in the larger enterprises .
29 Martin Patchen , in a study of 834 US government employees found that the factor of control over work methods consistently emerged as most closely associated with high job motivation .
30 If it is indeed the loosening of control over associative thought — Woolf 's ‘ Wings in the Head ’ — that is the basic mechanism responsible for autism then the question arises : what is it about the mind that modulates this process , allowing it some free rein , though being capable on occasions of going badly awry , leading to psychosis ?
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