Example sentences of "[vb infin] control [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second and simultaneously , in order not to release a consumer credit squeeze that would second imports , they should introduce controls on the supply of credit ; restraint in what the banking system is allowed to borrow . |
| 2 | To a large extent , pupils would assume control over the learning process . |
| 3 | Many women would assume control of the family business upon the death of a spouse . |
| 4 | Therefore monetarists have resorted to the claim that governments can exert control over the money stock if they are determined enough , and in so doing will bring about the desired effect on money incomes and prices . |
| 5 | Gaitskell now knew that there were practical limits to the extent to which the Government could exert control over the industry . |
| 6 | But how long could they keep control of the situation ? |
| 7 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 8 | He said " We must keep control of the future of our countryside and of our wildlife in our hands . " |
| 9 | After noting that , in Owen 's expectation , passive resistance — that is , the ‘ sacred holiday month ’ or , in modern parlance , a general strike — would bring his new order of society painlessly into being , they next regret the persistence of the idea that Trade Unions , as Associations of Producers , should recover control of the instruments of production , an idea which they call ‘ Joint Stock Individualism ’ and which , they note , has scarcely been eradicated from the minds of the idealists of the trade union movement . |
| 10 | Through this chain of dependency , it is argued , the state could exercise control over the policies and practices of the Commercial Banks , and through them Japan 's leading firms . |
| 11 | Can the purchaser exercise control over the business ? |
| 12 | He added that Russia could not secure control of the air . |
| 13 | As feminists we must demand control over the planning process , in order to overcome the isolation of domestic activity and individualised childcare , and to achieve better conditions in the home . |
| 14 | Another reason is perhaps sheer incredulity that anyone can gain control over the systems of language and communication operating as a whole . |
| 15 | If we did take control of the Council I think we would try and decentralize much more than is being done at the moment . |
| 16 | It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned . |
| 17 | Ershad met with senior Army officers who informed him that they were unwilling to step in and take control of the country . |
| 18 | I had decided that I should take control of the aeroplane and try to fly it to England . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're hoping to get some sort of fail-safe mechanism written in so we can take control of the club and sort out the legal matters after that , ’ he said . |
| 20 | To begin with I thought I must force myself to be matter-of-fact , not let his abnormality take control of the situation . |
| 21 | The resolution went on to state that " any attempt by [ the PLO ] to sneak in and take control of the process in any way will result in the termination of the process and Israel 's withdrawal from it " . |
| 22 | If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help . |
| 23 | Yet , the institution of the industrial co-operative commonwealth required that labour should take control of the means of production ; and for Owen , for whom the violence and destruction such as had attended the French Revolution were calamitous , the change to control by labour must happen peacefully . |
| 24 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 25 | An example would be where someone else takes charge of the vehicle to such a degree that he will not resume control of the vehicle , such as where he gives his friend the ignition key and a taxi is ordered to take him home . |
| 26 | Who should have control of the curriculum ; do those who have control have the education of all pupils as their first priority ? |
| 27 | The immigrant groups had the numbers , even if they did n't have control of the media or the school board . |
| 28 | Indeed , almost all commentators stress that for Type I systems to work , the health authority must have control over the destination of referrals . |
| 29 | What is the difference , then , between teaching by machines and the teaching by a teacher in the classroom ? 1 The learner has no control over the teacher , but he can have control over the machine . |
| 30 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |