Example sentences of "[pos pn] control over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he tried to upstage her she sauntered down to the front of the stage and such was her control over the audience now , he had to back off , otherwise it would have been he who looked ridiculous . |
| 2 | ‘ But this also raises some doubt over her control over the department in that a highly contentious initiative like this can apparently proceed without her knowing anything about it . ’ |
| 3 | If it had been implemented they would have lost not only their control over the peasantry but also virtually all authority in provincial affairs . |
| 4 | Their control over the decision-making process has been carefully reinforced by ensuring that the climate of ideas which surround the making of disability policy is also under their influence . |
| 5 | Governments have a direct influence over the process of national income determination through their control over the flows of public expenditure G and taxation T . |
| 6 | In the late ninth century the Byzantines temporarily reasserted their control over the Croats , but in 924 Tomislav , župan of Nin , declared himself King of the Croats and established a kingdom free from both Frankish and Byzantine rule . |
| 7 | Although the functionaries of Soviet society merely earn salaries in return for the functions required by the state , this does not give a complete picture of their privileges ; others derive from their control over the system of distribution . |
| 8 | From this basic fact arise the other manifestations of executive dominance , for example their control over the agenda of the chamber , membership of committees and the time to be allowed for committee deliberation and floor debate . |
| 9 | In Toulouse , for example , while episcopal jurisdiction shrank under the Second Lateran Council 's prohibition on justice de sang , the boni homines emerged before 1120 as important judicial figures , their competence enhanced by their control over the salvamenta established as a consequence of the peace movement . |
| 10 | The unions were always able to exert their control over the industry by , say , threatening to stop production , and the proprietors were never brave enough to withstand significant financial losses . |
| 11 | In negotiations with management , union officials may feel compelled to resort to the threat of industrial action ( a strike , ‘ blacking ’ certain work practices , a work-to-rule or go-slow etc — to use resource power in the form of their control over the labour force , ie. the support of their members ) . |
| 12 | Unions have some degree of monopoly power in their control over the supply of labour . |
| 13 | Kaufman , 1960:154–5 ) and threaten their control over the design of consents . |
| 14 | Legal organizations , to be effective in attaining their mandate , have to transmit their policies to and make secure their control over the enforcement agent in the field . |
| 15 | By contrast , the husbands , irrespective of their employment status , nearly always had some ‘ pocket money ’ ( although the sum may have been reduced ) which reflected their control over the family finances . |
| 16 | No we wo n't , because , essentially , if you give yourself one target like the exchange rate , then you lose control over one or possibly both of interest rates and money supply , both of which the government has always claimed , are absolutely fundamental to maintaining their control over the economy . |
| 17 | Rather , the characteristic of professionals is their control over the client . |
| 18 | The reason for this was not entirely apparent , but they said that the word power was too strong to describe their control over the employees . |
| 19 | In reality , it is this power , rather than any other provision , that has been vital to the police in their control over the years of pickets , protesters , and political demonstrators . |
| 20 | It 's hard to decipher their words in some cases , so atrophied is their control over the shapes they can make with their lips . |
| 21 | Yet the bottlenecks in the industry 's own programme were identified , one by one , and their control over the manufacturers was gradually increased . |
| 22 | The Yugoslav government has always used its control over the banking system to cover expenditures in excess of its revenues , and this is a major cause of the current economic crisis . |
| 23 | Direct expenditure by the federal government on investment has been virtually eliminated since the adoption of the 1974 Constitution , but , as we shall see below , the federal government continues to have an important indirect influence on investment through its control over the level of bank credits . |
| 24 | The two best-known ones are the one undertaken by Augustus Caesar , which allegedly affected the birth of Jesus , and the Domesday Survey compiled at the instigation of William I. Both of these were attempts by an occupying power to extend its control over the population and , no doubt , record the spoils of victory . |
| 25 | Chinese leaders reportedly told Anh that they fully supported the outcome of the congress , which had stressed the maintenance of the party 's hold on political power whilst approving further loosening of its control over the economy . |
| 26 | What we have to hope for is that its control over the language and its position as an arbiter of the quality of that language are maintained . |
| 27 | Front running involves a broker/dealer using his control over a customer 's order to deal ahead of that order for his own benefit . |
| 28 | Though in the end his rights prevailed , the dispute had long repercussions on his control over the counts and castellans of the demesne . |
| 29 | His control over the administration was subjugated , via the responsibility of his secretaries of state , to an automatically elected unicameral assembly . |
| 30 | you lose your control over the schedule . |