Example sentences of "[adj -er] control over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better control over the movement of the camera is obtained by the pulley and continuous loop method devised by Tom Pratt . |
| 2 | To D'Arcy it came as a relief to be back in England where he would have tighter control over the situation and the full backup of his headquarters team . |
| 3 | In the pre-Marcus days she 'd seemed to have greater control over every aspect of her nervous system than she did now . |
| 4 | An anti-homosexual initiative was passed in Colorado but turned down in Oregon ; California rejected proposals to give the Governor greater control over the budget and to allow doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill ; an equal rights amendment to give women statutory equal rights with men was rejected in Iowa ; environmental proposals on mandatory recyclable packaging and an excise tax on hazardous substances manufactured in the state were defeated in Massachusetts ; and Arizona voted to observe a state holiday in memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King , the 50th state to do so , and decided to switch its method of execution from gas chamber to lethal injection . |
| 5 | Almost everything done by the administration in Masailand had as one of its objects greater control over the Masai . |
| 6 | In the eyes of the supervisors , ‘ automation ’ was a way of gaining greater control over the pace and quality of output . |
| 7 | It would therefore seem sensible to conclude that greater control over the availability and sale of firearms would make an important contribution to the prevention of suicidal behaviour . |
| 8 | In many of the Sussex levels pumped drainage schemes are being installed to give greater control over the water levels so that the water table can be gradually lowered , permitting the permanent pasture to be improved by ploughing and re-seeding and allowing a longer grazing season ; some will no doubt be converted to arable . |
| 9 | Many more parents became governors , governing bodies changed in their size and balance of membership and they were given at least a formal opportunity to exercise greater control over the conduct of a school . |
| 10 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 11 | With careful modification of materials ( exploiting , for example , steric hindrance , charge effects , hydrophobic groups ) , it may be possible to control both solute partitioning and diffusion into a biolayer and to gain greater control over the behaviour of the biolayer . |
| 12 | A specialist creative package like Factual Design Painter allows you greater control over the way the brushes , pens and ‘ comms ’ operate , as you can see from the Brush Behaviour palette at the bottom left corner |
| 13 | First , responsibilities for care for the chronically handicapped in a community were to be given to those elected by the local population ; thus the electorate would , in theory , have greater control over the way local services are provided . |
| 14 | Britain traditionally has a more cautious approach and the Department of Health ( DOH ) has greater control over the diffusion of high cost technologies through the system of designated regional and supra-regional specialities . |
| 15 | in hot countries , the markets are dynamic , and a multinational company ought to seek greater control over the activities of the ‘ middleman ’ — ie over selling . |
| 16 | The fact of greater control over the activities of the NHS may also improve the prospects for decentralisation : a disciplined and defined delegation is now possible . |
| 17 | Senior management can exercise greater control over the activities of the organisation and coordinate their subordinates or sub-units more easily . |
| 18 | If central Government are to pay even more of the cost , there must be greater control over the activities of every local authority . |
| 19 | The data allow the medical school greater control over the teaching going on in the hospitals . |
| 20 | President Bush on May 9 issued new travel rules designed to exercise greater control over the use of military aircraft by members of his administration , particularly the White House Chief of Staff , John Sununu . |
| 21 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 22 | Greater control over the staffing levels results in the freezing of posts . |
| 23 | Outlining the tasks for 1990 , he laid great emphasis on the development of agriculture through increased funding , largely from local sources , through improved technology and through greater control over the supply of inputs . |
| 24 | But Grand Met says the leases give greater security of tenure and mean landlords will have greater control over the running of their pubs . |
| 25 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 26 | This category gives the pupils even greater control over the learning process by allowing the input data and manipulate it in various ways . |
| 27 | Quality : If a firm makes a component rather than buys it from an external party it has greater control over the quality of the component . |
| 28 | Epson claims that the advantages of this method are finer control over the amount of ink delivered to the page , faster printing , lower power consumption and the elimination of the need to use heat-resistant ink . |