Example sentences of "of control in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of control in the self ( particularly the ‘ selves ’ of powerful individuals ) , or loss of control in a wider social or political fabric could produce a domino effect bringing the whole into chaos . |
| 2 | There are smaller pockets of control in the departments of San Vicente , Usulutan and Cuscatlan . |
| 3 | A few years later , Mary Barnett reiterated the position : ‘ One of the most marked characteristics of the age is a growing spirit of independence in the children and a corresponding slackening of control in the parents . ’ |
| 4 | The bus went out of control in the centre of Oxford , crossed a pedestrian island and pinned the young woman , under the wheel . |
| 5 | Judicial review of the exercise of discretionary powers by administrative bodies has been self-consciously based on the need to ensure that the intention of the legislature is implemented and that discretionary power is subjected to some sort of control in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 6 | Everything is overblown and inflated and out of control in the film business . ’ |
| 7 | And with that she turned on him herself and raising up her wings struck him such a blow with her talons that he rolled back out of control in the air , the tops of the pine trees below spinning before his eyes . |
| 8 | The Messerschmit came round again and this time the rear gunner was more accurate and the Messerschmitt began to roll helplessly out of control in the direction of the ground , belching smoke and flames . |
| 9 | Was the defeat of the usurper worth the dangers of an armed mob out of control in the streets ? |
| 10 | The second is based on a latter day philanthropy , which like its nineteenth-century antecedent , muffles the iron fist of control in the velvet glove of sentiment . |
| 11 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 12 | By 1978 , heroin dealing was out of control in the area and New York police mounted Pressure Point , an operation aimed at closing down the area 's drug markets and hailed as a great success . |
| 13 | The short circuit current ( SCC ) rose significantly from day 4 to 7 after inoculation , reaching a value twice that of control in the face of an unchanged electrical conductance . |
| 14 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |