Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] control of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Smith launched a stinging attack on John Major , ridiculing him as a man who has lost control of events . |
| 2 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 3 | On the other hand , strength at sea would help displace the Portuguese who had gained control of the Indian Ocean a century earlier , and this would please the Emperor ; accordingly the East India Company armed its ships heavily enough to hold the sea against the Portuguese and against the local pirates . |
| 4 | The God of the Bible was not a God who had delegated control of the world to celestial intelligences or other ‘ Platonic godlets ’ as Erastus called them . |
| 5 | Indeed , the situation was so bleak in 1980 that Sir John came out of retirement to replace his second son Peter , who had taken control of the family firm three years before . |
| 6 | Subjectively , patriotic Nigerians who have taken control of indigenized TNCs will see their own and Nigeria 's best interests served by the success of their enterprises . |
| 7 | The witch-hunt then moved on to try to unseat the editor of Borba and it is clearly the intention of the Serbian nationalists , who have seized control of the Serbian Party , that they should control all newspapers and journals published in Belgrade , even if they are federal organs such as Borba . |