Example sentences of "had [verb] control [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The de Mazia Trust and others also allege that the Barnes Foundation had given control over the copyrights to the collection 's paintings to Lincoln University Press , a previously non-existent imprint . |
| 2 | Reagan 's party had won control of the Senate , which was most unusual for a Republican president , by 53 — 47 and this was an undeniably important material and psychological gain . |
| 3 | President Joseph Saidu Momoh was reported to have fled to neighbouring Guinea on April 30 after mutinous soldiers said that they had seized control of the country . |
| 4 | When he sensed that the politicians were afraid enough of the army to come to terms with him ( as they seemed to be after learning that troops based in Algeria had seized control of the island of Corsica on 24 – 25 May ) , he flashed a red light to Algiers and moved on the political front in Paris . |
| 5 | On May 1 Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser was named as chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) , the body which had assumed control of the country after a successful coup against President Joseph Momoh on April 30 [ see pp. 38552-54 ] . |
| 6 | The first clear indication that Offa had gained control of the South Saxons , therefore , comes only c . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which had taken control of the capital , Mogadishu , when former president Siyad Barre 's regime collapsed in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] , held its third congress on July 4-5 . |
| 10 | By Dec. 28 the pro-government Tajik People 's Front had taken control of the border Pyanj region , reported to be a rebel stronghold . |
| 11 | Charles the Bald 's ancestors , the eighth-century founders of the Carolingians ' family fortunes , had taken control of the church and its resources on a massive scale , and systematically : they had incorporated the church into the state . |
| 12 | News of the coup was first broadcast on Army Television Channel 5 when Gen. Sunthorn announced that a National Peace-Keeping Council ( NPKC ) had taken control of the country in order to preserve the democratic system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said that he wondered whether the government had lost control of the security forces or whether the security forces were doing what the government wanted . |
| 15 | In the Duma elections of 1912 the Bolsheviks won six of the nine curias reserved for workers and by 1914 the Mensheviks had lost control of the trade unions and social insurance councils in the Moscow and St Petersburg regions to their more radical rivals . |
| 16 | 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 . |