Example sentences of "[noun sg] for controlling the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It also has the responsibility for controlling the money supply , which largely consists of bank deposits . |
| 2 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 3 | According to Brazilian law the responsibility for controlling the sale and the use of mercury lies with the national institute for the environment , IBAMA and in theory these controls are very strict , all importers and dealers are supposed to be registered , and the use of mercury in any process and in whatever quantity , how ever small , requires an official permit . |
| 4 | In the Keynesian era from 1945 to the end of the 1960s , fiscal policy was seen as the major weapon for controlling the economy . |
| 5 | ‘ Peacekeeping ’ , that euphemism for controlling the city street , depended in part on fear . |
| 6 | Obviously the indicated similar remedy is still chosen on the same principles as before but choice of potency , up to now our main variable factor for controlling the response to the remedy , is not such an issue when using the LM 's . |
| 7 | Thus a word can store any information that can be coded in the form of an appropriate number of binary bits : such a piece of information might be a numeric value , a group of one or more characters , or ( as we shall see later ) an instruction for controlling the computer . |
| 8 | Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development . |
| 9 | Focusing on the novelty of Japanese inventory control can however divert attention from the fact that kanban is ‘ primarily a method of achieving process change and only secondarily as a method for controlling the flow of materials ’ ( Lee , Sang and Schwendinan 1982 p. 149 ) . |
| 10 | Even if a policy of controlling the money supply may be optimal at present , if previously held relationships break down under rapid financial change , then the rationale for controlling the money supply may disappear . |
| 11 | The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer . |
| 12 | A good example of this is ICL 's LOCATOR fault diagnosis system , which wraps Guide together with ( a ) a system that logs fault reports from customers , and ( b ) a system for controlling the dispatch of engineers to fix faults . |
| 13 | But there is obvious weakness in a system for controlling the government which can only be activated by a member of that government . |
| 14 | Thus , the CLI acts in many ways like a programming language for controlling the way the computer functions . |
| 15 | Participants from the former Soviet republics attended for the first time on Nov. 23-24 a meeting in Paris of the 17-member Co-ordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM — once primarily a forum for controlling the acquisition of sensitive Western technology by the Soviet Union and its allies ) . |
| 16 | The cards were described by the judge as a " manner of manufacture " because he thought that a punched card was analogous to a cam for controlling the cutting path of a lathe . |