Example sentences of "[verb] control [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that ‘ Political power and the effective control of communication go together ’ and political power at a local level may concern formation of council or school policy ; equally , consumer power depends on knowledge for choice and accountability while producer power needs control of the base materials , including know-how . |
| 2 | To maintain itself , a bureaucracy needs control over the recruitment of personnel . |
| 3 | The main problems seem to come when the foreground application program has control over the keyboard or is using large chunks of memory to mimic the screen . |
| 4 | An occupier of premises for the purposes of the OLA 1957 is a person who has control over the premises . |
| 5 | The pope has control over the kingdom and kingdoms of this world . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister has control over the machinery of the Cabinet , determining the agenda , setting up Cabinet committees , circulating ( or not circulating ! ) papers written by Cabinet ministers for the Cabinet , and announcing the decision reached without taking a vote . |
| 7 | Moreover , a Marxist-Leninist analysis of foreign-policy formulation in the United States ( which would have been accepted by Guevara and also by Raúl Castro , both extremely powerful figure ) implicitly makes two assumptions which have been shown to be inaccurate : firstly , that the ’ bourgeoisie' always act in concert , and secondly , that the ruling group has control over the statements of major Interest groups within society . |
| 8 | By employing this structured procedure the designer now has control over the data he recalls from the turnkey system . |
| 9 | ( a ) As leader of the party in power , he has been chosen by the electorate , has control over the party machinery and can normally rely on the strength of party loyalty to maintain his position . |
| 10 | Whilst X may be the owner of a hotel managed by Y , Y has control of the premises and Y will be the occupier of the premises . |
| 11 | A learner driver sitting behind the steering wheel is a driver even though the qualified driver has control of the vehicle as well and could also be said to be driving . |
| 12 | This will generally mean that the person who has control of the computer will be the author of any computer-generated work . |
| 13 | Central Government has taken more and more control of what local councils can do , and in particular has control of the amount of money that local councils can spend erm more and more over the years . |
| 14 | Q. Who has control of the Revenue Account and the Sinking Fund ? |
| 15 | If ( the MLTB ) now has control of the MIC and presumably the Single Pitch Scheme , with the guides ' carnet soon to follow , the whole thing will be out of BMC hands . |
| 16 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 17 | American owned rival Whyte and Mackay made its long awaited swoop this morning and now has control of the Leith based company — making the combined group the third biggest scotch whisky firm . |
| 18 | It means that it has control in the context of a market-oriented environment which has a dynamic and fundamental effect on the nature of the budgetary process . |
| 19 | If the bidder is willing to accept minority shareholders , a takeover offer is the easier method of gaining control of the target . |
| 20 | Most of the value in video work remained in the area of classroom organization and the teacher gaining control over the class and facilitating day to day survival . |
| 21 | In taking steps to tighten control over the peasantry and the zemstvos , the government saw itself consolidating the alliance between State and nobility . |
| 22 | If Tanzania 's ban fails to secure the required two-thirds majority , the Cites secretariat is ready to propose a range of measures to tighten control on the trade . |
| 23 | In four states Democratic incumbents were re-elected , while in Delaware , Missouri , and North Carolina the party wrested control of the governorships from the Republicans . |
| 24 | There is a highly organised publishing enterprise which exercises control over the music used by bands and choirs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the event of another company acquiring control of the Company through a takeover or reconstruction , then ( as an alternative to exercising his option as described in paragraph 6 ) a participant may , if the acquiring company so agrees , release his existing option in return for the grant of an option over shares in the acquiring company ( or a parent thereof ) having the same aggregate option prices and the same aggregate market value as the shares the subject of the options released , the new options being generally exercisable on the same terms as the old . |
| 27 | This led to involvement in a wide range of speculative projects throughout Europe , North America , and the West Indies , and the huge resources at his disposal enabled him to embark on a vigorous attempt to secure control over the affairs of the East India Company . |
| 28 | The NPFL 's advance had enabled it to secure control of the port of Buchanan , 100 km south-east of Monrovia , after fierce fighting on May 23 . |
| 29 | However , he always retained control over the issues that he regarded as most important ( which is not to say that they were necessarily the most important in an objective sense ) . |
| 30 | Subsequent reports claimed that Li 's offer had effectively endorsed the status quo under which China retained control over the Aksai-Chin region in northern Kashmir , with India preserving sovereignty over the disputed state of Arunachal Pradesh . |