Example sentences of "controlled by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country , formerly a colony , now ‘ independent ’ , is controlled by a black ‘ big man ’ in the capital down-river . |
| 2 | With strong winds , the tendency to swing into the wind is far more pronounced , and after landing the swing can not always be controlled by full rudder . |
| 3 | In this system the speed is largely controlled by the glider pilot . |
| 4 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 5 | If surprise were a central system function then we would not , indeed , blink because the blink would be controlled by our knowledge of a friend 's good nature . |
| 6 | Anglia controls East Anglia lines of Network SouthEast serving the London commuter area more locally than they were being controlled by the Eastern at York . |
| 7 | The doors between end vestibules and saloons are now controlled by push buttons instead of floor sensors , but how do you press the button if both hands are carrying luggage or a tray meal from the buffet ? |
| 8 | Thus when using glissades the choreographer must decide whether they are to be darted. and controlled by careful spacing to close in an elegant 5th position , or glided smoothly with a gentle rise and full , or danced in such a way that they give impetus to propel the dancer upwards into the step of elevation . |
| 9 | He did this without ever losing sight of the contrasts he made between steps of each sequence because these were controlled by the particular rhythm , tempo and quality of the music . |
| 10 | At first CAMRA was run on a purely voluntary basis , controlled by an elected national executive . |
| 11 | The stroke rate is controlled by squeezing the trigger , and a particular stroke rate can be pre-selected by turning a small thumb wheel situated on the trigger . |
| 12 | The pickup coil signals connect to analogue switches controlled by the first ( and higher frequency ) bistable in the driving divider chain , in order to isolate only those signals which coincide with the saturation waveform transitions . |
| 13 | Probably the main reason is the number of printers controlled by RS232 communications using 7 bits plus parity . |
| 14 | Writing head S is attached to lightweight plate P , which is axially supported by wire W. Plate P is capable of angular rotation about axis W , controlled by the silk fibres x and y which are attached to opposing corners of the galvanometer coil . |
| 15 | It all became feasible with the thermionic valve , introduced during WW1 , which rapidly and irrevocably supplanted all other methods of audio amplification , including the electromechanical types ( one of which used compressed air controlled by an electromagnetic air valve ) . |
| 16 | New York-based Metromedia is controlled by businessman John Kluge . |
| 17 | The Leftist Unity party is , in effect , led and controlled by the Spanish Communist Party , but Mr Anguita has wisely realised that this new name is less dangerous . ’ |
| 18 | It would be a joint venture , the exchange indicated , with the exchange perhaps owning 40 per cent with the remainder controlled by 20 or more institutions , such as banks , registrars , securities houses and large financial institutions as well as some listed companies . |
| 19 | At Mr Ramirez 's request he also transmitted $60,000 from WedTech to a company controlled by the official after he left the government . |
| 20 | Some say the escalators are controlled by the cones which march up and down the M1 , but I find this fanciful . |
| 21 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 22 | The company is controlled by a US group that is up for sale and has said it wants to sell AMI . |
| 23 | Mr Shute has had an impressive track record with BM , which he was appointed to when it was controlled by Beazer and which has thrived while Beazer 's fortunes wained until Beazer severed the connections earlier this year . |
| 24 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |
| 25 | The same technology will allow machines to be controlled by voice command in the dark or where the operator 's hands are full . |
| 26 | His death brings to at least 118 the number of those killed in Transcaucasia since Armenia 's campaign for the return of a territory controlled by Azerbaijan began in February 1988 . |
| 27 | The buyer , Financiere Sicli , controlled by a group of investors including Bankers Trust and Wasserstein Perella , was formed especially for the acquisition . |
| 28 | Without proof that money was paid into an account controlled by Mr Gandhi , there is little doubt that the Prime Minister will be able to continue resisting calls for his resignation . |
| 29 | He may also have to fight off a takeover bid — Fininvest , the Milan-based media company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi revealed a 1 per cent holding last week . |
| 30 | They provided more circumstantial evidence that , despite official denials in Stockholm and New Delhi , big bribes were paid to companies controlled by Indian agents . |