Example sentences of "has [verb] control " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has installed control software to ensure that engineers can be on site in four hours if necessary . |
| 2 | It has won control of a number of trade unions , including the accountants ' union and the committee of local United Nations employees . |
| 3 | It 's an unfortunate state of affairs , but I do n't think anybody in this country has got control over it . ’ |
| 4 | By contrast , the radical position has interpreted control as suppression , and has focussed attention on the ways in which lawyers appropriate the right to know what their clients need . |
| 5 | In the UK , since 1979 , central government has tightened control over local authority spending . |
| 6 | Whenever you find yourself being busy-busy yet getting nowhere , you can be sure that your ‘ clutterbug ’ has taken control and that you are running away from change . |
| 7 | The LDDC has taken control of the Docklands Light Railway from London Underground and has made some progress . |
| 8 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 9 | The rhetorical innuendo suggests that a foreign religion ( Judaism ) has taken control of the financial life of the country . |
| 10 | No party or coalition has taken control in Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | The body has to have control mechanisms to regulate all its functions . |
| 12 | But now Mr de Klerk has lost control of the South African Broadcasting Corporation . |
| 13 | Does he also agree that one state which does not meet the generally accepted criteria for recognition is the federal state of Yugoslavia , which has lost control of its own army ? |
| 14 | Leading anti-European John Carlisle said : ‘ The PM has lost control . |
| 15 | Lord Parkinson says Government has lost control |
| 16 | The former Conservative Cabinet Minister , Lord Parkinson , has said the the Government has lost control and that John Major is to blame . |
| 17 | Mr Smith launched a stinging attack on John Major , ridiculing him as a man who has lost control of events . |
| 18 | The latest revelation about the Government 's courting of minority parties came amid persistent speculation at Westminster that , on the Europe question , Mr Major has lost control and is effectively running a minority Government . |
| 19 | No one group has established control over the country . |
| 20 | Changes to back washing of caustic filters has improved control of the concentrations and cut sodium hydroxide losses by more than half : — from 7.6 tonnes per day on-line in 1989 to 2 . |
| 21 | As will be seen in 4.4 below , however , where Newco is to acquire Target rather than its business and assets , management strictly need to subscribe their shares in Newco once Newco has acquired control of Target . |