Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] control [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And once they are permitted to produce their babies , will they have to accept constant control over the way they care for them ? |
| 2 | They are engaged in a kind of war game and one of their principal aims is to move with impunity in the sections of stadia favoured by home fans like themselves and to establish momentary control over the city centre pubs and other areas favoured by their home counterparts . |
| 3 | In 1783 his father 's will enabled him to establish full control of the business . |
| 4 | Mr Louis-Dreyfus , who graduated from Harvard with an MBA , promised to tighten budgetary control throughout the group . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very difficult , as you can well imagine , for a parent to exercise proper control over the friendships of a daughter who insists on following a career . |
| 6 | Sadly , for a number of reasons , Parliament was unable to exercise adequate control over the contents of the Bill . |
| 7 | Feudal societies established in Europe a social structure where states were underdeveloped and hence unable to exercise direct control over the population . |
| 8 | This attempt to assert baronial control of the king 's officers , reminiscent both of the Provisions of Oxford and the Ordinances , was the most far-reaching of all the demands made during the crisis of 1339–41 . |
| 9 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |
| 10 | Like them , we shall continue to decide the nature of our dealings with regimes which come to power unconstitutionally in the light of our assessment of whether they are able of themselves to exercise effective control of the territory of the State concerned , and seem likely to continue to do so . |
| 11 | Jordan was able to exercise considerable control of the West Bank 's agricultural economy through this Council . |
| 12 | We should , however , briefly note that because of their dependence on inside management for their tenure of office , their likely minority position , and the absence of a legal specification of the monitoring function and of the powers necessary to perform it , the potential for non-executive directors to exercise meaningful control over the executive members of the board will usually be slight . |
| 13 | The founders send delegates to the bank 's assembly , which is supposed to exercise ultimate control over the bank 's affairs and to elect its director and its ‘ credit committee ’ . |
| 14 | The other point of view was that the origin and route of funding , whether it be via Jordanian or Israeli authorities , or from an external funding agency — even Palestinian nationalist sources — necessarily implied a kind of patronage which was bound to strengthen external control over the community . |
| 15 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |
| 16 | Ideally the vendor will wish to retain absolute control over the way in which the business is managed . |
| 17 | However , the ruling junta ( the National Peace-Keeping Council — NPKC ) , ensured that it would determine the shape of the future political system and if necessary would employ harsh measures to retain full control of the country prior to a fresh general election . |
| 18 | who shall spend sufficient time at such office to ensure adequate control of the staff employed there and afford requisite facilities for consultation with clients . |
| 19 | During the campaign she had a high-profile role as the woman who was prepared to keep tight control over the purse strings and demonstrate Labour 's readiness for Government by rejecting demands from her Shadow Cabinet colleagues for excessive spending . |
| 20 | It was and stili is the extraordinary pictorial value of the linear patterns and forms created by Nijinska for Les Noces which emphasises more clearly than any other ballet the need for every choreographer to keep strict control over the mass of material needed to make a single work . |
| 21 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 22 | This form of internal organization arises from the need to maintain direct control of the activity of employees , indirect control via incentive schemes not being possible ( we refer below to some of the issues that arise in the attempt to devise such incentive structures ) . |
| 23 | Even so , the limits are shown by management 's determination to maintain tight control over the terms of the effort bargain in newly extended job roles , both by improved measurement of individual productivities and the retention of strict disciplinary rules on the shopfloor , and by the manual unions ' hostility towards the Employee Involvement programme . |
| 24 | At the second level , operational information is the raw data which workers of the organisation process to maintain operational control of the enterprise . |
| 25 | The knowledge workers in the insurance company were responsible for processing this mass of data to maintain operational control of the business . |
| 26 | An entrepreneur who wishes to have full control over the management of an enterprise may well opt for sole trading as the only form which offers sufficient freedom of action . |
| 27 | Overall the practice should have a monthly report of the periodic and cumulative value of job completions with budget comparisons to assist general control of the business . |
| 28 | Observers noted that the government appeared to have adopted a dual " soft-hard " approach , attempting to maintain strict control over the country , including the political system , the media and the economy , while giving some ground to calls for change . |
| 29 | Experience in the United States of America , where legislative history has for many years been much more generally admissible than I am now suggesting , shows how important it is to maintain strict control over the use of such material . |
| 30 | In order to be an occupier a person had to have sufficient control over the premises . |