Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] control [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be suggested that the disempowerment of parents arises from a combination of LEAs seeking to maintain control over the distribution of resources and professionals seeking to secure the autonomy of their professional role . |
| 2 | We have seen that war leaders of the late Middle Ages sought the achievement of their military aims either through the devastation of the countryside or , in certain circumstances , by seeking to gain control of the towns and castles which dominated it . |
| 3 | This might be taken to imply that the surgery had prevented one side of the brain from attempting to assume control of the mechanisms for speech output . |
| 4 | and w w w we are either half controlled or we 're , we can now see that you know the civil war is , is going so quickly our way that we are going to have control within a year or so we are likely to have control over the economy as a whole . |
| 5 | We are never going to take control over the direction of IT developments . |
| 6 | They told me they were going to take control of the ship and become pirates . |
| 7 | As in the Statute of Labourers in England immediately following the Black Death , a ruling class was attempting to reassert control in a situation where its grip had been temporarily shaken and labour shortage threatened . |
| 8 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 9 | One or two of the gentle , giant horses snorted in fear , but they allowed her to lead them to the safety of the barn , while Seb was struggling to maintain control of the hunters . |
| 10 | The scene might have been absorbing had I not been fighting to keep control of the wheelbarrow . |
| 11 | Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister , Ahmad Shah Masood . |