Example sentences of "[to-vb] control [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were fears that the army and military police would now move quickly to impose control on the Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima , where an estimated 900 Sendero inmates had created no-go areas to emphasize their political status . |
| 2 | The release of a number of Palestinian prisoners from Syrian prisons in March 1991 indicated that a possible thaw in relations was under way , although some commentators claimed that the move was part of a plan by Assad to wrest control of the PLO from Arafat . |
| 3 | The second decree , in 1977 , represented a further attempt by the military government to wrest control from the TNCs , particularly to counter the defensive measures that the TNCs had developed to nullify the effects of the first decree . |
| 4 | AZERBAIJAN : The Christian Armenians are fighting Muslim Azerbaijanis to keep control of the Nagorno Karabakh hills . |
| 5 | Soon after the Persian Wars , as we saw on p. 23 , King Leotychidas of Sparta led an expedition to Thessaly , and ended the tageia of the Aleuads ; at about the same time , Plutarch says , there was a Greek , perhaps a Spartan , fleet at Pagasai , whose strategic importance we have just noticed , and the Spartans tried to get control of the Amphictyony ( see p. 33 ; Plut . |
| 6 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 7 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 8 | One of the last acts of the Directorate of Government Protection before it was abolished [ see above ] was to take control of the Izvestiya publishing house on Oct. 27 . |
| 9 | However , a report in the Washington Post of March 14 claimed that the move marked the start of an ambitious new phase in Syria 's longstanding campaign to take control of the PLO . |
| 10 | The first allowed Ragusa to take control of the Pelješac peninsula on payment of an annual tribute to Tsar Dušan , ruler of the Serbian empire . |
| 11 | In the meantime , they want Israel to give them full authority over all the land in the West Bank and Gaza ( except , temporarily , over the Jewish settlements ) ; to yield control over the West Bank 's water sources ; and to allow an arbitration committee with members from Jordan , Egypt , Russia and America to oversee the interim period . |