Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] control [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Indian , Malay , Arab and Chinese merchants had by and large traded peacefully for the exotic treasures of the islands since before the time of Christ , the marauding European buccaneers sought to own and control the real estate itself , and began four centuries of infighting . |
| 2 | To plan and control the effective exploitation of oceans . |
| 3 | In the new global situation , there is a general loss of confidence in the ability of any agency to predict or control the future course of world events . |
| 4 | The forged document , the so-called " Donation of Constantine " , which was drawn up before the mid-eighth century , when the papacy was anxious to use and control the Frankish leaders , claimed that Constantine had given his imperial palace of the Lateran and dominion over " the city of Rome and all the places , cities and provinces of Italy and the West " to Pope Sylvester , handing the pope his imperial insignia and symbols — the lance , sceptre , orb , imperial standards , purple-scarlet mantle , imperial pallium and tunic . |
| 5 | However , in general , the methods traditionally used by engineers to manage and control the large number of complex and interacting factors contributing to design tend to be qualitative and involve value judgements , the lessons of experience and ultimately pragmatism . |
| 6 | A working party of professional staff has been set up to devise and control the resulting programmes ’ … |
| 7 | ‘ These attempts to check and control the growing picture often led Zuwaya to correct and modify , to elaborate and qualify the image . |
| 8 | The conclusion to be drawn from one theory is that attempts to restructure the welfare state helped to generate forms of ‘ territorial ’ resistance ( Rhodes ) , while from the other , this is merely the latest in a continuing series of attempts by UK central governments to overcome and control the differentiated demands of a series of local governments with their own local bases of political support ( Duncan and Goodwin ) . |
| 9 | Basically , the projected dichotomy of the model rests on the assumption that every society recognizes a distinction between culture and nature , with ritual being the outer manifestation or expression of this recognition and representing culture 's need to regulate and control the passive functioning of its opposite , nature — ‘ nature ’ itself , of course , being a construct of ‘ culture ’ . |
| 10 | Such piecemeal , not to mention conflicting , management of the marshes was no way to organize and control the ever-threatening flood-waters ; and from the mid-thirteenth century , the responsibility for land drainage and reclamation from the sea began to devolve upon successive ‘ commissions of sewers ’ , which were answerable to central government . |
| 11 | The source of these conflicts was the differing measures of willingness or otherwise of individuals or groups to suppress and control the inborn tendencies to satisfy the evolutionary appetites . |