I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a control group (=a group used in an experiment or survey to compare its results with those of another group)
▪ A control group had to be examined as well as the group that we are studying.
a controlled experiment (=one that is done using correct scientific methods)
▪ The theory has not yet been tested by a properly controlled experiment.
a controlled substancelaw (= an illegal drug)
▪ He was charged with possessing a controlled substance.
air traffic control
arms control
beyond repair/control/belief etc (=impossible to repair, control, believe etc)
▪ Scott’s equipment was damaged beyond repair.
▪ The town centre had changed beyond all recognition.
▪ Due to circumstances beyond our control, the performance has had to be cancelled.
birth control
▪ a safe method of birth control
border controls (=controls on who crosses a border)
▪ Hungary tightened its border controls.
bring a blaze under control
▪ For more than four hours they battled to bring the blaze under control.
bring a fire under control
▪ Firefighters took more than an hour to bring the fire under control.
carefully planned/chosen/controlled etc
▪ carefully chosen words
closely controlled/guarded/monitored etc
▪ Political activity is closely controlled.
complete control
▪ The police were in complete control of the situation.
control a blaze
▪ It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the hotel.
control freak
control key
control pollution
▪ The water company is failing to control pollution.
control room
▪ the submarine’s control room
control sb's/sth's movement
▪ Some people have trouble controlling their hand movements.
control tower
control...bleeding
▪ Use pressure to control the bleeding.
control/contain your anger
▪ I could not control my anger any longer.
control/contain your excitement
▪ She could hardly control her excitement when I told her the news.
control/curb inflation (=prevent it from increasing more)
▪ These measures are designed to curb inflation.
control/display/filter etc unit
control/keep your temper
▪ She tried to speak calmly and control her temper.
controlled experiment
▪ a controlled experiment to determine the effects of light on plant growth
controlled substance
▪ an arrest for the possession and sale of controlled substances
control/limit emissions
▪ The measures to control carbon dioxide emissions do not go far enough.
controlling interest
▪ The firm paid over $10 million for a controlling interest in five hotels.
control/restrict imports (=reduce or put a limit on them)
▪ The scheme aims to control imports of cheap goods.
cruise control
defence/control/survival mechanism
▪ When a person is ill, the body’s natural defence mechanisms come into operation.
direct control
▪ The state has direct control over certain industries.
draconian measures/controls/penalties etc
▪ draconian measures to control population growth
due to circumstances beyond sb’s control
▪ Occasionally flights are cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.
exchange controls (=limits on the amount of a currency people are allowed to exchange)
▪ The government is going to impose stricter exchange controls.
exercise...control
▪ People who can exercise some control over their surroundings feel less anxious.
exert control
▪ The state should not exert control over the media.
export controls/restrictions/quotas (=official limits on the number of exports)
▪ The European Parliament wants tougher export controls on certain goods.
▪ The number of goods subject to import and export quotas is being reduced.
falls under the control
▪ Meat production falls under the control of the Agriculture Department.
gain control
▪ The government of mainland China gained control of the island in 1683.
give sb control/authority/responsibility etc
▪ She was given absolute control over all recruitment decisions.
ground control
gun control
hold/control the purse strings
▪ It all comes down to who holds the purse strings.
import restrictions/controls (=laws which reduce or limit the amount of imports)
▪ Severe import controls were introduced.
keeping tight control on
▪ The government is keeping tight control on immigration.
lose control of the car (=no longer be able to control its direction)
▪ He lost control of the car on a sharp bend.
loss of control
▪ a certain feeling of loss of control
mission control
passport control
▪ It took us ages to get through passport control.
pollution control
▪ Effective pollution control was not being undertaken.
population control (=controlling how many children people have)
▪ It is argued that population control is essential to limit the depletion of natural resources.
price control
quality control
ran out of control
▪ The truck ran out of control and hit a house.
regain control
▪ The authorities failed to regain control of the situation.
relax rules/regulations/controls
▪ Hughes believes that immigration controls should not be relaxed.
remote control
▪ a missile guided by remote control
rent control
resist/control an impulse (=not do something, even though you have an impulse to do it)
▪ Derek resisted the impulse to eat any more cake.
riot control
▪ All officers are trained in riot control.
seize power/control (of sth)
▪ The rebels have seized power.
sole control/charge
▪ The school was no longer under their sole control.
sovereign power/control
spiraled out of control
▪ Crime has spiraled out of control.
strict control
▪ There must be strict control of local government spending.
take control/charge/power
▪ The communists took power in 1948.
▪ Youngsters need to take control of their own lives.
under control
▪ I’m glad to see that you have everything under control.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ Capital expenditure by local authorities is subject to close central government control.
▪ Without a smart central controller, control can trickle up from the bottom.
▪ The first application to use the services is Tivoli/FSM, which manages Unix client-server file sharing mechanisms from a central control point.
▪ Apparent Disadvantages of Swarm Systems NonoptimalBecause they are redundant and have no central control, swarm systems are inefficient.
▪ Choice of pagers A paging system consists of a central control unit together with a pager for each employee.
▪ They evidently prefer strict discipline and central control to fair competition.
▪ In some other states, however, the movement towards greater system and central control in this respect was more marked.
▪ These are linked up to a central control panel which monitors the entire system.
complete
▪ I used to do it all, I had complete control of the house, now the situation has changed completely.
▪ The state earlier this month gave Brown virtually complete control over Treasure Island.
▪ Neil Kinnock has more complete control over the party than any leader since Attlee.
▪ If the first drug tried does not result in complete control at high therapeutic levels, a second drug should be substituted.
▪ Those who were still in complete control did not manage to survive the food.
▪ Rape offers the illusion of complete control, obtained either by a weapon, physical or verbal intimidation or drugging.
▪ From there on, the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes.
▪ So much for complete bloody control.
direct
▪ One method may be through variations in government expenditure and taxation since these flows are under the direct control of the authorities.
▪ Managers plan, organize, staff, direct, and control.
▪ An important supplement to these direct and internal controls is provided by efficiency audits.
▪ It felt like there was no direct control of the machine.
▪ The second row is about mine clearance, which was until recently under the direct control of the president's office.
▪ But both these target variables are also influenced by variables outside the direct control of the authorities.
▪ In these markets the Bank has no direct control over interest rates.
▪ The resources within the enterprise are under the direct control of the managers of the enterprise.
effective
▪ They none the less strengthened the authority of the republican leaderships as they gradually extended their effective control over local affairs.
▪ We can get effective control on 10 acres a day.
▪ Severe lipaemia in an undiagnosed diabetic will usually resolve with the institution of insulin therapy and effective diabetic control.
▪ Whoever is in charge needs to have effective control over the demand side of education.
▪ By the end of the day Mutalibov had fled and the Front had established effective control throughout the capital.
▪ Investigate environmental sources of infection and formulate effective control measures.
▪ Computers are one of the aids to achieving effective control of costs and time.
▪ But sterilisation is the ultimate means of ensuring effective population control.
financial
▪ Finally, there is a problem associated with financial control.
▪ Legal controls have been supplemented by financial controls, especially over capital expenditure.
▪ For smaller companies, where financial controls are not highly developed, factoring may prove the answer.
▪ The Treasury saw financial control as being concerned with sound finance and above party politics.
▪ Hence, the argument runs, even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services.
▪ These problems remained, even after objectives had been partially clarified and formalized through grant financing and stringent financial controls.
▪ Earlier plans for tighter financial control and greater independence for management had not been successful.
full
▪ The central image is of a man in full control of himself and determined to enjoy the experience.
▪ What mixed cornucopia will the blossoming of full information control bring about?
▪ In the other he remained in full control of events and in full possession of his rightful authority.
▪ Nearly three-quarters of female owners have full control of their businesses, compared with only half of male owners.
▪ However, he went beyond such extensive controls and he exercised full defacto control and the trustees allowed this.
▪ The Republicans may not have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate but they had full control of the media.
▪ Clearly we do not have full control over feelings.
▪ Monopoly or the full control of supply, and hence of price, by a single firm was the ultimate security.
great
▪ Ostensibly this gives greater control, but at considerable cost.
▪ They also enable you to complete your writing projects and have greater control over your deadlines.
▪ This demand has to be made in conjunction with demands for greater control over public housing, by those who inhabit it.
▪ And by using one designer, she gained greater control over leaks about costs.
▪ Such corporations tend to usurp the functions of local elected authorities which are simultaneously subjected to greater central control.
▪ In her mind, the reengineering decision granted her a well-deserved promotion and greater span of control.
▪ This version of WordPerfect provides greater control and flexibility in printing specific pages.
local
▪ I prefer local control rather than big government.
▪ Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control.
▪ The Housing Act 1988 gave further encouragement to the breakup of the large housing estates remaining under local authority control.
▪ This new-found concern with local control over abuses is ironic.
▪ Such local network systems would offer higher efficiency and greater local control of electricity, including generation, delivery and use.
▪ From April next year, further education and sixth form colleges will be independent of local government control.
▪ There seems little hope of local control of health issues in the inner city.
political
▪ This is not entirely the result of political control, since the privately owned press shows no greater inclination towards investigative journalism.
▪ It is more like ordinary political damage control.
▪ They are also the continuing decline of parliamentary politics and political control increasingly orchestrated by a small clique within the Cabinet.
▪ We remain strongly opposed to bringing police forces under total local political control.
▪ The political control of the Bakufu was also weakened.
▪ So long as men will accept religious control not based on reason, they will accept political control not based on reason.
▪ This intervention has the effect both of undermining managerial autonomy and of weakening the coherence of political control by blurring objectives.
remote
▪ The device in the attaché case would be activated by remote control from inside the limousine.
▪ It includes money for new pipes, a remote monitoring and control system and earthquake-safety improvements.
▪ Fixed and variable outputs are fitted for a remote control handset is included.
▪ She jabs at more buttons on the remote control doodad.
▪ No, the sound of crunching from the hallway confirmed that Holmes was having a remote control snack.
▪ There are some versions of remote replay which do give the user complete remote control.
▪ He would need a hired watcher for that, or a camera operated by remote control.
▪ Rust closed the door by remote control then activated his mechanized wheelchair and approached them.
social
▪ The companies' main concerns, however, were with social control of their workforces outside the pits.
▪ Moffett sought to reassure investors that the company had social issues under control.
▪ The church for its part acted as an administrative agency of colonial expansion and a major institution of social control.
▪ Pollution control work, then, is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression.
▪ Social action can never be separated from practical constraints or from social control.
▪ Meanwhile I am drawn into the trees by something that transcends state or social control.
▪ Respectability and social control Changes can be discerned in family patterns by the end of the century.
▪ In addition, farmers can maintain a greater degree of social control over agricultural workers living in tied accommodation.
tight
▪ At no time did the abbey relinquish to these groups any of its tight control over economic life.
▪ Firecracker reacted to the tight control on his whereabouts by trying to elude his protectors.
▪ The need for tighter control of credit was seen as vital.
▪ So the first step in treating peripheral neuropathy is maintenance of tight control of blood glucose levels.
▪ It continues to place strong emphasis on tight cost controls and has seen net assets rise 14% to £26.9m.
▪ So, firms have been trying to keep costs under tight control.
▪ They were also effectively administered, since Henry continued to exert the tight control established by his Yorkist predecessors.
▪ How else, they assume, but tight coordination and control to deal with so many moving parts?
total
▪ By 1973 this measure was considered inadequate and the government took total control of the mining companies.
▪ She exerts total control over her schedule, her programs, and her recordings.
▪ He has total control over the broadcasting media and the government that he laboriously cobbled together over an eight-month period.
▪ Mussina appeared in total control on the mound, cool and efficient.
▪ The Founders now told Pilger that the role they had given him was something less than total editorial control.
▪ The coal industry had no say in running the fund, and Lewis had total control of it.
▪ Manville felt good all over, in total control of himself and any possible situation which could arise.
▪ His was the smug look of a man who knew he was in total control and liked it that way.
■ NOUN
birth
▪ Another method of birth control must be used for a few months until two consecutive tests show there are no sperm left.
▪ The father of six children, he understands the consequences of adhering to the teaching on birth control.
▪ Your partner is also welcome, so why not go along together to discuss the different methods of birth control?
▪ After the 1980 elections, we knew that the rights to both birth control and abortion were at risk.
▪ However unless birth control methods are used, sooner or later the woman is likely to get pregnant.
▪ I wanted a prescription for the pill. Birth control was still illegal then in some states, even for married couples.
▪ There are several birth control methods to choose from.
▪ Even more important, birth control has a crucial escape hatch.
group
▪ Of these the blood film often revealed erythrocytes with multiple pits unlike in the control group where this was unusual.
▪ By contrast, productivity for the control group rose just 3. 9 percent.
▪ A group of young people without Saturday jobs, will act as a control group.
▪ Differences are computed, and the program is deemed a success if the experimental group has improved more than the control group.
▪ As the control group, 100 µmol of Krebs-Ringer solution alone was injected into the left gastric artery.
▪ He did not typically employ elaborate statistics to test hypotheses or use control groups in his research.
▪ Attention is focused on the organization undergoing change, rather than on comparison with any control group.
▪ A coalition of gun control groups and health organizations is using the research on gun deaths from 1986 through 1992&038;.
gun
▪ Its opponents included liberals who were opposed to the death penalty and conservatives who objected to the gun control provisions.
▪ Democrats also intend to push for privacy initiatives and to propose modest gun control measures, party aides said.
▪ We have an attorney general who was a leading opponent of gun control in the Senate.
▪ The obstinate refusal of many males to support gun control is not chiefly a product of conditioning by the weapons industry.
▪ The law was sent for approval to Governor George Deukmejian, a former outspoken opponent of gun control.
▪ The demand for tighter gun control is especially widespread and intense among women.
▪ He would outlaw abortion and end gun control.
▪ But Republicans now in command at the White House and in Congress generally oppose new gun control measures.
mechanism
▪ It is therefore essential that the control mechanisms for each are put in place at the beginning of the design stage.
▪ Teams hold employees to high standards, acting as a more acceptable quality control mechanism than evaluations and orders from the top.
▪ There is now a need for alternative control mechanisms in this new computing environment, one of which is proper personnel controls.
▪ But where are the sensors and the thermostatic control mechanisms?
▪ The traditional budget ensures compliance with the conditions set out in the appropriations; that is, it acts as a control mechanism.
▪ Cell transformation Cancer cells become tumorigenic as a result of multiple independent steps which subvert the normal growth control mechanisms described earlier.
▪ No single control mechanism can ensure efficiency.
▪ The body has to have control mechanisms to regulate all its functions.
panel
▪ He led me to his booth and typed a few keys on the control panel.
▪ Dials twitch in the control panel at the sound of it.
▪ He found sweeping the floor too boring and manoeuvred himself into a role making electrical control panels.
▪ That big control panel with all the handles and cranks.
▪ Great care was taken in the design of the control panel and the instruments mounted on it.
▪ ChromaZone lets you create your own modules with a sophisticated control panel.
▪ All the graphics on the control panel are simple and easily seen, and all the controls have easy-to-understand precision markings.
▪ The control panels have a high-tech look, and you can toggle the heads-up on and off during your flight.
pollution
▪ In the northern agency, about half a dozen districts comprise a pollution control area.
▪ Yet diesel gets off easily when it comes to pollution controls.
▪ Inspectors previously specialised in particular areas of pollution control will be expected to regulate industrial processes presently outside their experience.
▪ He will press for stricter, not more lenient, pollution controls.
▪ Such action represents the adoption of aspects of a second air pollution control strategy - namely, the emission standards strategy.
▪ The lack of money spent on pollution control.
▪ In both agencies there are in effect four senior administrative positions with direct responsibility for pollution control work.
price
▪ The government would end price controls and subsidies to industry, and impose tight budgets and curbs on welfare spending.
▪ The early years of hyperinflation after price controls were eased in 1992 led to backlogs in debts among businesses and the state.
▪ His new government imposed price controls and nationalized businesses.
▪ Doubts were expressed about last week's rumour of moves to end steel price control.
▪ Also on April 27 measures laying down sanctions against speculation and the circumvention of price controls were announced.
▪ He said that the country had surmounted a crucial test when price controls were lifted for most goods in January.
▪ Its members reckon their enterprises have no future without price controls and government subsidies.
▪ In addition to fiscal measures, price controls have sometimes been used as a weapon.
quality
▪ This list can be used in your quality control checks.
▪ Teams hold employees to high standards, acting as a more acceptable quality control mechanism than evaluations and orders from the top.
▪ Within stock control, for example, are supplier ordering, warehouse management and quality control.
▪ The coveted ingredient is discreetly kept in the garage. Quality controls are in place.
▪ Every barrel a different strength, no quality control in those days.
▪ Inevitably review plays a great part in the process of quality control by external agencies.
▪ Education is not a production line, teachers are not operatives, and assessment is more than quality control.
▪ Because its characteristics can be treated mathematically it is central to quality control via samples.
room
▪ I went down to the studio floor from the control room and Michael was very upset at having-to do it again.
▪ It is not unusual for control rooms to be located in another area. perhaps a different floor or building.
▪ In accordance with local procedures, he had locked the control room door to prevent unauthorised access.
▪ You see engineers in the control room.
▪ In the immediate vicinity, sensitive monitors relay readings back to the central control room.
▪ Most astronomers are enclosed in observing cages or in control rooms for most of the time they are observing.
▪ Some of the old hands have got themselves in at the cop stations and traffic control rooms.
▪ A visitor to the control room of this nuclear missile submarine might pass it by without a second thought.
sample
▪ Firstly, however, the crude comparisons between action and control samples in terms of institutionalisation are made.
▪ There is also the possibility that the action and control samples differed in important characteristics.
▪ The scheme was evaluated using a matched control sample of cases from adjacent areas.
▪ Cost differences between action and control samples are shown in Table 6.4.
▪ The differences between action and control samples at the time of referral was unexpected.
▪ Because the control sample of people still at home at second assessment was so small, no conclusions are possible.
state
▪ Stoloyan promised continued state control of prices for basic goods until May 1992.
▪ The nationalization of the electricity sector followed 22 years later, bringing the full energy spectrum under state control.
▪ While they exist to serve public purposes, they are self-governing and only subject to a limited state control.
▪ It talks about only another layer of government and more red tape and state control, not less.
▪ However, there are worries about State control.
▪ Nor has it been the result of government action and state control.
▪ The first of these is characterized by state control of the press and its eventual emancipation from such controls.
▪ The revolution, through state control, has given agricultural labourers greater security and better wages by turning them into state employees.
system
▪ Checking the takings late at night is no substitute for a proper budgetary control system.
▪ We have a flood control system that is severely damaged.
▪ A control system is currently under development for combining the output from the different modules in an intelligent manner. 5.7.
▪ Investigators discovered a malfunction in the propeller pitch control and a worn part in a propeller control system on the left engine.
▪ They give managers additional information on which to base their judgements, but they do not provide a company control system.
▪ Related Occupations Accountants and auditors design internal control systems and analyze financial data.
▪ Mercedes' traction control system is standard.
▪ Gait disorders follow from defects in these control systems.
tower
▪ Birkwood Lock, the first mechanized lock with control tower and traffic light gantry.
▪ He practiced landings on Sunday, then told the control tower that he would fly for another hour.
▪ The control tower staff saw the aircraft making a sharp left-hand climbing turn before it disappeared into thick low cloud.
▪ A window also was blown out of the control tower.
▪ Meanwhile, up in Duxford's control tower, John Allison was anxiously waiting.
▪ The quake shattered windows in the control tower at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and forced the airport's immediate closure.
▪ Soon, Rob would take S-Sugar on to the runway and wait for clearance from the control tower.
traffic
▪ A2 Bay Road, Carnlough - traffic control.
▪ We will reduce airport congestion by increasing the capacity of our air traffic control.
▪ Craigavon Division A27 between Poyntzpass and Newry - traffic control in operation.
▪ They included warning local air traffic control and having hundreds of gallons of water and pumps standing by in case of accident.
▪ Internet traffic control relies on these numbers.
▪ Some of the old hands have got themselves in at the cop stations and traffic control rooms.
▪ I would have needed an air traffic control centre to keep track of where everyone was at any given moment.
▪ The co-operation of air traffic control is central.
unit
▪ Computers with control units implemented in this way are called microprogrammed computers.
▪ The control unit, the motor and the electronic parts of the spindle were imported.
▪ The control unit then enters the execute phase, to carry out the operation decoded in the fetch phase.
▪ The environmental control unit was a squat concrete abutment with metal slotted vents.
▪ A waveform analyser processes the voltage signals and returns Position detector pulses to the control unit at the required Positions.
▪ Several changes in the control unit were made in the 1960s but the technology remained expensive and had relatively little diffusion.
▪ Choice of pagers A paging system consists of a central control unit together with a pager for each employee.
▪ A remote control unit will offer an on-screen menu.
■ VERB
assume
▪ Later in this chapter we will examine the gradual growth of government concern to assume a closer control of the process.
▪ It was still unclear last night, however, which party would assume control of the House.
▪ Many women would assume control of the family business upon the death of a spouse.
▪ Mackenzie assumed direct control, with his partners in subordinate positions.
▪ Then on 13 January 1972 the army dismissed Busia; a group of officers led by Colonel Acheampong assumed control.
▪ Zajedno leaders say they will assume control of Nis city hall next Monday.
▪ Over the following months, de Gaulle assumed total control over political affairs and substantially reduced Giraud's authority as Commander-in-Chief.
▪ In 1909, the U. S. Government assumed control of the leper settlement at Molokai.
bring
▪ It took a long time to bring the fire under control, the local pubs kept open for three days and nights.
▪ All he was trying to do, he says, was bring her under control.
▪ An incendiary device exploded setting fire to furniture, but the blaze was brought under control.
▪ Some 8,000 troops, firemen and police attempted to bring the fire under control.
▪ More than 100 firefighters fought for four hours to bring the blaze under control.
▪ It would be virtually impossible to bring them under the control of one super-agency.
▪ Inflation will be brought under control by the emerging recession.
▪ It took them three hours to bring it under control.
exercise
▪ By exercising muscular control, certain kinds of feeling can be inhibited.
▪ Unless managers see the control process through to its conclusion, they are merely monitoring performance rather than exercising control.
▪ The Bedford Area Guardians Committee continued to exercise control over matters great and small.
▪ The governing body therefore now has much greater potential to exercise control over the life and work of the school.
▪ However, he went beyond such extensive controls and he exercised full defacto control and the trustees allowed this.
▪ This explains why the Commission wishes to exercise some degree of control over the freedom to subsidise.
▪ Messrs Murdoch, Maxwell and Rowland, amongst others, are known to have attempted to exercise control over editorial content.
gain
▪ I started to return well and I gained control of the match.
▪ When Mr Michael Foot became leader, activists gained greater control of the party machine.
▪ But these tiny acts helped women gain some measure of control over our lives.
▪ Fortunately, the investment banks have managed to gain control of the dividends of only big and new companies.
▪ The attack recovered the lost guns and gained control of a good part of the plateau.
▪ Meanwhile both groups began infiltrating the city in an attempt to gain control of key locations.
▪ Soon he would gain control of himself and the role, Logan said.
keep
▪ He found himself struggling with the wheel, fighting to keep the vehicle under control.
▪ The bill would have made changes in the food stamp program but would have kept it under federal control.
▪ But how long could they keep control of the situation?
▪ Some of this was done no doubt to keep control in choppy political waters.
▪ I was desperately trying to keep control but felt horribly threatened.
▪ Anyone can operate a snowmobile, but it takes some guidance to keep them under control.
▪ And smooth, surge-free progressive power delivery to help keep you in control at all times.
▪ Yesterday it had been difficult to keep his thoughts under control.
lose
▪ At that point, humans lose control.
▪ You lose all control, honey, and it just starts to happen.
▪ One was suffering from deep depression, the other believed he was beginning to lose control of his mind.
▪ The attack recovered the lost guns and gained control of a good part of the plateau.
▪ Despite this, they have lost control over who knows what about them.
▪ I almost lost it-I almost lost control of the business I had worked so hard to build.
▪ It is after they have lost control for the second or third time that the real difficulties appear.
maintain
▪ In the second place, it involves some intention to maintain that control on the part of the possessor.
▪ Other legislators say the priority should be maintaining control of U.S. immigration and not rewarding lawbreakers.
▪ We can maintain control of conversation by avoiding other people's agendas.
▪ For Beyster, employee ownership is an effective way to maintain control.
▪ It is difficult to maintain control where a scattered enforcement staff possess high discretion.
▪ Legally, the government was obliged to maintain strong control of transport, making privatisation problematic.
▪ The knowledge workers in the insurance company were responsible for processing this mass of data to maintain operational control of the business.
▪ Weather and sea conditions during the service were extremely hazardous, demanding absolute concentration to maintain control of the lifeboat.
regain
▪ It then demands a mental fight to regain physical control.
▪ All of which sounds a bit fishy -- selling off a chunk of the government to regain control of it?
▪ Fortunately, he quickly regained control, whereas the rest of us lost it permanently.
▪ If Republicans lose 21 seats, the Democrats will regain control of the House.
▪ Having even this amount of control may help you to regain a feeling of control over the whole situation.
▪ Though he lost his job, he regained control of his life.
▪ Nor did Peter regain effective control of his kingdom as Henry, although defeated at Nájera, staged a political comeback.
▪ The monarchists, therefore, decided to turn their support to the Santanistas in an effort to regain control.
retain
▪ I tell Opposition Members that we shall not give way; we shall retain control over public spending.
▪ Symington, of course, wants to retain control of those dollars.
▪ Surely those who retained control over it would do better?
▪ We see then that while some marketers in Huaraz have retained control over their work, others are experiencing proletarianization.
▪ She retains virtual control of her sons, the eldest of whom firmly remains second in line to the throne.
▪ Republicans retained control of the House with at least 225 seats to the Democrats' 204 seats.
▪ In such ways the party retains ultimate control over appointments, transfers, promotions and discipline.
▪ The National Park Service will retain control of open spaces.
seize
▪ But Lynwood appears to be the first city where one minority group -- Latinos -- seized control from another -- blacks.
▪ How did men seize control everywhere and suppress women, keeping them ignorant and enslaved?
▪ We will, within the next fifty years, be able to seize control of our own evolution.
▪ Republicans seized control of both houses of Congress, picking up a whopping 117 House seats along the way.
▪ The army seized control, occupied many campuses, and closed all universities.
▪ Silber will be no more successful at seizing control of education policy statewide.
take
▪ However, Murray International Holdings took control of Rangers late in 1988.
▪ But Alton restricted the opposition to four points in that opening spell and then took control to score four good tries themselves.
▪ I remember feeling complimented that he would let me take control at the most critical part of the flight.
▪ Ershad met with senior Army officers who informed him that they were unwilling to step in and take control of the country.
▪ Schroer will take control of the four Invesco health care funds Feb. 1, the company said.
▪ It was her flat and she was going to take control of what went on in it.
▪ Kobert also asked that a trustee be appointed to take control of the company.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a control freak
▪ Some bosses are control freaks, while others are too unclear about what they want from you.
▪ Am I a control freak just because I want a little order in my life?
assume control/responsibility etc
▪ As a principal, he assumes responsibility for the performance of the entire transportation contract.
▪ But you know already that I am not the sort to assume responsibility for my inconsistencies.
▪ Given a chance to assume responsibility, many do.
▪ In 1991 it assumed responsibility for its own catering, with total revenue increasing by 60 percent partly as a result.
▪ It was still unclear last night, however, which party would assume control of the House.
▪ Then on 13 January 1972 the army dismissed Busia; a group of officers led by Colonel Acheampong assumed control.
▪ Virgin Trains says it would be prepared to assume responsibility for the state of the track over which its trains run.
▪ Zajedno leaders say they will assume control of Nis city hall next Monday.
instrument/control panel
▪ Dials twitch in the control panel at the sound of it.
▪ He hopes, for instance, that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years.
▪ I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.
▪ On Windows 95, go to control panel, then keyboard, then languages, then properties, and there choose Dvorak.
▪ Reaching to the control panel, he flipped the auto-pilot to the off position.
▪ That big control panel with all the handles and cranks.
▪ The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.
reassert your authority/power/control
▪ For the next year the Republican government was obliged to struggle to reassert its authority.
▪ Governments will reassert their control over corporations when people reassert their control over governments.
▪ Historians are divided into two viewpoints about the Tsars ability to reassert his power and avoid revolution.They are the optimists and pessimists.
▪ Louis the Pious, taking Charles with him, moved quickly to reassert his control.
▪ The battered Premier was today desperately trying to reassert his authority after Mr Lamont's devastating attack.
transfer power/responsibility/control (to sb)
▪ In order to transfer control to a new sequence of instructions, a new value must be deposited in the program counter.
▪ Managers are frequently willing to transfer responsibility for performing certain tasks, particularly under supervision.
▪ Pairs of jump instructions were provided to transfer control to the left- or right-hand instruction of a specified store location.
▪ The innovation of transferring responsibility to an indigenous anti-Communist corps had been started too late.
▪ They also achieve another prime objective of Conservative Governments, which is to transfer power from the state to the people.
▪ Yet he is ahead of many heavily funded university labs in attempting to transfer control from humans to machines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Croatian rebels battled for control of Vukovar.
▪ Few people have better ball control than Jordan.
▪ Heads of department can make some decisions, but the chairman has overall control within the company.
▪ price controls
▪ Reynolds struggled for control as he told how much Dinah meant to him.
▪ She hits the ball harder than Sabatini, but lacks her control.
▪ Simmons stopped his battle for control of Lockheed.
▪ The disease robs you of muscle control.
▪ the TV control
▪ They seem to have no control over their children.
▪ Who has control of the budget?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Birth Control Pills and Headache Headaches may rarely occur as a side effect of birth control pills.
▪ Helen, ruffled but in control, hurried into the car.
▪ Others suggested that because of its rigid op-position to birth control, the Church had forfeited its credibility in the reproductive debate.
▪ The building will include an auction hall, valeting and inspection areas, a wash bay and entry control.
▪ The major area of cooperation is infrastructure, mainly pollution and flood control.
▪ The researchers showed cancer develops when the function of oncogenes is disturbed and cells grow without control, the Karolinska Institute said.
▪ The truth is, they are as much outside the control of our destiny as we are.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ It was carefully controlled by time and by geography - a day divided into three eight-hour slots.
▪ As an alternative to episiotomy, the delivery of the head can be carefully controlled.
▪ The patient's respiratory function is carefully controlled and monitored by the anaesthetist throughout the patient's stay in theatre.
▪ He has a new media coach and his public appearances have been carefully controlled.
▪ There was no secrecy about its contents, although it is delivered in limited and carefully controlled amounts.
over
▪ They include giving local forces more control over how they spend money and deploy resources.
▪ By early 1954, the Viet Minh controlled over half the countryside.
▪ We have further increased diversity by: Giving schools control over their own budgets and encouraging new types of school.
▪ I could be happy staying here where you have-more command and control over what goes on around you.
▪ The higher, reasoning brain has handed control over to the instinctive brain.
▪ The downside is that parents lose control over how their kids can spend that money when they turn 18.
▪ Police controls over such gatherings had to be exercised on the spot, rather than in advance.
▪ Managers, supervisors, and the company personnel department will have much less control over hiring decisions.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ It has also shown that they are most effective in situations of crisis because of their ability to initiate and control social interactions.
▪ This rewarded not production but the ability to control production.
▪ The other facet of the relationship is the ability to control subordinates.
▪ Expanded research is needed to better understand these events and enhance our ability to predict and control these infections.
▪ Even when it was defined as the ability to change or control the behaviour of others they felt it was inappropriate.
▪ We have the ability to monitor and control our manpower extremely efficiently be it in terms of numbers, pay or potential or whatever.
▪ Many people are negative about their ability to control their diet.
▪ We also have, for the first time, the ability to control colour mixing through understanding.
activity
▪ Legislation to control mining activity is expected to follow.
▪ Budgets are among the most widely used devices for controlling and coordinating the activities of an organization.
▪ Added to the pressure of development is the lack of a single authority controlling activities in estuarine areas.
▪ Or does performance require a small set of individuals coordinating and controlling the activities of larger numbers of other people?
▪ One possibility is that there are master genes whose products control the activity of many others.
▪ This enabled them to control the activities of people who did not expect the Navigation Acts to be taken seriously.
▪ The LANtastic Network Manager window is displayed only on servers, and is used to control network activities.
▪ Cells thus provide the key to understanding development because their behaviour brings about embryonic development and is controlled by gene activity.
area
▪ Added to the pressure of development is the lack of a single authority controlling activities in estuarine areas.
▪ Classical music was, to begin with, a similarly less controlled area.
attempt
▪ I was involved in an attempt to control mosquitoes by genetic techniques some 12 years ago.
▪ Most Republicans hailed the bill as a reasonable attempt to control costs for businesses, hospitals, insurance companies and ultimately consumers.
▪ Both authors used steroids in an attempt to control the disease process, with some success.
▪ Will the spirit of the constitution justify this attempt to control its words?
▪ It is an attempt to address who controls what is in the production chain of a commodity.
▪ In 1926 the city annexed Watts in an attempt to control black migration into the area.
▪ Instead, it should be seen as a successful attempt to control speeds which would reach unacceptable levels if left unchecked.
▪ My father made no attempt ever to control his rages even though he knew his condition.
authority
▪ If, however, the authorities were to control interest rates, the supply curve might become downward sloping.
▪ It is up to local school authorities to adopt rules controlling the use of such leaves.
▪ The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties.
▪ Educational authorities can control what subjects are taught, what the textbooks contain, and even what the teachers say and do.
▪ The Soviet authorities strictly controlled all telecommunications.
▪ I just want the authority to control my own life.
▪ Added to the pressure of development is the lack of a single authority controlling activities in estuarine areas.
▪ The school argued that its authority to control the curriculum should include extracurricular and co-curricular activities.
behaviour
▪ Eventually, it will also be able to control its own behaviour.
▪ It follows from the foregoing observations that a knowledge of right and wrong has of itself no power to control behaviour.
▪ Hundreds of genes probably control most behaviour patterns.
▪ Drugs used to control behaviour, such as amphetamine derivatives, can be continued during the diet.
▪ Many of these children are put on drugs to help control their behaviour.
▪ Of course all adults should be expected to control their own behaviour while on a flight.
▪ Organizations have traditionally relied on structure and threats of insecurity to control the behaviour of employees.
▪ Even when it was defined as the ability to change or control the behaviour of others they felt it was inappropriate.
company
▪ Railways, airlines, banks, and insurance companies are all controlled by the central regime.
▪ The company controls about 75 percent of the Czech tobacco market.
▪ The few companies that control the brands make the real profits.
▪ Fewer than two dozen large, politically powerful companies control delivery of most of the news and information we receive.
▪ No licence for setting up a joint-venture company is required unless the company will be controlled by non-residents.
▪ The combined company will control more than 5, 900 megawatts of electric-generating capacity worldwide.
drug
▪ Mr Ballantyne said that he ran out of a drug used to control Mr Stockton's epileptic fits.
▪ Many of these children are put on drugs to help control their behaviour.
▪ He was given drugs which controlled this well and had no more health problems for the next four years.
▪ Chronic conditions like diabetes or arthritis require medical treatment including drugs to control them.
▪ Doctors may prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs to control both inflammation and pain.
▪ If this drug fails to control the diabetes than a more potent preparation such as glibenclamide may be required.
effort
▪ He also promised to let the ruble float, giving up all efforts to control its rate against the dollar.
▪ In an effort to control the situation, Sally and Bruno had attempted different approaches.
▪ We redoubled our efforts to control the flood of water that gushes down our field from the mountains behind.
▪ Supporters of this kind of regulatory machismo held out hope that this agreement will revolutionize our efforts to control tobacco.
▪ In a voice that shook in spite of her efforts to control it, she asked if she could see Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple.
▪ As the number of blacks increased alarmingly in the colonies, some southern colonists made efforts to control the slave trade.
▪ It is expected to say that tobacco companies have deliberately thwarted international efforts to control the sale of cigarettes.
flow
▪ Ballvalves A ballvalve controls the flow of water into a cistern.
▪ I usually posted myself then at a busy intersection where a traffic light controlled commuter flow from Newark.
▪ The machine is fitted with a computerised management system to control stock flow.
▪ They controlled the flow of whatever it was the people needed or thought they needed or were persuaded they needed.
▪ But Duran's failure to control his cash flow had him ducking under the ropes again 18 months later.
▪ The outcome demonstrates just how difficult it is becoming for national regulators to control the flow of information.
▪ Interface-the circuit, or physical connection, which controls the flow of data between a computer and its peripherals.
▪ The child is not capable of controlling this flow and will show staining of his or her pants.
government
▪ Fourth, the new media make it far more difficult for a government to control the information available to its citizens.
▪ Today, the government wishes to control local borrowing as part of the attempt to limit the total of public spending.
▪ In the United States the government has attempted to control monopoly primarily in two ways.
▪ A major theme in local government is to control the power of the professional.
▪ The Arizona state government in Phoenix now controls much of what Pima County can do.
▪ Police actions are frequently directed by ruling politicians and the government controls the legislation which grants the army immunity.
▪ Important resources were located nearby in Jaipur: merchants, wool depots, veterinary hospitals and various government agencies to control migration.
mechanism
▪ It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
▪ Physiological mechanisms which control the population dynamics are also subject to variation and selection.
▪ Instead they prefer simply to tinker with the particular mechanisms advocated for controlling corporate managerial power.
▪ Any sense that directorates are a mechanism to control and constrain doctors is likely to provoke problems.
▪ The company fears that uranium dust sealed inside the machine could jam the mechanism that controls the shutters.
▪ Prominent among the protective mechanisms that are controlled by nociceptive neurones is the microcirculation of the gastric mucosa.
▪ However, it was also shown that this gate mechanism was controlled by impulses descending from the brain.
money
▪ It had been found difficult to control money supply and to keep it within target ranges.
▪ Inevitably he ended up controlling their money, and with it their lives.
▪ It has been suggested that the methods of controlling the money supply were at fault.
▪ Prosecutors said Bailey already controlled enough money for the two of them.
▪ Repos are used by central banks to control funds in money markets and fine-tune interest rates.
▪ He stared at the old stooped man with the thinning grey hair and bushy walrus moustache who controlled the nation's money.
▪ The Republican Congress controlled the money and it saw no pressing reason to spend it on any of those courses.
population
▪ This reputation could be tarnished if adequate steps are not taken to control the rodent population.
▪ The first was the discovery that parasites can control populations and cause them to go in cycles.
▪ To the outsider, the civilian, beat work was directed at controlling the street population.
▪ Physiological mechanisms which control the population dynamics are also subject to variation and selection.
▪ A psychological war is going on, one that controls the population by disrupting communities and instilling a climate of mistrust.
▪ Lotka and Volterra were interested in knowing whether parasites could stably control populations of hosts.
▪ Shooting is often proposed as a method of controlling the fox population.
▪ In contrast to this, extrinsic factors like food supply and predation are held by other workers to control the population cycles.
power
▪ It follows from the foregoing observations that a knowledge of right and wrong has of itself no power to control behaviour.
▪ And even where unions still do exist, they have lost much of their power to control wages or negotiate working conditions.
▪ But the political authorities still of course have considerable power to control the railways.
▪ Skiing is vigorous exercise, and it takes muscle power to control your skis on a downhill run.
▪ However, as we have seen, central government has always had power to control capital spending and still does.
▪ These demanding children know that they have the power to control their parents.
▪ No form of monitoring is effective unless there is implicit within the manager's power an ability to control and introduce change.
▪ No mercy, no power but its own controls it.
process
▪ The crystalline post is controlled by special bond chemistry under controlled process conditions.
▪ Who is controlling the editorial process?
▪ Both authors used steroids in an attempt to control the disease process, with some success.
▪ Who controls the budgetary process itself and what means do they use to do so? 5.
▪ This information could then be used by those controlling the production process to take appropriate corrective action.
▪ They are evaluated and yet play no part in defining the criteria, determining the methods, or controlling the process.
▪ It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning.
▪ Give illustrations of how the behaviour of individuals can affect the planning and control process.
supply
▪ It had been found difficult to control money supply and to keep it within target ranges.
▪ The Fed sets monetary policy by controlling short-term inter-est rates and by trying to control the supply of money.
▪ It has been suggested that the methods of controlling the money supply were at fault.
▪ She does not simply restore plant life, but teaches the secrets of agriculture, giving humans control over their food supply.
▪ To talk about controlling the money supply is too vague.
▪ What are the limitations on these methods of controlling the money supply?
▪ Why does an unstable demand for money make it difficult to control the supply of money?
system
▪ I now turn to the third of my questions: what controls the whole system?
▪ It is a political project exhibiting all the characteristics of a centrally controlled socialist economic system.
▪ Conclusion Our results support Internet-based prescription of sildenafil utilizing a physician designed and controlled information and decision system.
▪ They are used to trying to control systems where accurate calculation of the best solution is either impossible or takes too long.
▪ The Cutler Toy Company will be used to illustrate the use of a short-term financial planning and control system.
▪ Ensure that you are familiar with any heating controls the system may have such as a time clock or programmer.
temper
▪ This is how I put it: Andrew has not yet learned to control his temper.
▪ I just sat there stewing in the front seat, trying to control my temper and figure out what had gone wrong.
▪ It had been with supreme effort that he had controlled his temper.
▪ In fact, I sometimes wondered how I controlled my temper when I was in his presence.
▪ In complete contrast to Laura, Bernard had never seen the need to control his temper.
▪ In the last eight months of the marriage, he couldn't control his temper.
▪ If you can't control your temper you'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink.
■ VERB
seek
▪ What element of the monetary system should the government seek to control?
▪ Mr Morgado said that the group would seek a controlling interest in companies and that it would play an operating role.
▪ Only through unity and collective resistance can these people stand up to the powerful interests that seek to control their lives.
▪ There are too many forces we do not control - nor indeed seek to control.
▪ For the old polycentric system of the Council they sought to substitute departments controlled by ministers.
▪ Such an immaculately synchronised performance between two figures seeks totally to control and condition our attention.
▪ Accordingly, they can be ignored by monetary authorities seeking to control the overall price level.
▪ It is because the men here are too often afraid of women and seek to control them.
try
▪ She was trying to control him, like all women he had known.
▪ The more I try to control my panic, the worse it becomes.
▪ The more we try to control nature, the more fearful we are that nature will answer our interference with violence.
▪ He is unable to repeat his success. all possible combinations are not tried in a controlled manner.
▪ If the pack has become too big and unmanageable, the dominant male must spend all his time trying to control it.
▪ When making bread, you try to control only one kind of organism.
▪ Maybe I wasn't fully asleep - you know that half-waking state where you try to control the direction of your dream?
▪ Any U.S. city trying to control development needs luck.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a control freak
▪ Some bosses are control freaks, while others are too unclear about what they want from you.
▪ Am I a control freak just because I want a little order in my life?
instrument/control panel
▪ Dials twitch in the control panel at the sound of it.
▪ He hopes, for instance, that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years.
▪ I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.
▪ On Windows 95, go to control panel, then keyboard, then languages, then properties, and there choose Dvorak.
▪ Reaching to the control panel, he flipped the auto-pilot to the off position.
▪ That big control panel with all the handles and cranks.
▪ The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a radio-controlled car
▪ A valve controls the flow of water into the main tank.
▪ He was having trouble controlling the heavy truck on the slippery road surface.
▪ Health-care reform is intended to control costs and provide medical care for everyone.
▪ I wish he'd learn to control his temper.
▪ If you can't control your dog, you should put it on a leash.
▪ If you can't control your temper, you don't belong in this line of work.
▪ Insulin controls blood sugar levels in the body.
▪ Many U.S. corporations are controlled by foreign companies.
▪ Miss Weston is having difficulty controlling the children in that class.
▪ Nathan tried to control his crying.
▪ Oloco is a huge company, controlling over half the world's oil trade.
▪ Republicans controlled more than two-thirds of the Senate.
▪ She's a good driver and controls the car very well.
▪ She exercises to control her weight.
▪ She was really annoying me, but I managed to control myself and not say anything.
▪ The area is now controlled by rebels.
▪ The export of these devices is strictly controlled.
▪ The finance committee controls the club's budget.
▪ The fire was controlled later Tuesday night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because homosexuals do not control society, they are more victims than agents of its decay.
▪ My view of the future is controlling illegal immigration but respecting people who are legally here.
▪ The desire of Congress to control the expenditure of the indemnity payments had resulted in the failure of the National Bank bill.
▪ The nanobots might be controlled by on board molecular microcomputers linked by radio to a base computer.
▪ The number of lines to the inch controls the coarseness of the final dot formation.
▪ Whereupon those High Masters - the self-proclaimed servants of the Emperor - could control the entire human species galaxy-wide, almost instantaneously.