in charge
in tears
in danger
at war
by heart
beyond control
on time
by car

However, if we mean a specific kind of car, control, war etc. we use an articleAny of the words "a", "an" and "the", used to limit or give definiteness to a noun. "A" and "an" are indefinite articles, while "the" is a definite article. E.g.: A man was standing on the platform. ("a", "the"):

We drove in a red car.
Hurricanes are beyond the control of governments.
He got wounded in the second world war.

The zero article with places
The zero article (-) The zero article with certain nouns