Example sentences of "[adv] open to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | REGRESSION therapy became popular in the 1960s and early '70s but was later largely discredited , mainly because it is so open to abuse , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 2 | Yeah , you see the trouble is though we 're so open to abuse . |
| 3 | Yet the problem they faced over letting their daughter go out which now , with hindsight , leaves them so open to criticism , is a very familiar one for parents . |
| 4 | I am so open to temptation , Angel ! |
| 5 | The function of certain artefacts is less open to interpretation . |
| 6 | Their curriculum materials , however , stand in sharp contrast to this rationale , and their texts are no less open to criticism than those of other subjects . |
| 7 | Had the Plowden Report received more support from politicians , academics and educationalists and had its recommendations been applied rather more vigorously across the country , I think our primary schools would today be much less open to criticism . |
| 8 | The conflation of the two confuses the issue , and reinforces the tendency for the behaviour to be reduced to an inner state — and hence rendered less open to investigation . |
| 9 | With one exception , the Ken Mentle Cup is only open to school sides in the Whaddon and Mitchley area . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ The conference is not only open to Quality Circle members but anybody interested in team participation . |
| 11 | As we shall see in Chapter 4 , hand-held shots taken at extreme telephoto ranges can be pretty wobbly affairs , so the practical value of extended zoom ranges is somewhat open to question , though electronic zooms can be used for the creation of special effects . |
| 12 | Whether he would put those figures in the same places tomorrow is perhaps open to question . |
| 13 | How much reliance can be placed on the details of the story is perhaps open to question , but it seems safe to conclude that Molla Fenari and Haci Ivaz were indeed enemies , for whatever reason . |
| 14 | The price is generally open to negotiation so feel free to haggle . |
| 15 | However , Finlay J held that the matter was no longer open to argument : the law was settled in Drummond v Collins and reaffirmed later by Rowlatt J in Lord Tollemache v IRC 11 TC 277 . |
| 16 | As a result he reaches a conclusion , which may seem astonishing , though is easily open to misinterpretation , ‘ The truth is that catallaxics is the science which describes the only overall order that comprehends nearly all mankind , and that the economist is therefore entitled to insist that conduciveness to that order be accepted as a standard by which all particular institutions are judged . ’ |
| 17 | The value , relevance and potential of this form of marketing is still largely open to question in the UK . |
| 18 | While the notion of ‘ deliberately causing harm ’ may be central to a culture 's concept of aggression , actual instances of ‘ aggressive conduct ’ are always open to interpretation and reinterpretation . |
| 19 | But the political and military efficacy of the pacts was always open to doubt . |
| 20 | What you have written already and what you plan to write in the future are always open to revision , though such possible revisions will be constrained by their mutual effect on each other . |
| 21 | How accurate such figures are is always open to question , though . |
| 22 | What he or she has to say is always open to comment , questioning , refutation . |
| 23 | While such estimates are always open to dispute of all kinds , it should be noted that the experiments involved a scheme more like a social dividend , with the income guarantee being set near or at , and the marginal tax rate was a high one at 50 per cent . |
| 24 | For although British Rate and Data ( BRAD for short ) gives information on rates , these are always open to negotiation , and discounts can be arranged for a number of reasons . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is still open to question whether these arrangements are an adequate substitute for parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 26 | This research was stimulated by a recognition that we might have a rare opportunity , through being granted privileged access to assault victims in a busy hospital accident and emergency department , to study serious assaults which may or may not have been reported to the police and , therefore , the definition of which as crimes is still open to question . |
| 27 | Precisely how the urban system worked is still open to speculation . |
| 28 | Of course , even if accurately transmitted the reliability of this poetry is still open to doubt . |
| 29 | Although both of these may have been indirect or possibly unintended consequences of the legislative change , homosexuality was still open to interpretation in law as immoral and corrupting . |
| 30 | This subtly psychological approach , no doubt based on much headbanging in the advertising agency , was nonetheless open to parody ( see pages 82–3 ) . |