Example sentences of "[vb past] open up [art] " in BNC.

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1 The criterion-basis of the new examination seemed to open up the possibility of an assessment system that would be public , open , and uniform , yet applicable to virtually all pupils in school , whatever their ability .
2 The thugs pounced as Tony McLoughlin prepared to open up the school shortly after 7am .
3 He realised that he 'd opened up a can of worms .
4 ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’
5 The 33-year-old regular No. 3 took the helm at first string , and proceeded to open up an early lead for his side with a fine win over Neil Shorrock .
6 Only in this way , Brunner felt , could a theology based , quite properly , on the revelation in Jesus be preserved from operating in a vacuum , and enabled to open up the apologetic and educational perspectives essential to the missionary and pastoral work of the church .
7 The agricultural improvements resulting from drainage did open up the possibility of betterment for the small man , as well as for the great landowners .
8 Coming round the final bend he had opened up a substantial lead and seemed to be coasting home .
9 But the preacherman had opened up a crack , and got into her greymass .
10 The forces of federation and supranationalism were in disarray , and at the time it seemed natural to conclude that the whole momentum of European integration was lurching to a halt , in particular because the EDC debacle had opened up a rift between France and West Germany .
11 Discovery of the micro-organic causes of disease and the mode of their transmission had opened up a domain which ‘ to the minds of our immediate ancestors seemed almost outside of the knowable ’ .
12 In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal .
13 With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead .
14 In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing .
15 Leicester went into the game inspired by four wins in five games , a run that had opened up the possibility of a hat-trick of promotion successes for manager Brian Little after taking Darlington from the Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in the last two seasons .
16 Ivory reached the west partly from Egypt but also , after the Arab conquerors of North Africa had opened up the trans-Saharan route from Tunisia by way of Chad to the Niger , directly from equatorial Africa .
17 However , the president of the National Reconciliation Commission , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , asserted that " important progress " had been made , which had opened up the prospect of a comprehensive agreement on human rights .
18 He had opened up the passenger door for her .
19 Mr Morrison said the independence movement had opened up the possibility of former Eastern bloc countries becoming big players in the drug trade : ‘ Poland , for example , is now a major manufacturer of amphetamine . ’
20 Turning to propaganda , the government attempted to open up the constitutional issues and the Home Secretary , Sir William Joynson-Hicks put the matter starkly , if exaggeratedly , when he commented , at a meeting on 2 August 1925 at Northampton that :
21 ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese .
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