Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] doors [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading .
2 WHAT a delightful coup by the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , to open its doors to the Maryinsky Theatre , St Petersburg , in a Royal gala celebrating the Russians ' renaming both the theatre and its city with their original title .
3 LORD 'S — the home of cricket — could be about to open its doors to baseball .
4 The sweeping changes in our continent mean that the European Community that we have created will need to open its doors to new members in the near future .
5 As a result of the Quality Development Programme , therefore , SCOTVEC will be required to open its doors to auditors from an ‘ awarding body ’ : an experience that many centres will recognise !
6 ‘ I think the full list would lose its stature if it was just to open its doors to everything .
7 The college had been one of the last to open its doors to women students , and she could see why .
8 A new university is due to open its doors by September and a £2m scheme to revamp Stockton High Street is already underway , with an improvement scheme planned for Thornaby .
9 The centre was not able to open its doors until 3pm on Saturday because its computer failed .
10 Is n't it a bit barmy to send them packing while we continue to open our doors to down-and-out foreigners with hard-luck stories whose only two words of English are Social Security ?
11 But the final branch of the business , which opened in Darlington in 1945 , is to shut its doors by May this year .
12 The upper classes , who are just as exotic and who theoretically are of crucial importance for understanding the mechanism of social structure , tend to shut their doors on the enquiring social scientist .
13 As a church are we willing to accept the rule of the Prince of Peace and the power of the resurrection or do we prefer to shut our doors to the pains of the poor and pretend they are not there Pause
14 The Marshal had seen them as they stood gossiping in the street at an equal distance between the two buildings so as to keep their doors in view , but it would be a waste of time trying to get her to admit it .
15 In 1982 Barclays became the first bank to re-open its doors on Saturday mornings , and the other high street banks soon followed suit .
16 A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time .
17 The work of professional thieves has forced an Oxford College to close its doors to casual tourists .
18 Opponents of the curfew claim that forcing every bar to close at one time or , as proposed , requiring nightclubs to close their doors at 1.30 while allowing drinking until 3am or 4am , would lead to a flood of pub-goers hitting the streets at once , exacerbating the problem .
19 FOR THE first time in English legal history , judges ' decisions to close their doors to the Press and public have been challenged in the Court of Appeal .
20 It was said that the working people of London had no need to bolt their doors at any time .
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