Example sentences of "open [coord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the street opposite the painted colonnades leads into the square where more and more food stalls are opening and the housewives are already busy marketing . |
| 2 | The JUMNA ( Junction Minimisation of Nucleic Acids ) program , described in detail in earlier publications ( 15–19 ) , has already been employed for studying base sequence effects within the various allomorphs of DNA and RNA , the conformation and stability of triple helices , the mechanism of base pair opening and the specificity of DNA-drug interactions . |
| 3 | The downside of being so quick was that it was an hour before the pub was supposed to open and the support vehicle to arrive . |
| 4 | She heard the companionway doors open and the hatch slide back . |
| 5 | ‘ That moment was the key , one of those moments when the heavens open and the choirs sing . ’ |
| 6 | At that moment the door to one of the partitioned offices opened and a stout , smartly suited figure emerged . |
| 7 | This door had now been opened and a man stood therein , staring . |
| 8 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 9 | The club-house door had opened and a man came carefully out . |
| 10 | The doors opened and a man appeared with a bull 's eye lantern . |
| 11 | I toyed with the idea of walking the station to meet him , but , having a sore throat and an impending cold , had gone out to get cough sweets from the ‘ Paki shop ’ just before it closes at 10pm and , coming up the street , the heavens opened and a mass of snow began to fall , so I came in and stayed in , so that 's freshly home made onion soup was ready as he came up the stairs . |
| 12 | Beginning with the publication of Lady Chatterley 's Lover , she argues , the floodgates to total permissiveness were opened and a society in which ‘ the permissive intellectual 's anything goes ’ was created . |
| 13 | The first harbinger of the outside world came when the bedroom door suddenly opened and a maid came in with a tray . |
| 14 | At that moment , when the fate of Ramlal 's co-operative hung in the balance , the door of the inner office suddenly opened and a woman rushed out still in full flow against the Registrar . |
| 15 | ‘ We were singing our hearts out when the door suddenly opened and the headmaster brought the news . ‘ |
| 16 | But ahortly after the heavens opened and the river level rose so high the work had to be abandoned . |
| 17 | The magnificent Tijou gates of the main entrance were no longer opened and the drive to the house was greening with disuse . |
| 18 | What if on March 25 , the envelope were opened and the winner was n't you ? |
| 19 | ‘ I was n't really — it was something else — ’ The doors opened and the visitors surged forward . |
| 20 | Regional tipsters are starting to talk about Vietnam , where the first language schools have opened and the US trade embargo is likely to be lifted . |
| 21 | When the train emerged from the tunnel the tanks were opened and the steam released . |
| 22 | The Adjutant even permitted himself a rueful grin just as the office door itself opened and the CO strode in . |
| 23 | The doors opened and the driver stared at him expectantly , and Zen got in . |
| 24 | Answer guide : A new asset account for Tubing should be opened and the £2,500 should be included here with the bank account being reduced accordingly . |
| 25 | In the springtime , after the irrigation channels had been opened and the paddy fields flooded , Kalchu would plough the mal into the soft wet earth , ready for the rice to be transplanted . |
| 26 | It was then my father ordered the gates to be opened and the dogs turned loose on the crowd outside . |
| 27 | Almost every member of staff , including people who normally spend all day in the office , was involved in cutting raw squid and fish into slivers for the babies and at feeding time , every 4 hours day and night , each little bill had to be opened and the food introduced down the throat in the way the mother bird would have fed the chick . |
| 28 | When acceleration or deceleration is complete the transistor switch is opened and the capacitor can then recharge in preparation for the next speed change . |
| 29 | The gall bladder was opened and the lumen rinsed with modified Hanks 's balanced salt solution ( HBSS , Sigma Chemical Co Ltd , St Louis , USA ) to remove bile and debris . |
| 30 | The speaker says ‘ the whole nation is quite intelligent anyway , as you can see ’ : the picture book is opened and the audience can see an ample , bare-breasted , black girl . |