Example sentences of "open [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 2 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 3 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 4 | Both moves were seen as tentative steps towards opening up the political system . |
| 5 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 6 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 7 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 8 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 9 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 10 | Others , most notably James Meade , had taken the all important step of opening up the Keynesian model so as to take account of and explain international trade and capital flows . |
| 11 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 12 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 13 | But to handle them directly , that is , to open up the central issue that arouses the pain , sensationalism or the controversy is not necessarily the best way of protecting children into emotion . |
| 14 | Additional economic corrective measures , announced on Nov. 4 , to reverse serious economic decline included ( i ) a new tariff structure to open up the protected domestic markets to cheaper imports in order to boost domestic consumer demand ; ( ii ) a promise to reform inefficient ports and customs services ; ( iii ) an anti-monopoly decree ; ( iv ) the privatization of selected state companies ; ( v ) the freeing of the exchange rate ; and ( vi ) a sweeping reform of the tax structure [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 15 | Thirdly , the Act has created a system of ‘ shorthold ’ tenancies — an attempt to open up the ailing private rented sector . |
| 16 | After several hours of interment and long and complicated ritual preparations , a series of oracular tests was performed to discover whether it was time to open up the ritual grave and recover the cured patient . |
| 17 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 18 | On Nov. 27 a meeting of Western donor countries held in Paris under World Bank auspices deferred for six months a decision on 1992 aid , stating that they expected Moi 's government to open up the political system and to end human rights abuses and high-level corruption . |
| 19 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 20 | If he falls below these ( or similar ) agreed targets we have the right to open up the EFTI market in Warsaw . |
| 21 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
| 22 | However , with their habitual thrust towards the private market , the Tory Housing Act , by incorporating provision for shorthold tenure , and permission to council tenants to sublet and take lodgers , is designed to open up the private rented sector . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |
| 25 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 26 | The struggle systematically to open up the domestic and intimate relations of the normal kin-based nuclear household is premised on the belief that what is chiefly at fault with the conventional family household is that it is excessively closed and rigid . |
| 27 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
| 28 | Far more controversial is the CHA proposal to open up the 1984 Canada Health Act . |
| 29 | The fact that this was the chosen approach of the Evil One in tempting Eve should give us a healthy respect for its subtlety and danger : ‘ Did God say … ? ’ he asked : His innocent-sounding questions about the facts of the case were designed to open up the deeper issue of God 's goodness . |
| 30 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |