Example sentences of "open [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rock Around The Clock are showing some recession-defying ability by opening up a new store in Crouch End , London . |
| 2 | A mass of mail when I got back here — replies saying NO for example for the part time post of editor of the Episcopal Church paper up here and a NO from a firm opening up a new range of discount grocery stores . |
| 3 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 4 | These nine examples drawn from a vast literature illustrate many of the key issues of innovation : the importance of observant people , the value of experience , the linking of different technologies to turn failure into success , the need for perseverance , the contribution of group problem solving techniques , the potential for opening up a wide range of opportunities and for changing , even destroying , existing organizational and market structures . |
| 5 | What needs to be considered when opening up a blocked off flue ? |
| 6 | Britain 's Paul Curran escaped as the race entered Liverpool but after opening up a 10-second gap , he was caught by Illingworth , Australia 's Patrick Jonker and Denmark 's Kim Marcussen as they entered the circuit with 11 miles to go . |
| 7 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 8 | ‘ But we have got to spend considerably more effort on opening up a two-way dialogue . |
| 9 | It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys . |
| 10 | The resulting product will enable HP 3000 users to run Progess-based applications unchanged on top of the AllBase/SQL relational database system , opening up a claimed base of thousands of applications from Progress Software 's 2,000-plus Software Partners . |
| 11 | Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future . |
| 12 | Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki . |
| 13 | Is he just opening up a bad |
| 14 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
| 15 | Most people go just that little bit too far , opening up a blessed margin of excess along which our wounded egos can scuttle to safety . |
| 16 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
| 17 | It was this — the politics of culture — that implicitly governed the Channel 4 debate , opening up a whole spectrum of discussion widely at variance with the concerns dominating White ( Western European and American ) feminist film theory . |
| 18 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 19 | You may find yourself opening up a whole new world of exciting foreign contacts which could , eventually , lead to some charming holidays . |
| 20 | You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl . |
| 21 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |
| 22 | In 1985 a similar change enabled societies to pay interest gross on Eurobond issues , opening up a further source of wholesale funding and reflected in the sharp rise in the ‘ other ’ liabilities column in our table . |
| 23 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 24 | McClure was in his usual brilliant form opening up a 7-1 lead after five ends and then extending that to 14-3 at the halfway stage . |
| 25 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 26 | For the third time this season Cheadle were put on the rack but they mustered their strength in the final quarter to open up a 14–10 lead . |
| 27 | He made the putt to open up a five-shot lead . |
| 28 | To write the words ‘ the family in industrial society ’ is to make a lot of assumptions and to open up a complex range of questions . |
| 29 | After the failure of Hawkins 's attempt to open up a regular slave trade with South America , the English had paid only infrequent visits to the west coast of Africa , though a company to trade with ‘ Ginny and Binny ’ ( Guinea and Benin ) had been launched in 1618 . |
| 30 | For Rangers the chance to open up a four point gap on Celtic before the end of October . |