Example sentences of "open the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if there were a willingness to reduce production , it would be hard , in the European Community , to resist the sheer momentum created by opening the frontiers of the new internal market after 1992 . |
| 2 | Soon after , he realized with a chill in his groin that something was opening the clasps of his suit . |
| 3 | Because a very large part of any president 's time is taken up in the ceremonial , in the ritual , in meeting heads of states from other countries , from opening the equivalents of garden fetes , receiving parties of boy scouts , er and whatever else the Queen and her family do these days . |
| 4 | Then he sighed again , before opening the palms of his hands in a gesture of resignation . |
| 5 | Gloucestershire 's top trainer David Nicholson was opening the doors of his Condicote yard for the very last time |
| 6 | They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ . |
| 7 | His subsequent actions in office , however little they may have done to encourage serious Catholic commitment to the Ulster state , were enough to confirm the conservative Protestant suspicion that O'Neill was another Lundy , prepared to follow the original by opening the gates of unionist Ulster 's walls to the disloyal Catholics and the Irish Republic . |
| 8 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |
| 9 | I had to see him and wave him on , ’ she sobbed , opening the contents of her purse into the collector 's tin . |
| 10 | It provided the leadership in February , it succeeded in opening the eyes of the more backward sections of the proletariat and the working masses to the reactionary nature of the petty-bourgeois and liberal parties , it welded the proletariat into an invincible revolutionary force and , drawing the poor peasants into alliance with them , it led the October revolution . |
| 11 | When Ferdinand II attempted to impose Catholicism on largely Protestant Bohemia , the citizens of Prague rebelled , thereby opening the struggles of the Thirty Years War . |
| 12 | And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again . |
| 13 | The episode had led to his expulsion from Unseen University , because , for a bet , he had dared to open the pages of the last remaining copy of the Creator 's own grimoire , the Octavo ( while the University librarian was otherwise engaged ) . |
| 14 | On one ship passengers dared to open the windows of a saloon because it was rather stuffy . |
| 15 | But this does not stop Abse constructing an elaborate thesis based on Thatcher 's ‘ sphincter morality ’ , for which her mother , Beatrice , should really take the blame : ‘ Thatcher succeeded in initiating the electorate into a new form of gambling : her personal need to end the earlier constraints which she had endured , outlawing the joys of shitting and coprophilia , drove her to open the doors of the Stock Exchange , and end its exclusivity . ’ |
| 16 | It was Sayeeda who gave me an insatiable desire to open the doors of Oman , doors which were locked to most foreigners and needed a special key . |
| 17 | Boursoufler ( to swell , puff up ) will take a double ff as in souffler , and désiller ( to open the eyes of , undeceive ) becomes déciller to show its link with cil ( eyelash ) . |
| 18 | It is part of their purpose to open the eyes of their readership to the true conditions of working-class life , and many scenes are set in impoverished interiors . |
| 19 | To open the eyes of the blind to free captives from prison and those who live in darkness from the dungeon ’ |
| 20 | If minds of the calibre of Krupskaia were so firmly closed so soon , there was little hope that her pedagogic instructions would serve to open the minds of the temnye liudi in the Smolensk or any other guberniia . |
| 21 | He 's keen to open the minds of his audience — Janacek , he says , has hardly been heard in Italy , and he 's determined to open his season with Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 22 | Test me in this , ’ says the Lord Almighty , ‘ and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it . |
| 23 | 2 Break open the arms of the attacker using the outer forearms . |
| 24 | Someone else had been here before him , tearing open the bags of perishables in search of anything worthy of rescue . |
| 25 | Both Griffon and Lappet-faced Vultures are strong , heavy-billed birds , capable of tearing open the hides of dead animals with ease . |
| 26 | When , on 24 May , in a speech before the House of Commons , Churchill acknowledged the Allies ' debt to Spain for keeping open the Straits of Gibraltar , Franco naturally interpreted this as endorsement of his regime and , therefore , another international victory . |
| 27 | ‘ Why ? ’ said Lee , pulling open the drawers of the egg cabinet . |
| 28 | The little boy had lost interest and started pulling open the drawers of the dressing-table . |
| 29 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 30 | THE DUKE of Roxburghe , owner of the largest house in Scotland , is to throw open the doors of his country seat for corporate hospitality , writes Jenny Shields , Scottish Staff . |