Example sentences of "out in the open " in BNC.

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1 All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air .
2 Q I live out in the open country and my adorable springer , Sally , is forever picking up ticks .
3 Several grass-roots supporters want their concern about interest rates and higher mortgages to be brought out in the open tomorrow when Mr Lawson replies to the debate on the economy .
4 The German mortaring had suddenly stopped and the Brigade Major was standing out in the open talking to an Officer when , just as suddenly , the mortars started up again , sending their bombs swishing through the trees and sending the Brigade Major diving for cover .
5 No eye pitied thee , to do any of these things unto thee ; but thou wast cast out in the open field in the loathesomeness of thy person …
6 ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me .
7 Relieved to be out in the open again , I looked for the route up onto the giant hump of Rhossili Down above the village .
8 So long as agriculture is an enterprise carried out in the open air , crops ( and therefore working capital ) will always be at risk .
9 Generally the passengers camped and sat out in the open air .
10 Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century .
11 But it must be equally obvious that during spells of prolonged rain the rabbits are much more likely to stay underground in the warmth and security of their burrow systems rather than braving it out in the open and being constantly soaked .
12 The few that remained squatted out in the open or tucked themselves into tiny holes , often with their hindquarters clearly visible .
13 It was out in the open now , her thoughts of that last hour as she had kept her lonely vigil .
14 Getting out in the open air on a bike can be an exhilarating experience .
15 Are we to assume then that he had now switched over from being an evangelist and was a deliberate artist in the making , out in the open for all to see ?
16 He wanted to be out in the open street working , so as to catch things ‘ in motion ’ .
17 His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days .
18 Finally , though all drivers are at heart egotists and publicity-seekers ( it is part of the game ) , James always played his life right out in the open : sex life , life style and all .
19 Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ .
20 It is a shock to have the battle of Helm 's Deep decided by the Ents and Huorns , who were last seen marching on Isengard , but whose powers have never come out in the open before .
21 D'Arquebus evaded Yeremi 's grasp and raced aslant of the line of fire , right out in the open , seemingly intent on matching the speed of the skaters .
22 Out in the open the bird can fly enormous distances , so even if you spotted one , the chances are it would have flown miles away before you could get your camera ready to shoot .
23 Everything was out in the open — political resistance , management failings and just sheer inertia .
24 Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives .
25 Bringing these out in the open and subjecting them to scrutiny and analysis will yield fruitful results .
26 Get the anger and pain out in the open and cry over it .
27 It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished .
28 The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion .
29 Relieved to have the matter out in the open , Julia took a sip of wine to ease her throat and tried to explain her wayward , difficult , fascinating , beloved sister-in-law to him .
30 What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over .
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