Example sentences of "open [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quorum maintains that it relied solely on Motif or Open Look for the pull-down menus and uses Adobe Display Postscript or SunSoft Inc News for screen rendering and therefore could hardly have infringed Apple 's patent or copyrights . |
| 2 | Graphics-based applications are developed using the company 's C-Scape screen handler , which includes application programming interfaces for running Windows 3 , Motif or Open Look at the front-end . |
| 3 | ISVs will get complete NetWare , SVR4.2 and Motif application programming interfaces with access to Open Look via the Moolit toolkit along with Posix , XPG/3 and FIPS 151 compliance needed for federal contracts . |
| 4 | More open exposure of the cleared soil results in greater effects from heavy rain : much rain will run off open surfaces downslope , carrying soil with it , especially where the root structure can not prevent this . |
| 5 | You should , if possible , have a cold tap and open drain outside the back door to facilitate removal of the worst of the mud from boots and leggings . |
| 6 | One aspect after another yields to the open sesame of the envy theory . |
| 7 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
| 8 | The flour was in an open sack on the floor . |
| 9 | She already knew from the sour expressions of the French wives among the gathering and the open admiration in the eyes of their sallow , perspiring spouses that she had achieved an outstanding success with her greatest extravagance , a simple couture gown of lilac organza . |
| 10 | SUNDERLAND-BASED Dawn Milligan had her first open winner of the year when home-bred Woodhill Echo bounced back to form to win a high-class £1,000 open at Nottingham . |
| 11 | Derek Owen likes trees , and his overall scheme is to make landscapes of wooded slopes with open pasture on the higher ground . |
| 12 | An inquest jury has returned an open verdict on the death of a baby girl killed at a playgroup . |
| 13 | On the open deck in the stern , between life-jackets and coiled mooring ropes , prayer mats were laid out and men came and went throughout the day to pray towards the eastern shore . |
| 14 | This time it is the author and her husband paddling an open canoe down the river for four months in 1984 . |
| 15 | The regulation also provides that any member who is buyer under an open contract for the current delivery month must accept LCH 's tender and documents if they comply with the contract terms . |
| 16 | Kirov stepped into the street and began crossing towards the open park on the opposite side . |
| 17 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 18 | He called to her when she was half-way up the open stairway to the bedroom she had shared with Francis ; Francis 's bedroom . |
| 19 | My open support of the Irish struggle , reading pro-Sinn Fein poems at school assembly when it was my turn to choose a reading two weeks after the Birmingham pub bombing caused more than a little outrage and several stern pep talks , culminating in threatened expulsion from the headmistress . |
| 20 | His line received the open support of the CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin in February along with prominent coverage in the official media organs . |
| 21 | These educational institutions suffer from very poor standards and give tacit or open support to the oligarchy . |
| 22 | To solve this problem , I now use the same type of staples , but reverse the nail so that the plastic strip is nailed to the skirting upside down , that is , with the open part of the clip facing upward . |
| 23 | When the Americans were pressed to share knowledge of nuclear power with the Russians , they proposed the Baruch plan ( so named after its originator ) , which called for a system of open inspection among the powers that joined in the plan , and was unacceptable to the Soviet government . |
| 24 | All I can say is when you read that document carefully it 's an open cheque for the C E C. They can go and come back next year and give you a date for a merger . |
| 25 | I mean academically I 'm studying with the Open University at the moment on a a maths course . |
| 26 | Because of its foundation-plus-option course structure , it is difficult to place the Open University in the diagram , but it may tend towards the academic and general at least at the undergraduate level . |
| 27 | The large number of astronomy books published may be varied in their presentation , topics , standards of difficulty and reader orientation , but they have one thing in common : the author 's open enthusiasm for the subject and desire to put it across . |
| 28 | Carew glanced at the open ledger on the table . |
| 29 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 30 | It 's a far cry from Lille , World Cup excitement , the All Blacks and a crowd of well over 30,000 to an open field on the University of Victoria campus where BRITISH COLUMBIA opened its defence of the Canadian Senior Provincial Championship , on November 9 and 10 . |