Example sentences of "opened up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 2 | On the landing the first door on the left opened up a walk-in cupboard . |
| 3 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 4 | Physics , I was often told , was a ‘ general degree ’ , one which opened up a range of possibilities ; it was also , many students said , ‘ one of the best degrees you can get ’ . |
| 5 | Pauline and John knocked down an adjoining wall and opened up a staircase to create a large , bright room |
| 6 | Louis 's prompt remarriage , in 819 , to Judith , daughter of Count Welf , opened up a Pandora 's box of possibilities . |
| 7 | The tax burden imposed on workers to pay for welfare services opened up a gap between the cost of labour to the employer ( the wage gross of employers ' and employees ' social security contributions and of income tax ) and what the worker received ( the wage net of all these deductions ) . |
| 8 | They opened up a market of huge potential for English manufacturers in the New World . |
| 9 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 10 | The question of ratification of treaties with Western nations opened up a gulf between the Bakufu and an imperial court whose nominal supremacy Tokugawa enemies were beginning to realize could be fruitfully exploited to the regime 's disadvantage . |
| 11 | The König Wilhelm Canal ( 1869–73 ) opened up a connection between the Kurisches Haff and Memel . |
| 12 | I have nothing against yesterday 's guitar heroes , indeed it was the Iommi article that caused me to buy your magazine again , but whoever it was in your office who opened up a copy of NME and stuck a pin in it should be encouraged to do so again . |
| 13 | It was a point which opened up a line of argument opposing the ‘ true ’ national interest of abolition to the false claims of the traders of national necessity for what they were doing . |
| 14 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 15 | Cumbria 's Dave Swanson opened up a lead over Paul Dugdale after 5K , and stretched it into a 16-second victory . |
| 16 | They opened up a lead of more than two minutes by Huddersfield , but were caught with just under 30 miles left . |
| 17 | This work explores questions of racism , ethnicity , nationality and sexual difference in ways which have problematized conventional assumptions and opened up a debate about the diversity and complexity of black British identities and voices . |
| 18 | At the request of the inhabitants , he also opened up a well from which they draw water to this day , and his name is still commemorated in the village . |
| 19 | Nearly half of the episcopal hierarchy refused the new oaths , and as a result opened up a schism in the Anglican Church . |
| 20 | The hammer carved through his eyebrow and opened up a cut as deep as the frontal bone it cracked . |
| 21 | County freeholders and burgh magistrates alike found Indian patronage attractive , for an Indian appointment opened up a career to a poor gentleman as none of the alternatives then available could do . |
| 22 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 23 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 24 | SEVERAL old and tried tunes opened up the year . |
| 25 | ‘ My grandfather moved to Billingford and he settled in and opened up the blacksmith shop … |
| 26 | Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too . |
| 27 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 28 | According to this argument , the Soviet weapons opened up the possibility that , through want of any alternative means of preventing the Red Army from overrunning Europe , the US might be forced to initiate a full-scale nuclear exchange with the USSR . |
| 29 | In 1771 the completion of the Bromberg Canal had linked the Vistula with the Oder and Berlin ; the Dniepr-Bug Canal and the Dniepr-Niemen Canal ( 1775–84 ) opened up the possibility of river trade as far south as Kiew and the Black Sea . |
| 30 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |