Example sentences of "opened up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Victorian market towns acquired a pronounced industrial character , especially after the railways had provided cheaper raw materials and had opened up distant markets . |
| 2 | New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time . |
| 3 | The project has decimated the Amazon forest and led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians since their habitat was opened up 10 years ago . |
| 4 | The Children Act has opened up many possibilities and obligations to make the relationship between travellers and social work services more productive . |
| 5 | This has opened up new areas of employment for actuaries , frequently involving communication skills as well as technical expertise . |
| 6 | Some recent work , however , particularly in attempting to historicise the insights of Freud , and to demonstrate the specificity of his categories ( that is , showing how they refer to a particular cultural milieu ) has opened up new possibilities . |
| 7 | Such studies tend to be impressionistic and are frequently questionable , but modern linguistics , by offering more exact and subtle methods of analysis , has opened up new possibilities for the study of sound-symbolism in literature . |
| 8 | According to the Nobel Committee which sits in Stockholm , Mr Gorbachov has opened up new possibilities for the World Community to solve its pressing problems . |
| 9 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 10 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 11 | These opened up new opportunities of producing components either for export to the big car companies in America or Europe , or for sale to the local affiliates of those same companies . |
| 12 | The reunification of Germany has opened up new opportunities for many in the East , including a group of East German teachers of English who are visiting Oxford this week . |
| 13 | A recent visit to Japan , paid for by the Japanese government , has opened up major possibilities . |
| 14 | At 500 metres Britain were a third-of-a-second down on the Americans , but at halfway began to move ahead , and with 500m to go had opened up clear water . |
| 15 | Tozer travelled after the pioneer journeys of W. M. Leake [ q.v. ] in Greece and Macedonia , and W. J. Hamilton [ q.v. ] in Asia Minor had opened up these countries to archaeologists , and his main interest was not in the discovery of archaeological material but in physical and human geography . |
| 16 | A special freephone advice line was opened up last Tuesday and was swamped by hundreds of callers . |
| 17 | The developments in techniques for both sound and video recording have opened up another world of data to ethnomethodologists ( and , for that matter , to all sociologists ) . |
| 18 | Indeed , the continued dominance of Oxford , Cambridge and the top public schools severely weakens the claim that educational reform has opened up British society . |
| 19 | The good news for developing countries is that change has opened up unforeseen opportunities . |
| 20 | Over the last 150 years , the world of knowledge and understanding created through research has opened up infinite possibilities for higher education , and so research has become undeniably linked to our modern understanding of higher education . |