Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] the open " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 2 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The boat moved restlessly beneath them , as if impatient to be out on the open sea . |
| 5 | Relieved to be out in the open again , I looked for the route up onto the giant hump of Rhossili Down above the village . |
| 6 | He wanted to be out in the open street working , so as to catch things ‘ in motion ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | She wanted to be out in the open air , but excluded farming and gardening because of the evils of chemical fertilizers , pesticides , and hybrid animals/plants which deviated from nature 's intentions . |
| 9 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If things were out in the open — and St Mirren did offer to meet any condition if I would stay — then I could make an honest decision about my future . |
| 12 | Well , we 've clearly seen that this is out in the open now and people are going to have to deal with it . |
| 13 | It should be a lot easier now that everything 's out in the open and it should help you to come to terms with things , as well as Len . ’ |
| 14 | Beautiful , you do n't see Yew 's out in the open much do you ? |
| 15 | The third race , for the Campkin Cup , was back on the open sea in light conditions . |
| 16 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was out in the open now , her thoughts of that last hour as she had kept her lonely vigil . |
| 19 | Everything was out in the open — political resistance , management failings and just sheer inertia . |
| 20 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 21 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
| 22 | Everything was out in the open now and the dream she had had for so long was about to turn into reality . |