Example sentences of "opened up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 2 | Historically , though , it was mountaineers from Britain who opened up the central part of the range in the heyday of Victorian adventure . |
| 3 | Navratilova had watched in awe as Evert opened up the rain-delayed Federation Cup semi-final between the United States and Czechoslovakia to set her team on the way to a 2-0 victory . |
| 4 | England always looked dangerous and extended their lead in the 53rd minute when Merson opened up the Polish defence for Bull to slot in the third goal . |
| 5 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 6 | Then , when the show was over and it was time for everyone to wake up and go home , they opened up the roof — the whole thing rolls back to one side . |
| 7 | This not only gave good grounds for peace and stability in Europe , but also opened up the prospect for bigger cuts in military spending . |
| 8 | At a recent meeting of the party 's Central Committee , President Gorbachev opened up the prospect of a future coalition government when he talked of ‘ equal possibilities for the Communist party and other political and social organisations . ’ |
| 9 | It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Maggie opened up the cupboard and took out h ; r piece and the thermos flask she now brought to work with her . |
| 12 | I lost a lot of pictures , but it opened up the night-time for me and I felt that the mood came out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Alton 's fourth try came from Taff Evans after a series of swift handling moves completely opened up the RAF defence . |
| 15 | The development of Amazonia began in 1960 after the completion of the Belém-Brasilia highway that opened up the eastern part , and in the mid-1960s the government adopted numerous policies that , via tax incentives , were designed to encourage private sector development ( Browder 1988 ) . |
| 16 | A deal signed with the American biotechnology firm , Genentech , for the mass-production of the protein opened up the prospect of supplying a massive world market for haemophiliacs . |
| 17 | SEVERAL old and tried tunes opened up the year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 23 | Generally , however , is a qualification : knowing Southerners have been beating a path there since the railways opened up the region . |
| 24 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 25 | ‘ Systematization ’ opened up the prospect of complete subordination to the State , the Party or , to be precise , to Ceauşescu . |
| 26 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 27 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 28 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 29 | His drive towards restructuring higher education along egalitarian lines opened up the colleges to those from less privileged ‘ proletarian ’ backgrounds and those who showed the correct political disposition . |
| 30 | Next we opened up the loading door . |