Example sentences of "opened up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happy Mondays , The Stone Roses and The Beloved opened up a truly wonderful world , available to everyone . |
| 2 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 3 | Jan-Ove Waldner , generally accepted as the world 's most talented player , opened up a 2–1 lead for Sweden , scorning Matthew Syed 's backspin to win 21–14 , 21–10 in 17 minutes . |
| 4 | One of the most important steps for the complete colonization of the land was the evolution of herbivorous ( plant-eating ) reptiles , tapping a prolific and nourishing source of food that opened up a new dimension to the ‘ food chain' . |
| 5 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 6 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 7 | This opened up a four-shot lead but at the 5th Greg hit a bad second shot and chipped up , missed the putt and dropped back to three ahead . |
| 8 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 9 | Mercer 's bid to control Hibernian opened up a deep wound in the capital and brought unwanted attention to the embattled Hibs board . |
| 10 | The König Wilhelm Canal ( 1869–73 ) opened up a connection between the Kurisches Haff and Memel . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cumbria 's Dave Swanson opened up a lead over Paul Dugdale after 5K , and stretched it into a 16-second victory . |
| 13 | But within three minutes of the re-start , Sergei Babkov 's two giant three-pointers had punctured English morale as Russia went into overdrive and opened up a 49–40 advantage . |
| 14 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 15 | Mannheim had set out a project for the sociology of knowledge that opened up a potentially stimulating area of sociological inquiry . |
| 16 | Norwich 's victory opened up a four- point lead at the top of the table with their fifth win on the trot . |
| 17 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 18 | In the end Purvis and his records opened up a new world for me , starting on that very first dinner when we played Beethoven 's Archduke Trio , the one in B flat major , ‘ Opus 97 , ’ he added casually . |
| 19 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 20 | She leaned and opened up a flat box . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Whereas The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower had allowed Minton to rework , in lighter and more decorative form , imagery coined in his landscape drawings of the mid-1940s , Time Was Away opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |