Example sentences of "it open up " in BNC.

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1 She would not allow it to open up and expose her directly to the moon , and to the distant but approaching dragon .
2 The mainland economy has only recently opened up with the growth of tourism : nor has it opened up to women and men ( or indeed Black and white workers ) in an exactly similar way .
3 The development was the ‘ most exciting discovery of the last decade ’ because it opened up new treatment avenues .
4 I lost a lot of pictures , but it opened up the night-time for me and I felt that the mood came out .
5 It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with .
6 It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles .
7 Although the case collapsed and Docherty admitted telling ‘ a pack of lies ’ in court , it opened up damaging wounds within Manchester United , and created a climate of fear and loathing among leading players that stretches to the present day .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It opened up orchestrational possibilities for a small group that did n't exist before .
11 When the hatches were shut you could n't see where they were , but whenever the Thing was really interested in something it opened up and extended a small silver dish on a pole , or a complicated arrangement of pipes .
12 How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation .
13 In 1985 , it opened up to the market , competing largely for the architecture and installation of PABX voice networks .
14 Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services .
15 They all thought that the value of studying the course lay in the career opportunities it opened up — what Gibbs et al.
16 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 .
17 And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now !
18 Coming so soon after the fiasco of Barricades Week , it opened up the prospect of new opportunities in foreign policy and reinforced a determination on de Gaulle 's part to liquidate the Algerian problem as soon as possible , even at the expense of major concessions to the FLN and its government-in-exile , the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic or GPRA .
19 He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world .
20 Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there
21 So we went and had and there was a little space , you know normal bit bigger than average and a little hooked thing and it opened up and down came some steps and we went up with trepidation I must say .
22 This test factor is said to interpret the relationship between the two variables ; it opens up the black box to show how the effect occurs .
23 Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting .
24 It opens up into a fantastic cavern , which glistens and sparkles as though lit by an invisible Light .
25 The challenge , as in Sade , is in the abyss of unreason it opens up ; it could as well be , and easily becomes , ‘ I do this because it hurts me ’ .
26 It opens up a wealth of exciting new opportunities .
27 Its value lies in the way it opens up the issue for reasoned discussion .
28 It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating .
29 She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms .
30 It lies below and beyond the distinctions between subject and object which are inbuilt in ordinary experience at the level of knowledge and action ; so it opens up a direct awareness of the God on whom our existence hangs as given in and with our deepest awareness of ourselves .
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