Example sentences of "[noun] had open up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ivory reached the west partly from Egypt but also , after the Arab conquerors of North Africa had opened up the trans-Saharan route from Tunisia by way of Chad to the Niger , directly from equatorial Africa .
2 But the preacherman had opened up a crack , and got into her greymass .
3 Mr Morrison said the independence movement had opened up the possibility of former Eastern bloc countries becoming big players in the drug trade : ‘ Poland , for example , is now a major manufacturer of amphetamine . ’
4 The forces of federation and supranationalism were in disarray , and at the time it seemed natural to conclude that the whole momentum of European integration was lurching to a halt , in particular because the EDC debacle had opened up a rift between France and West Germany .
5 Discovery of the micro-organic causes of disease and the mode of their transmission had opened up a domain which ‘ to the minds of our immediate ancestors seemed almost outside of the knowable ’ .
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