Example sentences of "[verb] open [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In tandem with the major exhibition on Rietveld 's activities as an architect and furniture designer which has opened at the Centraal Museum of Utrecht ( until 21 February ) , the City Council of Utrecht has pledged DFl.270,000 ( £84,400 ; $146,800 ) for the restoration of ten early villas by the Dutch artist , furniture designer and architect . |
| 2 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 3 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 4 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 5 | The reaction of the audience was enthusiastic , and the play continued to be a popular success after it had opened at the Lyric Theatre in London on 16 September , ( Henry Sherek had again wanted to take the play first to New York , but Eliot vetoed the idea ) . |
| 6 | Strike committees in Byelorussia decided to resume on May 22 the general strike which had gripped the republic in April [ see pp. 38129-30 ] , because a session of the republic 's Supreme Soviet which had opened on the previous day was still refusing to put on its agenda demands for a coalition government . |
| 7 | It had opened in the high street . |
| 8 | The poverty gap which the past decade 's economic orthodoxies have opened across the developed world has widened faster in Britain than in any other EC country . |