Example sentences of "[verb] open up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that this was the chosen approach of the Evil One in tempting Eve should give us a healthy respect for its subtlety and danger : ‘ Did God say … ? ’ he asked : His innocent-sounding questions about the facts of the case were designed to open up the deeper issue of God 's goodness . |
| 2 | There seemed to be a veritable army of helpers needed to open up the big downstairs rooms , and wherever she went there seemed yet another one poised to ask her a question she was unable to answer . |
| 3 | The Rome Treaty aims to open up the Common Market to competition in respect of services as well as goods . |
| 4 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 5 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 6 | With the change in wording necessitated by the inclusion of ‘ disorderly , ’ this is in virtually identical terms to the provision in relation to section 4 , and would therefore seem to open up the same possibilities for argument that that section does through section 6(3) . |
| 7 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 8 | Turning to propaganda , the government attempted to open up the constitutional issues and the Home Secretary , Sir William Joynson-Hicks put the matter starkly , if exaggeratedly , when he commented , at a meeting on 2 August 1925 at Northampton that : |