Example sentences of "[adj] open up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 3 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 4 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 5 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 6 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 7 | It was argued that it would be undesirable to open up the possibility of private prosecution , and that the sensitivity of the area was such that it was imperative that prosecution policy be consistent . |
| 8 | It is important to believe that you have acquired most of your ways of behaving because that opens up the possibility of behaviour being malleable rather than something fixed and unchanging . |
| 9 | And we shall see , furthermore , in the chapter on structuralism how far a Saussurean or semiotic theory of language in particular opens up the scope of literary theory , because it provides a means of theorising non-literary reality as well as literature itself . |