Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] the open [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 2 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 3 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 4 | The boat moved restlessly beneath them , as if impatient to be out on the open sea . |
| 5 | She wanted to be out in the open air , but excluded farming and gardening because of the evils of chemical fertilizers , pesticides , and hybrid animals/plants which deviated from nature 's intentions . |
| 6 | He wanted to be out in the open street working , so as to catch things ‘ in motion ’ . |
| 7 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 8 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 9 | The third race , for the Campkin Cup , was back on the open sea in light conditions . |
| 10 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |
| 11 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |