Example sentences of "[noun sg] open [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Hendrique 's head was tilted back , his mouth open in a silent scream .
2 The wind whisked past her ears , her stomach lurched ; she opened her eyes and saw the white , freckled child screaming , his mouth open like a great dark cave , clinging on to the side of the boat with his frail clean-scrubbed little hands .
3 Another course open to the High Court when it quashes the decision of a governmental body is to remit the matter to the agency with a direction to reconsider it in accordance with the findings of the High Court .
4 Sound recording enabled us to repeat musical and other aural experiences , with profound effects upon the musical profession as well as on the range of cultural opportunity open to the ordinary person .
5 The vagina , like the mouth , ears , or any other orifice open to the outside world is , as a matter of course , populated by many microorganisms , most of which rarely cause problems and give their host little reason to be aware of their presence .
6 Well , in release three of four you can have more than one file open at the same time .
7 Or crackle open under a blue-black pressure .
8 Unable to restrain the anger that welled up within him , Richmann swung his cut-down Winchester round and , with an animal roar , blew the man 's head open like a dropped melon .
9 Finally we sat in the hide open to the general public and looked out over the wide expanse of water at Low Ellers .
10 What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness .
11 Saturday 's last day of the season open on the middle Swale proved an anticlimax as three foot of cold water chilled the Maunby to Ainderby reaches spoiling what had promised to be a chub bonanza .
12 Gina had the first volume open at the initial entry and she read aloud : ‘ Durban , Natal , Thursday , January 1st 1852 .
13 She read at night by torchlight , her own little door open onto the sandy hillside .
14 Nonetheless some elements of the army in Bosnia are trying to keep lines of communication open to the Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic .
15 In the Bellsdyke unit , the last four years have seen a successful and busy day hospital open in a former town centre house , a community health centre ( providing continuing care as well as acute and day hospital ) , warden supervised flats , supported housing projects and addiction outreach teams established .
16 For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher .
17 On Sunday , the doors of the Old swan open at the ungodly hour of 10 a.m. , but for a new set of pint-sized customers .
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