Example sentences of "[adv] more open to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Whether , however , their precise significance in the late fifteenth century is as described in the Kanunname — that is , whether at this early stage of the development of the medrese system they were already confined to two classes of 50-akce medreses — is perhaps more open to question , though the very real possibility that the geographical sense and the designation of rank were once conterminous should not be overlooked in this connection .
2 Whether or not he was equally aware of a similar alienation process in asserting the catholic nature of the nation is perhaps more open to debate .
3 However , the loyalty of political appointees and career civil servants in the federal administration at large is much more open to question .
4 Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible .
5 Using still images makes it much easier to initiate discussion of the organisation and use of space : the constraints of the task allow us to focus on specifics ; the stillness makes the work much more open to inspection .
6 However , when she became Lady Falkender she became much more open to criticism .
7 ( Dawson 1976 : 14 ; Hoggart 1983 ) ‘ Needs ’ other than education may be even more open to interpretation .
8 The cotton industry was relatively new compared with the older and more protected and restricted woollen trades and was therefore more open to innovation .
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