Example sentences of "[vb past] the door to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 2 | In contrast , the 1980 Transport Act opened the door to competition by easing the procedures needed to obtain a road service licence . |
| 3 | A man and woman were walking ahead of him , so he slowed his pace until the woman opened the door to room 214 and went in without bothering to look at her partner . |
| 4 | The very deliberate rejection of ‘ is ’ and its replacement by ‘ subsists in ’ opened the door to acceptance of the , at least , partial ecclesial status of other Christians and other ecclesiastical bodies . |
| 5 | The second reason is that the ending of the war , like the starting of it , will require the intermediation of the UN ; and the Europeans , who progressively voted for all the Security Council resolutions which opened the door to war , will naturally seek another series of resolutions to close it again . |
| 6 | When Menzies opened the door to radio communication , he could have had little appreciation of one aspect of its future impact . |
| 7 | It was the refusal of the Bolsheviks to countenance this , their insistence upon hierarchical control , in agriculture and industry alike , which opened the door to bureaucratization and the degeneration of the entire Soviet experiment . |