Example sentences of "[vb pp] open up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with their habitual thrust towards the private market , the Tory Housing Act , by incorporating provision for shorthold tenure , and permission to council tenants to sublet and take lodgers , is designed to open up the private rented sector . |
| 2 | The fact that this was the chosen approach of the Evil One in tempting Eve should give us a healthy respect for its subtlety and danger : ‘ Did God say … ? ’ he asked : His innocent-sounding questions about the facts of the case were designed to open up the deeper issue of God 's goodness . |
| 3 | There seemed to be a veritable army of helpers needed to open up the big downstairs rooms , and wherever she went there seemed yet another one poised to ask her a question she was unable to answer . |
| 4 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 5 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |