Example sentences of "open [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 2 | The narrow fissure stretched some twenty-five feet into the cliff before opening up into the tiny cave . |
| 3 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 4 | Ocean barriers opening up during the early phases of mammalian evolution had protected the marsupials in Australia and the lemurs and other unique animals of Madagascar . |
| 5 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 6 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 7 | The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house . |
| 8 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 9 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 10 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 11 | DANNY MEDDINGS continued his run of form with a surprisingly easy victory over Welsh No 1 , Adrian Davies , in last night 's opening round of the Daily Express British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 12 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 13 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 14 | He wandered towards the doors that opened on to the wet street , and stared out at the people hurrying along the pavements , feet splashing in puddles , sodden raincoats , barging umbrellas , gleaming cycle capes . |
| 15 | This was on the first-floor landing , and opened on to the shared first-floor kitchen . |
| 16 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 17 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 18 | For lack of alternative parties or serious candidates with known individual characters to vote for , a gulf opened up between the isolated villagers on the one hand and the Roslavl' or Smolensk Party men on the other , intent on modelling themselves strictly on Smolensk or Moscow prototypes and on Moscow 's instructions . |
| 19 | The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s . |
| 20 | Similar discrepancies opened up in the agricultural sphere . |
| 21 | In plots and themes they form a bridge from The Lost Prince to the more obviously juvenile world of adventure which Arthur Ransome and others opened up in the 1930s . |
| 22 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 23 | He was one of those who saw the possibilities opened up by the cheaper paper , and the coming of machine-made cases instead of hand bookbindings , of about 1830 . |
| 24 | When I do say , open up on the one Warlord I designate . |
| 25 | Almost by reflex , McIlvanney and I take a corner table , and open up on the safe territory of swapping recriminations about our country 's lack of respect for the trade . |
| 26 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 27 | ‘ Come on , my sweet morsels , open up for the nice sheep . ’ |
| 28 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 29 | Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television . |
| 30 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |