Example sentences of "open [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 2 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 3 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 4 | Turning to propaganda , the government attempted to open up the constitutional issues and the Home Secretary , Sir William Joynson-Hicks put the matter starkly , if exaggeratedly , when he commented , at a meeting on 2 August 1925 at Northampton that : |
| 5 | With the change in wording necessitated by the inclusion of ‘ disorderly , ’ this is in virtually identical terms to the provision in relation to section 4 , and would therefore seem to open up the same possibilities for argument that that section does through section 6(3) . |
| 6 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 7 | And it 's five , six , seven , open up the pearly gates . |
| 8 | It is the wealth creators , he said , who open up the great possibilities for improvement in our society . |
| 9 | from the first of 1 january 1994 a treaty between the EC and EFTA open up the previous regulations for work permits between the countries of the EC ( or maybe EEC ? — eg Great Britain , Spain , Germany + 10 and EFTA ( Norway , Sweden , Switzerland + a couple of others ) . |
| 10 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 11 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 12 | The stories of the Last Days , when the Summoner would open up the Dark Reaches of the Spirit Lands and call down the worst of the manitous to lay waste the worlds of the white man and the red . |