Example sentences of "open up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Information technology is playing , and will increasingly continue to play , a major role in opening up the curriculum to people with disabilities .
2 You could be opening up the way to new prosperity .
3 By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain .
4 To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided .
5 In opening up the debate to the floor , Inez stressed hopes for democratic discussion , respect for differing and varying views .
6 It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before .
7 Measures aimed at opening up the economy to foreign investment and the privatization of state companies continued apace throughout November .
8 The work is being carried out on behalf of English heritage , which is planning to open up the Friary to the public once renovation work has been completed .
9 Our conference , which Delamothe said was attended by ‘ political activists and pensioners , ’ was intended to open up the debate to the public and to inform people using the service .
10 Government plans ( i ) to privatize state companies ( beginning with the projected sale of the state airline , Viasa , and the state telephone company , CANTV ) ; ( ii ) to cut subsides to the state sector ; and ( iii ) to open up the economy to foreign investment by a sharp reduction in tariffs , were also deeply unpopular and strongly opposed by trade unions .
11 It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated .
12 He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets .
13 And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in .
14 Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation .
15 The Marshal had made a point of checking on that because although the Florentines spent a small fortune on electronic locks , bars , security doors and burglar alarms they quite open pressed the switches and opened up the lot to anybody with the wit to ring the bell and call ‘ Telegramtne ! ’
16 Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations .
17 It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [ see pp. 37528 ; 38002 ] .
18 * The Carajas mining project in the Amazon rainforest , which , with its associated rail links , opened up the region to invasion from poor farmers and gold prospectors , resulting in forest destruction on a massive scale and the persecution of local Indian communities .
19 In turn these open up the field to considerable latitude of local interpretation .
20 These roads open up the rainforest to waves of settlers who move into the forests and clear even more land by fire .
21 His brother Donald had already opened up the route to South Africa with his famous Castle Line and occasionally vessels were transferred to supplement the respective fleets .
22 This creates charitable understanding and opens up the way to conversion through ‘ a constant appeal to the head and the heart . ’
23 A BRIDGE could open up the route to sales success in France for a new product marketed by the protective coatings division of Celomer .
24 I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason .
25 They had pointed out that a road in this area would open up the rainforest to clearance by settlers , with the consequent loss of habitat for gorillas , elephants and other threatened animal species , and the disruption of the livelihoods of traditional tribal peoples in the area .
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