Example sentences of "it [be] open to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If every time a directive is mistaken , i.e. every time it fails to reflect reason correctly , it were open to challenge as mistaken , the advantage gained by accepting the authority as a more reliable and successful guide to right reason would disappear . |
| 2 | So many are expected to attend tomorrow 's budget meeting that it 's open to ticket holders only , among them senior teachers . |
| 3 | But money is short and it 's open to question whether they will take us on . ’ |
| 4 | The Japanese launch was a success , although it is open to question how much of the success can be attributed to innovative marketing and how much to the technical qualities of the product . |
| 5 | In this case it is open to question whether the authors of the limited number of extant documents were writing about contemporary events or were recording what they believed to have happened , based on oral tradition . |
| 6 | Pat Cash is to request a wild card entry for Wimbledon , but it is open to question whether it will be granted . |
| 7 | Moreover , if the state 's role results from a variety of subjectively perceived wants , as the structuralist perspective appears to argue , then it is open to question whether such an explanation is consistent with the basic axioms of Marxist theory which imply that social , economic and political development are the result of the largely impersonal unfolding of the objective laws of history . |
| 8 | When the question quotes a statement and asks for a discussion of it , do not be afraid to criticise the statement if you think it is open to criticism . |
| 9 | Sometimes it is open to doubt whether the language used by your employer , taken in context , amounts to a dismissal . |
| 10 | The term ‘ best interests ’ is used to justify action which is taken with respect to children , but it is open to abuse , creates confusion and draws a veil of ignorance over important issues . |
| 11 | It is thus not necessary in this case to consider whether that rule is well founded , though it seems to me that it is open to review by your Lordships ' House . |
| 12 | Theoretically , in a free democratic society , especially in an academic community , it is open to dispute and argumentation as to what constitutes a ‘ reasonable order ’ in a given situation . |
| 13 | Telephone campaigning is an expanding field and one that can be very effective , but it is open to misuse ; you can say almost anything on the telephone and campaigners have to be trained in the right technique . |
| 14 | It is open to debate whether the small round building built in front as part of the Regional Government complex detracts from the renovated old building . |
| 15 | It is open to debate whether the Hundred Years War helped to prolong the Schism within the Church , but that the Schism hardened the attitudes of the French and English nations to each other is undoubted . |
| 16 | It is open to debate whether or not all the designs traditionally ascribed to Persia are in fact Persian in origin , and there is some evidence to suggest that a number may have had earlier links with Anatolia , India or Central Asia . |
| 17 | It is open to debate whether the office should be performed by a police officer or by a prosecutorial figure . |
| 18 | But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia . |
| 19 | Moreover , it was open to question whether the Class A procedure would relieve planning administration or , in fact , overload it still further . |
| 20 | Further , and more important , it was open to doubt whether the nobility was properly trained for war . |
| 21 | But it was open to argument , and invited responses , to be returned by the end of March . |
| 22 | But contrariwise it was an essential part of corporate liberty that it was open to negotiation . |