Example sentences of "[adv prt] in open " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked him up and down in open disgust . |
| 2 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 3 | Sometimes a doe will extend a dead end within a burrow and construct her breeding chamber ; more usually she makes a small hole either out in open terrain or sometimes in a hedgerow . |
| 4 | But , when out in open ground , as Duncan was , the occupant had to lie absolutely still so as to avoid being seen . |
| 5 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 6 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 7 | The beginner would be well advised to copy them out in open score with the necessary transpositions . |
| 8 | The five octaves , from top to bottom , we will call a , b , c , d , e , and the scoring suggested ( which the student should copy out in open score for greater clearness ) is as follows : |
| 9 | In voting overwhelmingly on Nov. 14 for the debate , the Supreme Soviet had come out in open revolt against its legislation being either ignored or countermanded because of administrative chaos and the so-called " war of laws " with the republics . |
| 10 | Chemical reactions are commonly carried out in open vessels such as beakers and test-tubes . |
| 11 | Judges in contempt cases can be judges in their own cause ; it is doubtful whether juries would have convicted Granada television for refusing to name its " mole " within British Steel , or solicitor Harriet Harman for giving a journalist access to documents read out in open court , or " The Independent " for publishing excerpts from " Spycatcher " at a time when the Government was trying to stop the British public from reading a book on open sale in other countries . |
| 12 | This was a welcome change from the approach of the House of Lords majority in Home Office v Harman , decided a few years earlier , which held that a solicitor committed contempt by showing the other side 's private documents to a journalist after they had been read out in open court . |
| 13 | Within a fortnight he was back in open conflict with his father . |