Example sentences of "open a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tandy Corp , Fort Worth , Texas , has resumed its monthly pulse-taking of its business , and reports that sales in April from stores that were open a year ago rose 2% to $256.4m compared with April last year ; total sales rose 12% to $256.4m ; stores that have been closed as part of the company 's comprehensive restructuring are not included in the figures , Tandy , now a pure electronic retailer , said . |
| 2 | Euro Disney , whose Euro Disneyland near Paris has now been open a year , said it lost FFr1.1 billion ( $100m ) in the six months to end-March , and now needs more money to restructure FFr21 billion of debt . |
| 3 | Eventually Rosie , the youngest of the nursery maids , pushed the door open a fraction , a handkerchief to her face . |
| 4 | He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction — and looked straight into Jane 's wide eyes . |
| 5 | Leave the door open a minute Christine it 's a bit warm in here . |
| 6 | In those circumstances it does not seem to me right to leave open , whether the court has power to do so I 'm doubtful , but in any event it does not seem to me right to leave open a question of whether there should be some damages to provide for the possibility that er Paul may have to leave school , nor do I think that it is a situation in which any contingency award should be made in respect of that . |
| 7 | She told me how much food to give him every day , and to be sure to leave the window open a bit so he could get into the garden and do his business . |
| 8 | If we prop it open a bit we should pick up their voices on the tape . ’ |
| 9 | He tried to scan his surroundings but the interior was too gloomy so he kicked the door open a bit further , flooding the freight car with light . |
| 10 | Erm so I mean I think , you know , it might be useful , well , in some ways it would be very useful for you to have erm two sort of six month stints in rather different environments so that then you 'd sort of keep your options open a bit . |
| 11 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 12 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 13 | ‘ Oh shit , ’ she said , surreptitiously pushing the access hatch open a crack and thrusting her fingers through , hoping nobody would notice . |
| 14 | Leonora hurried upstairs gleefully , inserted a new set of batteries in the transistor , turned up the volume and left her bedroom door open a crack . |
| 15 | These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved . |
| 16 | BY NOW a small museum will have been open a couple of months , located on the edge of the airport at Port Elizabeth on the eastern side of the Republic of South African Air Force Museum ( of which more in the December FlyPast ) , acting as a regional ‘ draw ’ for aviation enthusiasts of all ilks in a land that is very air-minded . |
| 17 | The side window was open a couple of inches , and Lucy closed it . |
| 18 | The Glass Pig has only been open a couple of weeks , but it 's already busy and helping to break down barriers . |
| 19 | If you can not get hold of dental dams , you can cut open a condom instead ( use the non-lubricated or flavoured varieties ) ! |
| 20 | Its Nine Elms terminal had only been open a week when in 1838 the London and South-Western announced the running of eight special trains on Derby Day to Kingston , the nearest station to Epsom . |
| 21 | The advice was to prove valuable because , coupled with an observation of his own — that he was standing too open — he won the European Masters-Swiss Open a week later . |
| 22 | The Captain also knew that mining the shallows was an unlikely precaution and technically difficult , thus leaving open a side entrance to the port . |
| 23 | Even if these descriptions are valid they still leave open a number of questions , particularly why the same mechanisms do not operate with girls . |
| 24 | They assume that there is a trade-off between labour-augmenting and capital-augmenting technical progress , and that firms maximize the instantaneous rate of unit cost reduction ( i.e. firms are myopic , or are able to appropriate returns for only one instant ) This ‘ innovation possibility frontier ’ captures the notion of choice but leaves open a number of questions , notably the determination of its shape and location , which must in part result from the deliberate allocation of resources to research and development . |
| 25 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 26 | Aubrey Boomer 's tournament career was also confined to the Continent , where he was extremely successful , winning the French Open a record five times between 1921 and 1931 , the Belgian Open twice , the Dutch Open twice and the Italian Open once . |
| 27 | Very roughly , my wanting the window open a moment ago is to be understood not only in terms of the stuffiness of the room ( the stimulus ) , and my subsequently opening the window ( behaviour ) , but also in terms of various beliefs , attitudes , and the like , including certain ordinary causal beliefs about open windows and perhaps attitudes having to do with propriety and the neighbours . |