Example sentences of "opens [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another possibility , in say , a flat or an apartment where the living room door opens off the hall , is to cut two narrow floor-to-ceiling slits in the wall to give both extra light and interesting glimpses of the room ahead . |
| 2 | The comfortable lounge opens into the open plan bar area which overlooks the beach and sea , ideal for early evening drinks . |
| 3 | At the furthermost end of it , a door opens into the Upper Paddock . |
| 4 | Only the most distinguished visitors were admitted : ‘ The third gate opens into the Thousand Pillars , ’ noted Battuta . |
| 5 | Chapter Five opens with the information : ‘ Ursula and Kenelm had known my parents for some time , having been introduced originally by a mutual friend . |
| 6 | The Rock opens with the seasonal fertility cycle which had horrified the trapped Eliot of the earlier poetry and the dramatic fragments . |
| 7 | A Grave With No Name opens with the funeral of a prematurely aged woman whose only mourners are a goat and a young former patient of the doctor narrator . |
| 8 | Side two opens with the singles , ‘ Big Mouth Strikes Again ’ and ‘ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side ’ . |
| 9 | The novel opens with the child 's terrifying encounter with Magwitch , an escaped convict , in a lonely country churchyard , and his being forced to steal from his home food and a file for the man whose recapture he subsequently witnesses . |
| 10 | The series opens with the tournament at Petersfield from May 1st to 10th . |
| 11 | The disc opens with the flavour of Carmen ( Souvenirs d'Andalousie ) , continues with lively bravura/programmatic fun ( Le banjo ) , then charm ( Grand Scherzo ) , humour ( Pasquinade Caprice ) , breathtaking beauty ( Berceuse ) , and memorable rhythmic tautness ( Tournament Galop ) . |
| 12 | Jack de Bie 's recital opens with the Fantasia No. 1 of Jan van Boom ( 1807–72 ) , basically a set of rather salon-ish variations on a theme ( the song Nara ) by the Swedish composer Adolf Lindblad — and it is the them , simple , but very lovely , which guarantees the attractiveness of the piece . |
| 13 | An account of the establishment of Henry I 's household written just after his death opens with the writing office and chapel , still a single department , which organized the king 's writs and the king 's prayers . |
| 14 | Our period opens with the imperial coronation of 962 ; shortly after its close , in 1165 , Frederick Barbarossa had Charlemagne canonized by his anti-pope Paschal III . |
| 15 | It usually opens with the chorus |
| 16 | The Microelectronics Revolution , an edited collection of papers providing one of the earliest and most comprehensive overviews of the impact of new technology , opens with the editor , Tom Forester , quoting Sir Ieuan Maddock 's description of microelectronics as ‘ The most remarkable technology ever to confront mankind ’ ( Forester 1980 , xiii ) . |
| 17 | That poem opens with the funeral of the ancestor of one of its characters — Scyld , the king of the Danes , who according to legend came drifting to land as a baby , naked on a wooden shield . |
| 18 | The 45 they 've decided to pluck from this last collection if ‘ Suck You Dry ’ , a glorious slab of grunge that opens with the innocent sound of a tambourine beating time and then explodes into a vampiric rocker that comes across like the successor ( at last ! ) to ‘ Touch Me , I 'm Sick ’ . |
| 19 | The month opens with the 21st Guernsey International Air Rally , on October 2/4 . |
| 20 | The second section , devoted to the political powers of the period , opens with the splendours of the imperial court : precious manuscripts and goldsmiths ' work , and models of royal residences and churches . |
| 21 | Ulysses opens with the horrifying story of the blinding of the one-eyed Cyclops , told with gusto , and goes on to recount the many other dangers Ulysses faced during his 10-year voyage on the ‘ wine-dark sea ’ , trying to get home after the siege of Troy . |
| 22 | It opens with the eponymous party in progress ; Edward Chamberlayne is the sole host since his wife , Lavinia , has suddenly and unaccountably left him . |
| 23 | And then , for the first time in his place of birth , he read The Dry Salvages which opens with the Mississippi , the river which had so impressed his childish imagination . |
| 24 | Consider the typical structure of a news broadcast which opens with the ‘ headlines ’ — a set of summary statements — which are followed by a news item that consists of an expansion and repetition of the first headline , in which is embedded a comment from ‘ our man on the spot ’ that recapitulates the main points again , then , at the end of the broadcast , there is a repetition of the set of headlines . |
| 25 | Certainly the generals had direct access to the Assembly , and could propose motions : one inscription ( Syll.132 ) opens with the formula ‘ by the motion of the generals ’ . |
| 26 | 1 John Le Carré 's novel The Russia House opens with the following three paragraphs . |
| 27 | The novel opens with the combustion of seven housewives who have fallen victim to the latent flammability of the most recent invention of United Volcanic Industries ( manufacturers of synthetic fabrics from volcanic ash ) . |
| 28 | The novel opens with the sentence : ‘ I shall soon be quite redundant at last despite of all , as redundant as you after queue and as totally predictable , information-content zero ’ ( 5 ) . |
| 29 | It opens with the words for the period ending the third of December nineteen ninety one . |
| 30 | The text opens with the words of St Paul to the Ephesians ( 4:1 ) videte vocacionem vestram ; the copy in the manuscript belonging to the Yorkshire man , Robert Thornton , renders this vividly as " seese callynge " [ seese : take possession of ] . |