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

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1 It is recognized that any programme of improving information management will cost money , in the form of staff and equipment , but any money spent will result in opening up the wealth of our information resources to larger numbers of people .
2 She also delivered her own populist riposte , opening up the possibility of a referendum on the issue of the introduction of a single European currency .
3 These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites .
4 Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 .
5 A European Court of Justice ruling on July 21 was seen as opening up the possibility of EC citizens applying for social security benefits in the United Kingdom even though they lived outside the UK .
6 US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease .
7 Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances .
8 Identifying a discharge as ‘ polluting ’ is the first step in opening up the sequence of decisions to be made about modes of control .
9 Such international collaboration is now continuing to locate the gene itself , opening up the prospect of devising a test to find out which women are at risk of developing the disease .
10 ‘ It acknowledges the success of the JY team in opening up the world of current affairs for ordinary people .
11 His other principal concern was using steam power to open up the interior of Africa to trade .
12 The criterion-basis of the new examination seemed to open up the possibility of an assessment system that would be public , open , and uniform , yet applicable to virtually all pupils in school , whatever their ability .
13 To open up the possibility of independence there 's only one party that is interested in independence , and that 's the Scottish National Party , ’ he says .
14 It was argued that it would be undesirable to open up the possibility of private prosecution , and that the sensitivity of the area was such that it was imperative that prosecution policy be consistent .
15 But to regard such [ cultural ] forms as ‘ saying something of something ’ , and saying it to somebody , is at least to open up the possibility of an analysis which attends to their substance rather than to reductive formulas professing to account for them .
16 A few jokes would help to open up the absurdity of the way things are . ’
17 Robert had tried to open up the subject of Hasan several times , but Mr Malik seemed far less concerned about him than he had been .
18 The remainder of the chapter begins to open up the question of what impact new technology is having on whatever jobs may remain .
19 In doing so we shall begin to explore the ways people respond to and cope with high levels of uncertainty and demand , and to open up the question of whether some of these ways are misguided .
20 Despite its limitations , the project has done something to open up the question of study skills , develop inservice structures and practices , create a core of schools where good practice has been established and from which it might be disseminated , and has clearly improved secondary school library provision through ( amongst other things ) the quality of book selection .
21 We certainly would not wish to open up the question of need within that area .
22 The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust .
23 In 1771 the completion of the Bromberg Canal had linked the Vistula with the Oder and Berlin ; the Dniepr-Bug Canal and the Dniepr-Niemen Canal ( 1775–84 ) opened up the possibility of river trade as far south as Kiew and the Black Sea .
24 Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself .
25 Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services .
26 Preston 's Rule helped the Zeeman Effect become an important tool in spectrum analysis , and opened up the possibility of quantum physics .
27 How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ?
28 At a recent meeting of the party 's Central Committee , President Gorbachev opened up the prospect of a future coalition government when he talked of ‘ equal possibilities for the Communist party and other political and social organisations . ’
29 A deal signed with the American biotechnology firm , Genentech , for the mass-production of the protein opened up the prospect of supplying a massive world market for haemophiliacs .
30 ‘ Systematization ’ opened up the prospect of complete subordination to the State , the Party or , to be precise , to Ceauşescu .
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