Example sentences of "[be] open to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got ambition , you 've got drive , you 're open to new experience . |
| 2 | As the House knows , we have long believed that the Community should be open to European countries who want to join and can take on the responsibilities of membership . |
| 3 | These would best be resolved by a form of cost-benefit which pays close attention to the social ‘ externalities ’ involved in investment projects , which compares the time profiles of return on projects competing for resources at non-usurious rates of discount , and which does not operate with the technocratic pretension that all factors in an investment decision can be rigorously quantified ( i.e. which does not disguise as purely technical questions matters which should properly be open to political debate ) . |
| 4 | However , the conclusions of these writers may be open to certain lines of criticism , and some writers who have addressed the question of nuclear weapons and the laws of war have reached conclusions which are significantly different in important respects . |
| 5 | But if a mortgage deed did expressly so provide , the enforceability of such a provision would , in our opinion , be open to serious question on public policy grounds . |
| 6 | The monitoring should be open to internal criticism and external assessment from time to time if this is agreed on . |
| 7 | Therefore I would not necessarily be looking for a secretarial position , and would be open to other suggestions . |
| 8 | The web may be open to other styles of description . |
| 9 | The force , to be known as the European Corps , was intended to operate under the umbrella of the Western European Union ( WEU ) and would be open to other WEU members . |
| 10 | As a result , errors can occur in the processing of the royalty payments and the contract may be open to various interpretations . |
| 11 | The legality of an appeal committee 's decision would be open to legal challenge if there was a failure to comply with natural justice — for example , not giving an appellant an adequate opportunity to state his/her case . |
| 12 | stated that in his opinion that if the Institute did recommend such action and an embalmer became infected as a result , the Institute could be open to legal action . |
| 13 | Both antecedents and consequences should be open to systematic change . |
| 14 | For the first time the Christian TV Week , co-organised by WACC 's European Regional Association and UNDA ( International Catholic Association for Radio and Television ) , will be open to private , commercial broadcasters as well as public TV stations . |
| 15 | The housing committee says it no longer has any use for the site and it will now be open to private development . |
| 16 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |
| 17 | Future prospective studies should now evaluate the clinical relevance of this method , which , through its analytical simplicity and limited patient efforts , should be open to wide use . |
| 18 | Once the use of a partial empirical model is accepted then it will be open to constant revisions and adjustments as new data become available . |
| 19 | In addition , the role of the words in Wagner 's music drama would be open to damaging criticism on Schopenhauerian grounds , although this further problem only impinged fully on Nietzsche at a later date , when his interest in Wagner was of a different order altogether . |
| 20 | Only the United States had no state airline , and believed that airways should be open to free market capitalism : ‘ In general , the Chicago conference can be described … as an attempt by the United States to capitalise on its overwhelmingly strong bargaining position in international aviation by securing for itself a near monopoly of long-haul air transport . ' |
| 21 | Other areas should be open to free competition . |
| 22 | Under the 1988 Act the following services must be open to competitive tender if the council wishes to permit its own service departments to participate : |
| 23 | He might then be open to bitter objections from many adults . |
| 24 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 25 | What is needed is a willingness to be open to fresh possibilities — to be prepared for a constant voyage of exploration . |
| 26 | In the second place , the account that has been provided has been shown to be open to differing interpretations of value ; in other words , while we may agree what the main changes in the family have been , we may disagree over whether or not we approve of these changes . |
| 27 | This tear , under the new agreement , the canal will be open to foreign yachts , which will be able to enter Lake Saimaa 's 124 x 186 mile ( 200 x300km ) network of estuaries , lakes and islands . |
| 28 | A decree signed in October allowed for the gradual deregulation of the oil industry , whereby the exploration and exploitation of oil reserves , hitherto the sole province of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales ( YPF ) , would be open to foreign companies and all YPF oil wells would be privatized within six months . |
| 29 | The plantations would be open to foreign acquisition but overall foreign ownership would be limited to 30 or 40 per cent . |
| 30 | Will he confirm , therefore , that it will be open to hostile and foreign bids and that such a bid could provide a foothold in the Welsh water industry for further takeovers ? |