Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] open " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents know what their children are longing for and will give them what they want , even if every piggy bank in the house has to be broken open . |
| 2 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 3 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
| 4 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |
| 5 | That is the reason why that option has to be kept open . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) A partial offer must be kept open for at least 21 days ( Rule 31.1 ) whereas an on-Exchange tender offer is only required to be kept open for eight days . |
| 7 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher has welcomed news from British Rail that the Norton to Ferryhill route is to be kept open for freight traffic , but also says that an improved service is badly needed through Stockton station . |
| 8 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 9 | The Saturday Review attacked Palmerston for receiving the delegation , having said that the question of style was to be left open for the next session . |
| 10 | The mines were dangerous , the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor . |
| 11 | If windows are to be left open — a controversial point — they need mesh or other guards attached , to prevent the entry of insects . |
| 12 | One year later , Constitutional Government was established in Portugal , and the Cortes ( Parliament ) ordered the doors of all religious houses to be thrown open . |
| 13 | Such attitudes need to be laid open to examination and discussion . |
| 14 | Rain gusts at the kitchen window and the outer door , its wood swollen by damp , has to be wrenched open . |