Example sentences of "open to the " in BNC.

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1 Naipaul may in consequence be open to the charge of trying to diminish both the Michael X murders and the politics of the Caribbean .
2 Once installed , he wrote , it will start to do its work , and it will go on doing it , in the day-time , in the night-time , in the midst of visitors and in the empty silence , when the mausoleum is open to the public and when the mausoleum is closed to the public .
3 Pre-Victorian pubs were largely run on the basis of waiter-service , following from the original concept that the pub was a house open to the public for refreshment — hence the term ‘ public house ’ .
4 There is just one problem with that essential book Gardens of England and Wales Open to the Public 1991 — there are over 2,600 gardens to choose from .
5 This stance has a very small target profile indeed , though it is wide open to the foot sweep and also reduces the competitor 's choice of technique to the back fist or the side kick .
6 An exhibition charting the history of Hampton Court , and the restoration of fire damaged apartments is now open to the public .
7 As the beer has been vented and is open to the atmosphere , each cask must be sold within three or four days to stop the beer becoming oxidised .
8 What one hopes for is for the student to remain open to the possibility of aesthetic experience , to accept and enjoy it when it occurs , but not to fake responses if it does not .
9 Lebanese parliamentary sessions have to be open to the public .
10 The chairman of the House defence sub-committee , John Murtha , a Democrat from Pennsylvania , has indicated that he is open to the kind of budget cuts made in the Senate because of the continued restraints on total military spending .
11 Known as the Cabinet War Rooms , the complex has only been open to the public since 1983 .
12 Almost all the trust 's properties are open to the public .
13 The actual meeting will be open to the public .
14 ‘ It is routine procedure that there needs to be more than one staff member on the premises when a project is open to the public .
15 Nevertheless , he appeared to suggest Mrs Thatcher ‘ may well have been ’ open to the charge of stifling dissent in the past .
16 He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts .
17 It alleged the industry had paid off several Socialist MPs to block legislation in parliament that would have laid pachinko parlours more open to the scrutiny of the tax authorities .
18 Its cobbled courtyard and centrepiece — the thirteenth-century Knights ' Hall — are open to the public .
19 A suspicion that the normal liberal interpretations of the evidence about the apostolic Church , among the leading English thinkers of the day , were clever and persuasive and yet were open to the charge of superficiality .
20 He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition .
21 Cricket was even less open to the winds of free competition .
22 Most of our garden is open to the sky , and of course East Anglian skies are wonderful , but here you can walk in the shade . ’
23 Mr Ridley said it would be open to the companies to approach th OFT again closer to the opening of the tunnel .
24 ‘ Teenagers are very open to the world .
25 But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate .
26 The rail , airways and waterways chiefs then outlined their plans , before the Chairman threw the subject open to the Council members .
27 This was open to the criticism that it imposed constructive liability : a person who risked a minor assault might be held guilty of a more serious offence if ‘ actual bodily harm ’ happened to result .
28 It is open to the obvious objection that it focuses on an outcome which may be a matter of pure chance : if such driving happens not to result in death , the charge will merely be drunken driving .
29 We are invited to be open to the choices each of them represents .
30 In winter the small heaters were only on at night and the runs were open to the weather all day .
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