Examples of opened

• The Chairperson opened the proceedings with a short speech.

• I've opened an account with a building society.

• The show will open with a firework display.

• The album opens with his most famous song.

• Let's open with a reminder of what we did last week.

• I can't open my bag - the zip has stuck.

• I just opened the drawer as usual and the handle came away in my hand.

• The customs officials made us go through the whole rigmarole of opening up our bags for inspection.

• We must open the channels of communication between the two countries.

• The door opens outwards.

• The box office opens at ten.

• The Queen will open the new visitors' centre.

• The opening of the superstore will sound the death knell for hundreds of small independent shops.

• The factory opened last November.

• The corner shop opens at five o'clock in the morning.

• The market has been opened up to private investors.

• By denying responsibility for the matter, the minister has opened himself up to criticism.

• Deregulation has opened the rail industry to competition.

• The chairman opened up the meeting to questions from the audience.

• Organizers have been urged to open the race up to international runners.

• At the same time, third instar larvae were transferred to the upper surface of the first fully opened mature leaf of individual plants.

• These developments opened the gap between the size of the economically active population and that of the population of working age.

• But it is sound recording, electronic technology and most recently the computer, which has opened up a musical exploration not previously possible.

• It opened an epistemological gap, a void in maleness itself.

• Note the common atrioventricular valve in the closed (left) and opened (right) positions.

• The right atrium opened into a right side morphologically left ventricle through a dilated mitral valve which obviously had bee incompetent during life.

• The unions' attacks on the exhibition's administrative structure and procedures began before the first post-war exhibition even opened its doors.

• A range of new questions has arisen, and the latest developments have indirectly opened up still wider areas of research.

• Many of the papers in this volume have opened up new questions and new agendas.

• In choosing the latter he opened up the possibility of drawing on alia tuna musical profiles, and seized the opportunity three times.

• The small intestine was opened longitudinally and examined for helminth parasites under a low power binocular microscope.

• From the very beginning, representatives of the government opened every meeting by presenting their proposals and obtaining approval of them from representatives of the associations.

• Only those with influence in the city, guild and parish were handed keys, and only a few keys opened each chest or door.

• The top three types remained completely dominant, but newer farmstead and harvest machines opened up the hierarchy further down.

• These openings were covered with curtains which could be opened from behind.