Example sentences of "start off [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 2 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 3 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 4 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 5 | The ideal LAN workstation starts off with a worthwhile degree of poke ( fast 386 with 4Mb of RAM ) and is upgradeable ( OverDrive socket or daughterboard , spare SIMM slots , easily uprated video ) . |
| 6 | Rather than starting off with a blank sheet towards all class members , it may be that because of natural assertiveness , boys dictate a particular kind of response from teachers , quite independently of the details of the situation . |
| 7 | You go back into concentrated training in the spring highly motivated , starting off from a new plateau . |
| 8 | For Scottish couple Annie and Lachlan Stewart , what started off as a fun Christmas exhibition in their London home has led to a flourishing tartan ceramics business and the relocation of their company , ANTA , to the north of Scotland . |
| 9 | What started off as a local sale ended up to prove very beneficial for all the Medical Services branches . |
| 10 | At least it started off as a quick explanation , but almost without noticing , she was soon telling Antony everything she had felt or feared in the past week . |
| 11 | But , there comes a time in every painting when a clean , new brush has to be used to add detail or to control a passage of the work that started off as a spontaneous accident , or alternatively to lay on a clean glaze . |
| 12 | The ST started off with a rubbishing piece by the paper 's acting literary editor , Harry Ritchie , which was followed by protesting letters and the main feature in last week 's Books supplement . |
| 13 | We started off with a positive number here , and a positive number there , and we divided one positive number by another positive number . |
| 14 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 15 | Chairman Michael started off on a nice tripartisan note which er I think we on this side er did appreciate and it 's true that this panel er has agreed a great deal , covered a lot of ground and er I think er avoided the sort of er , er controversy etc. , etc. , was which we 're now caring now we are arranging in practical groups does mean the Labour groups has introduced a sound note er Brian started off by saying that the Conservatives er were not interested in an economic development strategy , er I must point out that and this activity derives from the local government managing act nineteen eighty nine , and by the present Government . |
| 16 | The PMIS started off on a sound basis under the guidance and the professional advice of the IMS . |
| 17 | The day started off on a bad note for Jess James from Charlton depot , his car broke down just 15 minutes from The Belfry . |
| 18 | Unlike Felix the Cat or Mickey Mouse , brought to life in motion pictures , Asterix started off in a comic strip . |
| 19 | However , the grouting can easily get discoloured and dirty-looking , so it might bc better to start off with a dark grouting from the beginning . |
| 20 | This allows customers to start off with a diskless system and expand gradually up to 5Gb . |
| 21 | In this way , what might have started off as a cyclical deficit will soon become a structural deficit unless action is taken to bring borrowing down . |
| 22 | Remember that season was started off with a freak result vs Newcastle . |
| 23 | Reluctant participators who start off with a limited range of interest and involvement in management are unlikely to find it easy to commit themselves to new and broader aims . |
| 24 | First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late . |
| 25 | Start off with a basic check list along these lines ; then you wo n't leave out anything important . |
| 26 | They regularly assert that the significance of an observed action is symbolic ( rather than functional ) and they start off with a basic assumption that emotions and attitudes are just as much observable characteristics as colours or structures . |
| 27 | When you go househunting with the Bristol and West , you start off with a big advantage . |
| 28 | These white athletes under such circumstances may start off at a psychological disadvantage . |