Example sentences of "start off [prep] a [adj] " 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 grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 6 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 7 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 10 | Till September headline tonight with their five-piece brand of fully-rounded rock , starting off with a rousing ‘ Something Left To Believe In ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You go back into concentrated training in the spring highly motivated , starting off from a new plateau . |
| 13 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 14 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What started off as a local sale ended up to prove very beneficial for all the Medical Services branches . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Started off with a thousand pound , two thousand pound . |
| 21 | We started off with a positive number here , and a positive number there , and we divided one positive number by another positive number . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Col. and Mrs Travers in Shiplake had a team of thirty , or so , helpers for their Garden Party , which started off with a magnificent anonymous donation of £300 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The PMIS started off on a sound basis under the guidance and the professional advice of the IMS . |
| 26 | The day started off on a bad note for Jess James from Charlton depot , his car broke down just 15 minutes from The Belfry . |
| 27 | Unlike Felix the Cat or Mickey Mouse , brought to life in motion pictures , Asterix started off in a comic strip . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action ! |
| 30 | So we only we only need to start off with a third of that . |