Example sentences of "start off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 4 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 5 | A banker 's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange , which is itself a form of IOU . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They believe that the operating system of a nome starts off as a goose . |
| 8 | Yeah everybody starts off as a sergeant . |
| 9 | What starts off as a bit of a laugh could quickly turn into an embarrassing muddle . |
| 10 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 11 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
| 15 | Pillars of Gold starts off with a woman 's body being fished out of Camden Lock and a woman called Barbs going missing . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | One way of putting this difference between the bounded nature of research and the comparatively unbounded nature of higher education is to say that , in research , the researcher starts off with a fairly hazy idea of what might emerge and ends with a precise formulation or conclusion , whereas in higher education , this is reversed . |
| 18 | The student starts off with a fairly definite hold on the world , built on reasonably stable concepts and ideas , but at the end of the course has grasped that very little of the intellectual world has enduring substance and that there are always more cognitive spectacles to put on . |
| 19 | One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing . |
| 20 | The foreign-language teacher usually starts off with a class with a set to learn . |
| 21 | The game starts off with a view looking through a camera which can be moved around the course using arrow icons . |
| 22 | In fact if you 'll if you look in here you you get a it starts off with a tour of er head office and all our facilities there . |
| 23 | Yes , I I think , in cer in in most cases that would happen , would n't it , if if if the child starts off with a feeling of insecurity , with possible instability . |
| 24 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 25 | He describes a ‘ good-enough mother ’ ( i.e. , a mother as good at being a mother as any of us can expect either to have or to be ) as someone who ‘ starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant 's needs , and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely , gradually according to the infant 's growing ability to deal with her failure . ’ |
| 26 | Everyone had a potential for narcissism because the baby starts off in a world of its own , in a state of primary narcissism . |
| 27 | Till September headline tonight with their five-piece brand of fully-rounded rock , starting off with a rousing ‘ Something Left To Believe In ’ . |
| 28 | Away supporters are seldom , if ever , present and the crowd has less solidarity : the match-day involvement is more privatised , starting off with a family ‘ tailgate party ’ ( an informal car-park meal ) before each spectator strolls to his or her seat . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You go back into concentrated training in the spring highly motivated , starting off from a new plateau . |