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 | 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 . |
13 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
14 | Pillars of Gold starts off with a woman 's body being fished out of Camden Lock and a woman called Barbs going missing . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing . |
19 | The foreign-language teacher usually starts off with a class with a set to learn . |
20 | The game starts off with a view looking through a camera which can be moved around the course using arrow icons . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Everyone had a potential for narcissism because the baby starts off in a world of its own , in a state of primary narcissism . |
24 | Till September headline tonight with their five-piece brand of fully-rounded rock , starting off with a rousing ‘ Something Left To Believe In ’ . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | You go back into concentrated training in the spring highly motivated , starting off from a new plateau . |
28 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
29 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
30 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |