Example sentences of "have started [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being both an exotic and a carnivore , it has started out with a double disadvantage , and sections of the rural population hate it with an intensity normally reserved for foxes or , worse , polecats . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor . |
| 4 | How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang ? |
| 5 | ‘ But you must have started out as a baby , ’ the boy said . |
| 6 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 7 | The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state . |
| 8 | But it could equally well have started out in a very lumpy and disordered state . |
| 9 | Paul joined FWWG in November 1991 as a trainee instrument designer having already gained a HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Glasgow Polytechnic — a fair achievement having started out on a Youth Training Scheme [ YTS ] course as a trainee computer programmer . |
| 10 | However , having started back at the club it has become apparent that the club has no intention of coaching last season 's players to highlight weaknesses and prepare them for the higher level of rugby . |
| 11 | Mr Goodman adds that the company was fortunate to have started up in the recession , because services could be had more cheaply than in easier times . |
| 12 | Er so we 've started off with a number of relatively nitpicking erm erm points . |
| 13 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 14 | Conversation had started up among the customers in the tavern again , although two had left while the company had been talking amongst themselves . |
| 15 | Whereas Vidor had started out with a theoretical notion and then wrapped it in a melodrama , Capra had started out with a fairly ordinary story and then breathed charm , wit , pace , sex , and reality into it , not least by harnessing the natural talents and showmanship of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable . |
| 16 | Whereas Vidor had started out with a theoretical notion and then wrapped it in a melodrama , Capra had started out with a fairly ordinary story and then breathed charm , wit , pace , sex , and reality into it , not least by harnessing the natural talents and showmanship of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable . |
| 17 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 18 | What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion . |
| 19 | Like Michael he had started out as a ‘ breaker ’ — a heavy — until he had built up his own business . |
| 20 | What had started out as a bad day had suddenly become brighter . |
| 21 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 22 | But what had started out as a dream come true had , within hours of their leaving England , turned into a nightmare . |
| 23 | It had started out as a panacea for one failed relationship and had quickly become a relationship in itself . |
| 24 | She looked very vulnerable and Emily wished that they had started off on a more pleasant footing . |
| 25 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |
| 26 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 27 | The carcasses of houses , and beginnings of new throughfares , had started off upon the line at steam 's own speed , and shot away into the country in a monster train . |
| 28 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |