Example sentences of "have started [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new venture has started well with a range of articles covering the period 1660 to 1799 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We could have started again along a happier route , a fertile crescent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang ? |
| 7 | ‘ But you must have started out as a baby , ’ the boy said . |
| 8 | The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state . |
| 9 | But it could equally well have started out in a very lumpy and disordered state . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er so we 've started off with a number of relatively nitpicking erm erm points . |
| 12 | Her pains , which had started long before a frightened Rose , acting as an amateur midwife , had thought to send for him , had stopped — a bad sign . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion . |
| 17 | Like Michael he had started out as a ‘ breaker ’ — a heavy — until he had built up his own business . |
| 18 | What had started out as a bad day had suddenly become brighter . |
| 19 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 20 | But what had started out as a dream come true had , within hours of their leaving England , turned into a nightmare . |
| 21 | It had started out as a panacea for one failed relationship and had quickly become a relationship in itself . |
| 22 | She looked very vulnerable and Emily wished that they had started off on a more pleasant footing . |
| 23 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |
| 24 | 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 . |