Example sentences of "a starting [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few ordinary citizens could afford to pay the 300 roubles which Kirov had set as a starting price for the most basic of suits . |
| 2 | As a starting place for research , secondary data can pinpoint areas where investigation should be carried out in further depth , and so can help to provide the direction and focus area for further research . |
| 3 | As a starting place for research , secondary data can pinpoint areas where investigation should be carried out in further depth , and so can help to provide the direction and focus area for further research . |
| 4 | When he has inspired sympathetic coverage , the results tend to be not so much an exposition of Gironella 's achievements but belong to that particular branch of literature which uses works of art as a starting point for literary excursus . |
| 5 | Examples might include having case-study documents of the new intake available as a starting point for a drama about prison ; a huge map for a drama about Treasure Island ; and architect 's designs of Paris sewers for a drama about a bank robbery ( I referred to this lesson in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | They should only be used as a starting point for normal contrast subjects . |
| 7 | As a starting point for thinking about the novelistic of television , I would propose a chronotope which , while retaining the centrality of character , frees space and time to a much greater extent from the strict service of narrative logic . |
| 8 | a week or so before the interview ask the subordinate to complete an appraisal preparation form so as to provide a starting point for the discussion |
| 9 | An agreed set of performance indicators would be a starting point for this . |
| 10 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 11 | There 's a strong and well delivered geographical link ( she uses the excellent Central Television series ‘ Going Places ’ as a starting point for her second-year juniors ) , but she does n't allow her topics to develop systematically into related areas of the curriculum . |
| 12 | At this stage it was not the intention to explore the real world on the basis of the model , but to use the model as a starting point for further development , and the analysts concentrated on specifying the transformation required , without too much concern about the system ownership , actors , etc . |
| 13 | Each one is a starting point for visiting England 's history . |
| 14 | It is a matter of simply assessing the likely direction and distance the ferret may have travelled within the system to establish a starting point for the search . |
| 15 | We hoped our approach to the curriculum would be seen as enabling rather than restricting , a starting point for teachers in their discussions with their colleagues , not a strait-jacket . |
| 16 | Therefore , a starting point for any discussion of community care must be a realistic appraisal of informal systems . |
| 17 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 18 | The topics aim to be both informative and educational , and can be used as a starting point for comparison with other cultures . |
| 19 | In Sweden ( a country I have visited regularly since 1976 ) there is a desire , expressed by both teachers and senior government educational advisors , to use the most recent läroplan ( the centrally imposed school curriculum ) as a starting point for creative teaching which takes into account the needs of children and the way in which they learn . |
| 20 | As a starting point for my research I decided to find out about the numbers of teachers who worked in secondary schools , the posts that they held and the distribution of men and women teachers to various posts , together with their qualifications and salaries . |
| 21 | For schools looking to develop a whole-school approach this diagram can provide a starting point for each department to articulate its position and , from these deliberations , find and build common bridges across subject departments to meet individual needs . |
| 22 | As a starting point for a full-function open operating system , VM could scarcely be bettered , but IBM in its wisdom poured money into MVS and allowed VM to wither on the vine . |
| 23 | After consulting with financial experts in the City of London , the researchers , who are from University College London , Queen Mary & Westfield College , Imperial College and City University , have decided to take options pricing as a starting point for their project . |
| 24 | The life preparation course , in its present form , is unlikely to meet their specific needs , but the curricular content could serve as a starting point for designing new provision which would . |
| 25 | These assumptions require some reconsideration as a starting point for the development of the postclassical perspective . |
| 26 | In his article in your March issue Mr Royalton-Kisch roundly criticizes Benesch 's serial method of making attributions to Rembrandt : as a result almost any Rembrandtesque drawing might find itself not just in the catalogue raisonné but might be used as a starting point for further attributions to Rembrandt . |
| 27 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 28 | Such ventures deserve support , for they provide a starting point for up-and-coming writers , and uncover important original material which budget-restricted professional historians no longer have the time to seek out . |
| 29 | The single pronuclear haploid eggs produced by activation serve as a starting point for parthenogenetic studies in mammals(2) . |
| 30 | A starting point for any analysis of this nature must be to establish clearly how dreaming differs from waking consciousness . |