Example sentences of "start off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How Christianity starts off as the religion of peace but ends up violent like other religions . |
| 2 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 3 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 4 | The fourth and fifth relate to a long-standing debate about the purpose of RE — this is the " confessional " approach which starts off from the assumption of the truth of a particular religious viewpoint and seeks to nurture pupils within , or strongly encourage them towards accepting , that viewpoint . |
| 5 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 6 | It 's a weird thing erm it starts off in the root and then it erm u used a single mouse fix to patch it |
| 7 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 8 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 9 | Starting off on the A one between Catterick and Leaming Bar , the weekend contraflow 's in operation at the moment . |
| 10 | Well starting off on the A one between Catterick and Leeming Bar there 's the weekend contraflow in operation there today . |
| 11 | Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think . |
| 12 | Starting off with the good Presbyterian family of Mr Moffatt at the corner — one of his daughters , Mrs Victoria Mullen , married a Methodist — there followed in order Englands , Magowans , Lyttles , Bells , McClatcheys , Lambs , Ramseys and Pattons . |
| 13 | If we 're doing add we 're just starting off with the counting numbers . |
| 14 | Starting off from the old town hall in the middle of the High Street he made his way slowly down the road as far as the Black Bull pub , accompanied by Mr Tim Devlin , who holds the Stockton South with a slender 774 majority , and his wife Carol . |
| 15 | Performance has to be exciting enough to make the boat attractive , but it has to be something that lighter and less experienced crews starting off in the class can handle . |
| 16 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 17 | We started off down the hill towards the police station ; the culprit , as we saw him , leading the four gringos . |
| 18 | He went outside , shutting the large doors silently and started off down the concrete road . |
| 19 | Alfred Hedgehog climbed up the bank of the canal and started off down the trail . |
| 20 | When her legs had stopped shaking sufficiently , she started off down the path again . |
| 21 | Without further ado , he started off towards the school buildings . |
| 22 | I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier . |
| 23 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 24 | She flushed scarlet , hastily collected as much as she could carry and started off up the cliff path . |
| 25 | The programmes started off as the ‘ Education by Radio ’ series broadcast by the Roman Catholic station San Rafael . |
| 26 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |
| 27 | Charles started off into the gloom . |
| 28 | So I started off with the idea that there 's this little baby in the cradle , he 's completely in the dark and the dark is something really frightening . |
| 29 | Gyggle started off with the most sophisticated of these , the symbol and colour cards , but was soon reduced to getting me to try and guess — and a guess is all I could make — which of three paper cups had a ping-pong ball under it . |
| 30 | But leaving that aside i i it started off with the , the Co-op in Scotland , and also Safeways . |