Example sentences of "starting [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , most cunningly of all , he did not raise the starting level for higher-rate income tax . |
| 2 | The list of Scottish footballers who have frequented their local turf accountant is longer than the starting lineup for the Grand National , but when it comes to identifying the ante-post favourite one player stands out above the rest . |
| 3 | These forms of art , however , can generally be believed to have only a friendly connection with their inspiration , which , indeed , is normally only the starting point for the exercise of the talent of the musician or the poet . |
| 4 | His exposed starting point for the ascent was the strategically positioned rock ledge now named the Bower . |
| 5 | Another hotel that would make a good starting point for a weekend — or longer — in East Anglia is the Black Lion at Long Melford . |
| 6 | Secondary data provide an excellent starting point for many international marketing research projects . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Drawn to the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction aspects of Spanish history , Gironella found in Veláquez 's portraits a perfect starting point for a detailed investigation of the contradictions which go to make up modern Mexico . |
| 9 | The revolt of the Bonn government against this antique thinking can be seen as the starting point for the great burst of German national assertion which culminated yesterday in the streets of Berlin . |
| 10 | Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms . |
| 11 | The post has been vacant for months and the lack of suitable candidates puzzled officials as the job proved the starting point for such politicians as Mr Chris Patten , Mr Iain Macleod and Mr Reginald Maudling . |
| 12 | The post has been vacant for months and the lack of suitable candidates puzzled officials as the job proved the starting point for such politicians as Mr Chris Patten , Mr Iain Macleod and Mr Reginald Maudling . |
| 13 | The Global Strategy paper that they produced pleased Churchill , and it became the starting point for the development of British military strategy in the nuclear era . |
| 14 | They will survive unscathed and largely unregulated until their activities unleash another financial disaster ; at which point this book will be a useful starting point for moppers-up . |
| 15 | This observation was the starting point for a study of a large sample of gold-weights from three museums . |
| 16 | Again , although not guaranteed to be foolproof , the basic philosophy of the techniques described should provide a good starting point for the work of others . |
| 17 | Our starting point for analysing structure happens to have been with an exercise , the form of drama popularised by Brian Way , and yet little attempt has so far been made by him or by anyone else to show how these apparently slight adjustments within the structure of the exercise can seriously affect the outcome . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Situated a little off the beaten track , the Hahnenhof is 15 minutes walk from the town centre , and is a good starting point for many pleasant rambles . |
| 20 | A valuable starting point for a study of the flora of the Outer Hebrides is the paper by Dr. H. R. Fletcher ( 1959 ) entitled ‘ Exploration of the Scottish Flora ’ , in which he discusses plant recording in that group of islands . |
| 21 | The 3c trituration powder ( details of the preparation of this are in §270 ) is the starting point for the preparation of the LM scale because all remedies are soluble in water at this point ; so any remedy can be utilised even the insoluble materials such as Carbo Veg , Aurum etc . |
| 22 | It was an important starting point for the anger which under later pressures inspired movements of independence . |
| 23 | Marx 's starting point for both analysis and strategy was a world system , not one or other country . |
| 24 | I have already considered in some detail the starting point for these studies — Lawrence 's ( 1949 ) experiment . |
| 25 | They should only be used as a starting point for normal contrast subjects . |
| 26 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 27 | Cholesterol is also the starting point for the body 's manufacture of bile acids ( which are need for the digestion of fat ) , steroids ( including those all-important male and female sex hormones ) and vitamin D ( which is made by the action of sunlight on cholesterol in the skin ) . |
| 28 | Adorno offers one starting point for such a history . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Fleming 's paper on an antibacterial substance from a Penicillium mould was a natural starting point for a branch of Raistrick 's research . |