Example sentences of "starts [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 2 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 3 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 4 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 5 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 6 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | The ideal LAN workstation starts off with a worthwhile degree of poke ( fast 386 with 4Mb of RAM ) and is upgradeable ( OverDrive socket or daughterboard , spare SIMM slots , easily uprated video ) . |
| 8 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 9 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 10 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 11 | He starts out with a full clip of ammo , but watch out ( Beadle 's about ) , it 's limited — make sure you hit 'im first time . |
| 12 | Death Becomes Her is a glitzy , glossy affair which glides through its paces in vapidly enertaining Zemeckis style , but a movie which starts out with a huge talent to amuse loses its impetus . |
| 13 | The serious student of animal behaviour starts out with a basic premise , namely that every spot of colour , every strange posture , every tiny movement that an animal makes , has some special meaning . |
| 14 | This mode of political religious action no longer starts out from a universal centre and figure , such as the papacy , but rather from the national or local church within the state , whose ‘ magistrates ’ — Calvin 's term for lay political leaders — are ideally Christians of moral rectitude , who perform this duty as one ordained by God . |