Example sentences of "[art] starting [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This observation was the starting point for a study of a large sample of gold-weights from three museums . |
| 2 | This little incident could well be the starting point for a very interesting research project . |
| 3 | The evidence from folklore that some form of energy is associated with ancient sites in general and stones in particular was the starting point for a research effort initiated in 1977 by Paul Devereux , editor of The Ley Hunter . |
| 4 | Such politics stress the local or the specific without assuming that they constitute the starting point for a global hegemony into which they will be subsumed . |
| 5 | In some cases the starting point for a set of language materials has been quite simply the power of the medium to tell a good story . |
| 6 | Here at last was the starting point for a science that would attempt to explain the present state of the earth and its inhabitants in terms of natural processes acting over long periods of time . |
| 7 | The United Nations ' mediator , Diego Cordovez , admitted for the first time that a Geneva agreement on a Soviet troop withdrawal would only be the starting point for a settlement . |
| 8 | They proposed that a preparatory committee should start work in July , to prepare for " a summit meeting of the CSCE participating states before the end of this year " in Paris to " mark the starting point for a more advanced stage of the Helsinki process " [ see p. 37386 ] . |
| 9 | The starting point for a contract is frequently a published ‘ Invitation to Tender ’ . |
| 10 | It may be taken by any student as an outside subject , or may form the starting point for a single or joint honours MA in Scottish Ethnology . |
| 11 | Both of these important studies describe childhood lack of care as the starting point for a life history of misfortune and a high risk of depression . |
| 12 | Estimate the starting rate for a load inertia of 2 x 10 4 kg m2 and a load torque of 0.1 Nm . |
| 13 | The plan is not a blueprint for the future , it stresses , merely the starting signal for a process in which dialogue and choices made by individuals , private industry and government will shape the environmental programmes : ‘ What we want to do , in the realization that we do not understand all the relationships , is to indicate the conditions under which an environmental quality can be attained that will provide future generations with as many options as possible . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For example it could be used to get a group to make a list of all the means of communication they noticed , as a starting point for a session on one particular aspect of communication . |
| 17 | The database is a starting point for a detailed reconstruction of the city 's housing market . |
| 18 | ( This will later form a starting point for a discussion on interpretations of history . ) |