Example sentences of "[noun] start off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 6 | Blacks start off with an added advantage of being able to move . |
| 7 | The day started off on a bad note for Jess James from Charlton depot , his car broke down just 15 minutes from The Belfry . |
| 8 | This allows customers to start off with a diskless system and expand gradually up to 5Gb . |
| 9 | The ST started off with a rubbishing piece by the paper 's acting literary editor , Harry Ritchie , which was followed by protesting letters and the main feature in last week 's Books supplement . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 12 | Unlike Felix the Cat or Mickey Mouse , brought to life in motion pictures , Asterix started off in a comic strip . |
| 13 | Two beetles start off from the same point in opposite directions . |
| 14 | The PMIS started off on a sound basis under the guidance and the professional advice of the IMS . |
| 15 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 16 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 17 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 18 | Chairman Michael started off on a nice tripartisan note which er I think we on this side er did appreciate and it 's true that this panel er has agreed a great deal , covered a lot of ground and er I think er avoided the sort of er , er controversy etc. , etc. , was which we 're now caring now we are arranging in practical groups does mean the Labour groups has introduced a sound note er Brian started off by saying that the Conservatives er were not interested in an economic development strategy , er I must point out that and this activity derives from the local government managing act nineteen eighty nine , and by the present Government . |