Example sentences of "[vb -s] off to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olympia 's new ‘ Belorussian Series ’ gets off to a cracking start with a pair of discs , one featuring the music of Dmitry Smolsky ( ) , the other , Yevgeni Glebov ( ) . |
| 2 | SAGITTARIUS- THE year gets off to a cracking start for Sagittarians : The eclipse on December 9 , 1992 was the first of four to exert a powerful effect on your life — especially if your birthday falls between November 22 and December 11 . |
| 3 | That way , the conference gets off to a good start because people are raring to go and in the right frame of mind . |
| 4 | The book gets off to a good start and the first chapter is one of the most stimulating — though I do not necessarily agree with all of it . |
| 5 | Conversation gets off to a limp start . |
| 6 | The Third Sonata , with its echoes of the Third Concerto ( a work in which Gavrilov particularly excels ) , gets off to a blistering start indeed — the outer sections of this work allowing Gavrilov ample room to flex his very considerable technical muscles . |
| 7 | Short gets off to a bad start |
| 8 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
| 9 | THE 1993 Historic Scotland Events Programme gets off to a dramatic start on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May , with a major battle re-enactment by the Sealed Knot at Linlithgow Palace and Peel . |
| 10 | The evening gets off to a wobbly start , with Liz Robertson 's Maria belting out the title song on an artificial hillside which is anything but alive . |
| 11 | Flor gets off to an impressive start ; the terraced dynamics and tempi of the opening section are brooding and solid , with deep , ruminative phrasing from the Concertgebouw basses . |
| 12 | The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body . |
| 13 | Just why is unclear but follow it and , four miles before Gubbio , a road branches off to the beautiful region of Monte Maggiore . |
| 14 | There are signs of civilisation along here , with a scattering of crofts and farmsteads , and a narrow road branches off to the isolated community of Badluarach , a lonely outpost at the entrance to Little Loch Broom . |