Example sentences of "have to start from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Currently CND has to start from scratch every time the target changes its name — from Cruise to Trident most recently .
2 But it is as though she has had to start from square one .
3 Would it be possible to re-use old programs written for conventional machines , or would users have to start from scratch and throw away their existing investment in software ?
4 ‘ I think I 'll have to start from scratch .
5 They know that if we veto the changes to the Treaty of Rome , they 'll have to start from scratch , and none of the institutions of the EC would have any legal or political purchase over what they are doing …
6 Albania does not have to start from scratch .
7 We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings .
8 Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world .
9 After that I searched high and low for a new teacher , and when I found one I had to start from scratch .
10 FRANK FREEMAN had to start from scratch .
11 Yet while Iago had to start from scratch , foment hatred , poison sight , and invert reality to set his chosen enemies against each other , all that Goneril and Regan have to do to get a third of Britain is to make the kind of noises Lear expects to hear ; indeed , since Cordelia wo n't flatter , they get her part too , and even her coronet as an unlooked-for bonus , Lear 's only ‘ free gift ’ , to use the language of modern advertising promotions ( ‘ This coronet part between you ’ ( King Lear , 1 .
12 Already qualified , she had to start from scratch .
13 If , 73 years after its foundation , we have to start from basics , one wonders if we are ever going to get there .
14 If you have to start from scratch you need to think quite carefully about the ability-grouping and gender-groupings .
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