Example sentences of "start [adv prt] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Rather than starting off with a blank sheet towards all class members , it may be that because of natural assertiveness , boys dictate a particular kind of response from teachers , quite independently of the details of the situation .
7 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 .
8 Started off with a thousand pound , two thousand pound .
9 We started off with a positive number here , and a positive number there , and we divided one positive number by another positive number .
10 I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English .
11 However , the grouting can easily get discoloured and dirty-looking , so it might bc better to start off with a dark grouting from the beginning .
12 This allows customers to start off with a diskless system and expand gradually up to 5Gb .
13 If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority .
14 So if you are starting out with a good deal of weight to shed , it is wise to allow scope for reducing calorie intake in the later stages of dieting .
15 Remember that season was started off with a freak result vs Newcastle .
16 Reluctant participators who start off with a limited range of interest and involvement in management are unlikely to find it easy to commit themselves to new and broader aims .
17 What 's Start off with a hundred pound
18 First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late .
19 Start off with a basic check list along these lines ; then you wo n't leave out anything important .
20 They regularly assert that the significance of an observed action is symbolic ( rather than functional ) and they start off with a basic assumption that emotions and attitudes are just as much observable characteristics as colours or structures .
21 When you go househunting with the Bristol and West , you start off with a big advantage .
22 In this case , speakers or writers start out with a semantic representation of what they want to say or write , and search for the corresponding phonological information ( enabling one to say a word ) or orthographical information ( enabling one to write a word .
23 Most d-i-y tiles probably start out with a plain metal straight-edge , but find that it quickly slews off line when scoring a shiny tile surface .
24 Being both an exotic and a carnivore , it has started out with a double disadvantage , and sections of the rural population hate it with an intensity normally reserved for foxes or , worse , polecats .
25 How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang ?
26 Whereas Vidor had started out with a theoretical notion and then wrapped it in a melodrama , Capra had started out with a fairly ordinary story and then breathed charm , wit , pace , sex , and reality into it , not least by harnessing the natural talents and showmanship of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable .
27 Essentially the four areas are computational modelling , what contribution a do n't write these down because they 're not the same as the ones on the board , but it 's looking at the role of computational modelling in perception , although you could start off with a broader definition of it within cognitive psychology .
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