Example sentences of "to start at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 2 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 3 | But to start at the beginning . |
| 4 | The main night shift was due to start at 10pm . |
| 5 | Second favourite Shogun at 6–1 was the only horse apart from Craganour to start at less than 10–1 ; King George V 's horse Anmer , ridden by Herbert Jones , was 50–1 . |
| 6 | If a conference is due to start at 9.30am , be there at 6.30am . |
| 7 | Often , the best way to prove a mathematical theorem is to start at both ends , and try to meet in the middle . |
| 8 | I thought that since the recital is to start at 7.30 you might all like something a little substantial before we set out . |
| 9 | But for Pisa , which has lost much of its income from tourism since the tower was closed more than two years ago for safety reasons , the real miracle is that work is to start at last . |
| 10 | A worried Bank of England used the weekend to negotiate for the Portuguese currency to start at a higher level than that planned on Friday , but it clearly was not high enough for the pound . |
| 11 | My favourite tale , comes from Corner Pool , when Rob was fishing one cold March day : ‘ I was about to start at the top of the pool when I happened to spot a flicker of movement close to the north bank . |
| 12 | He has created a gap downwind into which he can accelerate to start at speed , whilst those around him will still be sheeting in . |
| 13 | This self-perception is said to start at birth as the infant begins to develop a feeling of trust . |
| 14 | It is often useful , when explaining a very large concept , to start at the beginning . |
| 15 | Although the average working week was still forty-eight hours , most men at that time had been reared when toil used to start at six o'clock in the morning and carried on until eight each evening . |
| 16 | The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing . |
| 17 | Children have to learn that it is easier to start at one end of a line of objects and finish at the other . |
| 18 | Any team dropping the matchbox has to start at the beginning . |
| 19 | I ca n't cope at all without a tin-opener — I 'm really hopeless — and of course it 's too late to start at my age . |
| 20 | Still , the tracers had to start at the beginning , their call-finder mechanism racing frantically through the twenty thousand numbers on the exchange . |
| 21 | Both men are part of a coterie of so-called ‘ rugby mercenaries ’ whose pay-offs are said to start at the $120,000 mark and the best-rewarded of whom — the ‘ rugby millionaires ’ — are reckoned to be paid $250,000 per season . |
| 22 | Another route was to start at Selby Road , the Croydon boundary and proceed along Croydon Road and Green Lane , Penge where it met a small enclave of Beckenham before the Lewisham Boundary . |
| 23 | And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either . |
| 24 | Accordingly , the conditions were amended to allow haulage operations to start at 5 am and continue until 9 pm at the Oundle Road operating centre ; Sundays and bank holidays remained inviolate . |
| 25 | Granted better luck he should get his head back in front and is likely to start at a reasonable price in this company . |
| 26 | Any kid will tell you that the worst part of moving house is having to start at a new school where you do n't know anyone , and I was scared stiff . |
| 27 | Television coverage is expected , and the first ‘ pull ’ is expected to start at 11.00 , continuing throughout the afternoon , with each team having two attempts . |
| 28 | The ceremony was supposed to start at 2 pm on the 29th : the Gulf on whose beach the men found themselves had been named San Miguel because of the happy coincidence of the feast day . |
| 29 | ‘ We have got to start at home . |
| 30 | Today is Pentium launch day when the likes of NCR Corp , Unisys Corp , Compaq Computer Corp and some two dozen other companies take the wraps off their first Pentium machines , but there is not much point in their making too much noise about it — Intel Corp expects to ship only about 10,000 Pentium chips to customers through June ; machines are generally expected to start at about $5,000 , but the Wall Street Journal hears that Advanced Logic Research Inc will announce a basic Pentium box for about $3,000 ; Compaq also plans an $18,000 Pentium version of its SystemPro server . |