Example sentences of "[verb] start a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he wants to start a self-help group for people trapped between two cultures . |
| 2 | He tried to start a new conversation . |
| 3 | She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life . |
| 4 | You mark the card when you want to start a new colour . |
| 5 | Beginners ' German may contain 11-year-olds and 17-year-olds ( and , it is to be hoped , people who have long left school , and want to start a new language ) . |
| 6 | The group has started a fund-raising programme to finance the mission . |
| 7 | CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years . |
| 8 | Vladimir Geisberg , graduate of the then University of Leningrad , has started a new company , appropriately named Software Emancipation Technology ( SET ) , which last month introduced a family of software development products called ParaSet . |
| 9 | The discovery of the two bodies yesterday has started a new check on the 30,000 US civilians in Panama . |
| 10 | Oxford has started a new league : there are sixteen teams from all over the country competing , apart from the cycos there are the London Loonies , the Molesey Maniacs : its a whole new ball game . |
| 11 | The calm buoy loading system used on BP 's Buchan field in the North Sea has started a new lease of life off western Australia . |
| 12 | Help The Aged sale Help The Aged has started a two week summer sale in which all clothing and accessories will be offered at half price in its eight stores across the province . |
| 13 | In another move , Computer Applications Corporation , a leading Japanese software house , has started a joint venture with a Taiwanese firm called Systex . |
| 14 | The farmer , Colin French , who 's received more than sixty convictions for cruelty to his animals , has started a three month jail sentence . |
| 15 | Sunnyvale , California-based fingerprint recognition systems specialist Identix Inc says the New York City Police Department has started a six-month test program of Identix 's TouchPrint live scan computerised fingerprinting system in co-operation with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services in a playoff with another system — success would mean the installation of the equipment in all 75 city police precincts and a tie-in with the Statewide Automated Fingerprint Identification System . |
| 16 | Now the accountancy firm Coopers & Lybrand has started a full-scale inquiry to try to discover what has happened to the missing millions . |
| 17 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 18 | Some industry analysts believe that DVI has started a false hare which Philips and others are now chasing . |
| 19 | Accountancy Television has started a monthly video service , Professional Focus , aimed specifically at practising firms ' training requirements . |
| 20 | A business man who claims his bank is forcing him to pay exorbitant charges has started a local campaign to force the banks to change their ways . |
| 21 | For the past three months , as the illness slowly overcame me , I had struggled to start a new novel . |
| 22 | The Junior Members wanted to donate the £6 that they won as First Prize at Clun Carnival with Thomas , the Tank Engine , but , after some discussion with them , it has been decided to start a small fund for a Christmas Party for the Junior Members . |
| 23 | As Ashley Mountney could not become entirely independent of the wholesalers overnight it was decided to start a subsidiary company expressly for the retailing operation and in 1968 , little more than one year after the move to Carno , Ashley Shops ltd was formed . |
| 24 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 25 | Despite early suggestions she 'd started a new life in South Wales , she has never been found . |
| 26 | ‘ It is in the interests of both sides to avoid starting a spiral retaliation , which can only harm exports and damage prospects for a GATT agreement , ’ the Board of Trade president told MPs . |
| 27 | ‘ It is in the interests of both sides to avoid starting a spiral retaliation , which can only harm exports and damage prospects for a GATT agreement , ’ the Board of Trade president told MPs . |
| 28 | Sealink Stena intends to start a new service in the first week of May . |
| 29 | International Telecom Japan Inc says that it intends to start a leased line service between Japan and Moscow this summer , becoming the only alternative on the route to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp : it has teamed up with Russian satellite services company RSCC . |
| 30 | , we went in the August and they were back by September , so he could start back well school and I 'd been in , in the summer holidays and they said and I felt poor little bastard , got to start a new school , he ai n't gon na know anybody |