Example sentences of "start [adv prt] with [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , the beetles ’ surface starts off with only two dimensions . |
| 2 | It is probably better to start off with too many regulators which can then merge , rather than starting off with too few and attempting to build on them . |
| 3 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 4 | It is fine to start off with just one or two very straightforward ones such as ‘ have my hair restyled ’ or ‘ buy a new dress ’ and perhaps ‘ take a holiday abroad next year ’ . |
| 5 | It is possible to start off with just one or two tags which control the main typographic elements but by the time page numbers , headers , footers , indexes , etc have been added the list can get unwieldy . |
| 6 | It is probably better to start off with too many regulators which can then merge , rather than starting off with too few and attempting to build on them . |
| 7 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 8 | Try not to start out with too many fixed ideas of what is going to happen . |
| 9 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |
| 10 | Conversely when two sides start out with widely different overt objectives it may be easy to overlook such common objectives as may be present . |
| 11 | On the other hand warrants invariably start out with much longer lives and are exercised on dates predetermined by the issuing company . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , most marriages would start off with as good a chance of success as failure , I suppose , if it were n't for outside influences , but there are too many women like you around , taking what you want with no thought for anyone else involved , and then hanging on once you 've got it — out of sheer habit or emotional laziness , it sometimes seems to me . ’ |
| 13 | Siemens AG formed a joint venture with TN Inc Ltd of Thailand to market and service PABXs in Thailand and the new unit , TN Communication Systems Ltd , is pitching for at least 25% of the market ; the new company , 49% owned by Siemens , will start out with about 100 employees . |