Example sentences of "start [adv prt] with a [adj] " 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 The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching .
3 It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Till September headline tonight with their five-piece brand of fully-rounded rock , starting off with a rousing ‘ Something Left To Believe In ’ .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Started off with a thousand pound , two thousand pound .
11 We started off with a positive number here , and a positive number there , and we divided one positive number by another positive number .
12 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 .
13 Col. and Mrs Travers in Shiplake had a team of thirty , or so , helpers for their Garden Party , which started off with a magnificent anonymous donation of £300 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action !
16 So we only we only need to start off with a third of that .
17 This allows customers to start off with a diskless system and expand gradually up to 5Gb .
18 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 .
19 I must admit that we ourselves started out with a strong women 's following , but I think that 's because of society and the way men are brought up not to be so immediately emotional .
20 He started out with a 2.1 in politics and economics from Keele University , and , wanting to keep his options open , decided to train as a chartered accountant .
21 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 .
22 Remember that season was started off with a freak result vs Newcastle .
23 I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils .
24 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 .
25 What 's Start off with a hundred pound
26 Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on .
27 Start off with a hundred .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Start off with a basic check list along these lines ; then you wo n't leave out anything important .
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