Example sentences of "start out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 2 | The basic story is the conflict between two college students : Hector , the basketball star who starts out with no political convictions , and Gabriel , a radical anti-war activist . |
| 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 | This mode of political religious action no longer starts out from a universal centre and figure , such as the papacy , but rather from the national or local church within the state , whose ‘ magistrates ’ — Calvin 's term for lay political leaders — are ideally Christians of moral rectitude , who perform this duty as one ordained by God . |
| 8 | If you prefer to start out as a pay-as-you-go rower , try the Nottingham-based National Water Sports Centre 's Rowing Club . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | An invention that started out as a simple toy for children grew over the years to become a lifetime hobby for millions of people . |
| 11 | While you , Dorothy my dear , started out as a small tub , straight into deep choppy waters , with quite a few holes in the bottom , no rudder , no sails . |
| 12 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 13 | Since there is no guarantee that the behaviour of participants during the life of a co-operative R&D venture will mesh with their initial goals , or that new , anticompetitive restrictions will not be added to what started out as a pro-competitive co-operative R&D agreement , it is hard to believe that immunity from prosecution is an attractive policy option in the absence of continuous monitoring by the antitrust authorities . |
| 14 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 15 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 16 | What started out as a loyal band of Kylie watchers has now grown into a legion of Wannabes : teenage girls who spend all their waking hours trying to dress , talk and sing like Kylie . |
| 17 | It introduced new stars like Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder and what started out as a low budget film featuring little-knowns became Warners ' biggest grossing movie of the decade . |
| 18 | The pivotal early scene in The Buddha of Suburbia ( Faber & Faber , 2 April , £12.99 ) started out as a short story in the TLS . |
| 19 | What started out as a potential disaster provided a great opportunity to create something really different . |
| 20 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 21 | The long-standing idea that the Earth started out as a molten mass , gradually cooled and shrank to its present size ( a theory that still had adherents well into the 1950s ) , had to be abandoned . |
| 22 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 23 | JCC , a 14-year old company with 100 staff , originally started out as a high-end workstation manufacturer . |
| 24 | Yeah erm well that can , that can be difficult erm I know er when er when Dave did his psychology degree here erm he started out as an electrical engineer and he got interested |
| 25 | His Quaker father started out as an illiterate nailer at Stourbridge , but , through thrift and considerable business acumen , became a manufacturer of nails on the putting-out system , an ironmonger , and an owner of iron-refining works . |
| 26 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 27 | Lorenzo da Ponte ( 1749–1838 ) , the son of a converted Jewish tanner , started out as an ordained priest , but any hopes of a successful career in that direction were scotched by his uncontrollably amorous nature . |
| 28 | Yet Jane Goodall started out with no formal scientific training . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Redcar 's City Challenge co-ordinator Dave Bottomley said : ‘ We started out on a confident basis with well-prepared plans which have resulted from the last five years of work under the Regeneration of Redcar banner . |