Example sentences of "start at the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petalling starts at the bottom and works up , overlapping so it looks like a tiled roof because theoretically that sheds the rain . |
| 2 | It 's going to be a constant struggle and it 's going to start at the grassroots and we should n't see anybody 's experience as not worthwhile . |
| 3 | The secret 's to start at the bottom and work up . |
| 4 | TRACE II has no choice but to start at the beginning and work rightwards , since input directed to feature detectors automatically results in activity at the phonetic and lexical levels through the hard-wired connections . |
| 5 | Erm To start at the top and unfortunately I 'll reread Hughie 's notes . |
| 6 | By the end of the year there were at least five methods of conducting business , starting at the centre and moving towards the periphery . |
| 7 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 8 | This is in sharp contrast to Britain where progress up the hierarchy of the party is very much a process of starting at the bottom and working up , first to a seat in Parliament and then , possibly , to ministerial office . |
| 9 | The process was repeated by starting at the bottom and working upwards . |
| 10 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 11 | He had tried starting at the end and flicking to the beginning . |
| 12 | First the mouth will split , giving rise to a disc with two orifices , which gradually move apart , then the disc itself begins to divide , starting at the edges and moving inward until two polyps of approximately the same size are produced . |
| 13 | To find where the blockage is ( unless it is simply the gully itself which is blocked ) , you will have to lift the inspection chamber manhole covers starting at the house and working outwards . |
| 14 | Most of these are basically simple , involving sitting or lying down comfortably and focusing awareness on a pleasing thought ( ‘ Still and calm … still and calm ’ or whatever ; or invent your own ) ; a soft ‘ nonsense sound ’ ( a mantra ) that you repeat under your breath ; on the rise and fall of your chest as you breath ; or successively on different parts of the body , starting at the toes and working upwards . |
| 15 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 16 | In Roman hemispherical domes , brick radiating ribs started at the springing and met at the apex . |
| 17 | I started at the Grosvenor and visited about thirty-five before I stopped . ’ |
| 18 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 19 | Always start at the edge and not in the middle . |
| 20 | They start at the beginning and tell the whole story , pulling no mathematical punches but providing so much historical and biographical material , as well as physical explanations , that a complete mathematical ignoramus could gain much from the work by reading the words and skipping the equations . |
| 21 | We seldom just start at the beginning and read straight through sequentially to the end . |
| 22 | On February 18 they start at the Tap and Spile in Darlington where they will play every other Tuesday , and on February 23 they play their first date at Queen Catherines Hotel , Osmotherly , which is also a fortnightly affair . |
| 23 | As my husband says , ‘ Thatching is rather like life : you start at the bottom and work up . ’ |
| 24 | Start at the bottom and go up the top . |
| 25 | Start at the top and work downwards , wiping in horizontal sweeps . |
| 26 | Start at the top and check ridge tiles . |
| 27 | As a general rule , start at the top and work down . |
| 28 | So if you start at the centre and draw a line and mark off seventy two degrees , |
| 29 | If bandage-type insulation is used , start at the tank and tie the first wrap , pressing it in close contact with the tank |
| 30 | Start at the hip and work your way slowly up to the armpit and back down again . |