Example sentences of "start at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incumbent 's output starts at a high level and gradually declines , whilst the entrants ' output starts low and gradually increases the more it discovers about the market . |
| 2 | A worried Bank of England used the weekend to negotiate for the Portuguese currency to start at a higher level than that planned on Friday , but it clearly was not high enough for the pound . |
| 3 | Any kid will tell you that the worst part of moving house is having to start at a new school where you do n't know anyone , and I was scared stiff . |
| 4 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 5 | Granted better luck he should get his head back in front and is likely to start at a reasonable price in this company . |
| 6 | The group is invited to start at a common point : response to a specific trigger — a research quote , a statement about opinions to be completed , a range of factors to be ranked for importance , a role play . |
| 7 | After an alleged assault on her birthday in September 1989 she could not face returning to the Royal High and missed eight months of education before starting at a private school . |
| 8 | Known locally as the Kenwood Triangle , Bishop 's Avenue has properties starting at a million pounds and rising to the £25 million asking price of the vast , newly-built Towers . |
| 9 | The commission had proposed a tax starting at a level equivalent to $3 per barrel of oil this year , rising to $10 per barrel by the end of the century . |
| 10 | They should be assembled " out of the way " at the top of memory ( each routine starting at a known address ) and then PROC_saved . |
| 11 | I started at a new school after Easter and this may have something to do with it because it was n't as bad before . |
| 12 | This is why you started at a safe height . |
| 13 | But in the same period the Government has increased the rate of national insurance contributions from 6.5 to 9 per cent , and , because these rates start at a lower threshold than taxation , the net effect has been to mitigate the changes in income tax . |
| 14 | Revenue figures necessarily start at a modest level and even 100 per cent growth leaves us with a level only slightly less modest . |
| 15 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |