Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] start " in BNC.
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1 | THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement . |
2 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
3 | Today we 're off to Spain where Nigel picked up his fourth win out of four to get his Grand Prix season off to a fantastic start . |
4 | Through William Agnew 's painting , and the notice it received , the Building Fund ( Agnew 's brainchild ) got off to a splendid start , and Agnew 's energy and his business contacts throughout Glasgow soon saw the Fund grow quickly . |
5 | Our fashions are off to a gentle start with soft neutral colours but do n't miss the great style of the shawl-collared coat by Nina Miklin ( Pattern 3 ) . |
6 | I still found the argument extraordinary , but I also had to take into account the fact that if Nigel retained this stance then the committee meeting would have to be postponed and the whole exercise would get off to a terrible start . |
7 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
8 | Mr Brown got the Blackpool conference off to a storming start , brushing aside fears that it might be distracted by Euro rebel Bryan Gould 's resignation from John Smith 's top team . |
9 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
10 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
11 | However , I 'm very much looking forward to being a member of N C V O as well as being a consumer of its excellent services , and while I 've got the the platform , I 'd like to take this opportunity to wish Judy every success as Director of N C V O. I think she 's got off to a marvellous start , and I 'm sure that N C V O's gon na flourish under her leadership . |
12 | In general , DATEC courses seem to have got off to a reasonable start in the art colleges . |
13 | Given that the evening was meant to be so special , so significant , they could hardly have got off to a worse start , but Jessica refused to compromise . |
14 | Olympia 's new ‘ Belorussian Series ’ gets off to a cracking start with a pair of discs , one featuring the music of Dmitry Smolsky ( ) , the other , Yevgeni Glebov ( ) . |
15 | SAGITTARIUS- THE year gets off to a cracking start for Sagittarians : The eclipse on December 9 , 1992 was the first of four to exert a powerful effect on your life — especially if your birthday falls between November 22 and December 11 . |
16 | Well , you 've certainly got off to a cracking start , mocked a small ironic voice inside her . |
17 | In short , the event got off to a cracking start . |
18 | The latest version got off to a controversial start when it was decided to cast stunning French actress Juliette Binoche in this most English of dramas . |
19 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
20 | An analyst yesterday said the issue ‘ is set to get off to a good start ’ . |
21 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
22 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
23 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
24 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
25 | That way , the conference gets off to a good start because people are raring to go and in the right frame of mind . |
26 | Named copies distributed well before the start of school on Monday , with spare copies posted on the staff room notice board gets the week off to a good start . |
27 | If you are determined to give up smoking , you are already off to a good start . |
28 | The book gets off to a good start and the first chapter is one of the most stimulating — though I do not necessarily agree with all of it . |
29 | Wednesday , 28th August , 1839 , the first day of the Tournament , got off to a good start with a bright sun shining from a clear blue sky and the temperature high . |
30 | Giving a little thought to body language beforehand will get you off to a good start . |