Example sentences of "start out [prep] [art] " 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 | Each individual man starts out as an animal with a potential ( genetic predisposition ) for acquiring culture ; we become civilized human beings by virtue of our training ; our moral judgements derives from that training . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As a consequence , the government starts out with a legitimacy based on the will of the people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Weber speaks for an individualism which starts out from the ‘ subjective meanings ’ which individuals attach to their actions and , when he moves to ideal types of rational action , his focus remains on individual choices . |
| 12 | And now today she was going to start out as a student , this lovely girl that Emily still looked on with awe . |
| 13 | If you prefer to start out as a pay-as-you-go rower , try the Nottingham-based National Water Sports Centre 's Rowing Club . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature . |
| 16 | But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern . |
| 17 | We started out into the snow and stepped on to the ice-covered apron ; that soon took the look off Nathan 's face . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 22 | In this case , what started out as a sideline soon became of major importance . |
| 23 | Cut off from the world for a weekend , what started out as a bit of a laugh for Gordon , Angus , Roy and Neville turns into a carnival of recrimination , backbiting , French cricket and sausages . |
| 24 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 25 | What started out as a potential disaster provided a great opportunity to create something really different . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 28 | Even then I started out as a singer , until it struck me that I 'd absolutely no chance of making it — something to do with having an absolutely diabolical voice , I think . |
| 29 | A Full Service Bank started out as a book about Operation C-Chase , and was commissioned well before the collapse of BCCI last July . |
| 30 | It started out as a means of protecting Parliamentary privilege and was probably first stated as a principle back in the 18th century by Willes J in Millar v Taylor . |