Example sentences of "start off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's part of an education philosophy which I must remind erm which I must remind you starts off with local financial management of schools within the Education Service erm prior to local financial management County Hall was big brother . |
| 2 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 3 | ALTHOUGH YOU would n't think it if you watched it , TV-AM , the commercial breakfast television station , started off with grand plans to offer viewers a little science with their cornflakes . |
| 4 | He rejoices at the fact that they started off with small-town views , and began thinking globally . |
| 5 | The general theory of relativity , on its own , can not explain these features or answer these questions because of its prediction that the universe started off with infinite density at the big bang singularity . |
| 6 | Not surprising Dilys Palmer was one of its founding fathers ( mothers ? ) with the Washington Development Corporation , who started off with green fields and five working pits and made a new town of it . |
| 7 | Despite occasional April showers , the tennis season started off in great style at the Bourne Club last Sunday , with a very well attended Open Day . |
| 8 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 9 | The Premier , writing in the London Evening Standard , started off in anti-Maastricht mode , referring to ‘ bloody battles ’ during negotiation and urging EC leaders to ‘ reflect ’ . |
| 10 | So if you started off in complete darkness you rotate until you get complete darkness or the opposite . |
| 11 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 12 | To grow good berries it is necessary to start off with good trees of the right variety . |
| 13 | It is possible , however , to start off with good intentions , but to slip back on all these important elements once the pressure of circumstances begins to dictate . |
| 14 | And I would recommend we just stick with something very basic to start off with like paracetamol , two four times a day Something so very very simple like that . |
| 15 | okay , and the vocabulary you 're gon na use but to start off with terrified that 's that 's really good . |
| 16 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 17 | This could be explained as resulting from the dynamical drag of the surrounding gas provided that the galaxies start off with individual dark haloes . |
| 18 | When you finish testing , well , as you test you start off with simple numbers and you then start changing some of the numbers , to test other aspects , and eventually you 're happy that everything seems to be working alright . |
| 19 | Start off with small squats , bending your knees and hips just a little . |
| 20 | Many start off with high hopes but there is a lot of hurt . |
| 21 | The income of inhabitants does not change in the same proportion if they start off in equal housing . |
| 22 | Well I do n't ring up the client now , I make a note to ring them Monday night , because every approach session should always start off with warm calls , I do n't know if Alan told you that . |
| 23 | It did n't just start off with human beings , they s started in sectors and it spread . |
| 24 | You 'd start off with parliamentary business then have a review of foreign affairs , and very important departmental things may often have to be shoved out of the way to another Cabinet . |
| 25 | Mental-health promotion programmes in the Third World must start off with clear aims before seeking help and advice from Western countries . |
| 26 | He says that his data showed that those businesses with low investment intensity did indeed start off with high ROI , as the earlier cross-sectional studies discovered , but that this often led managers to over-invest . |
| 27 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |