Sentence examples for a proper beginning from inspiring English sources
"a proper beginning" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you are introducing a new concept or idea. For example, "Getting organized is a proper beginning to achieving your goals."
Finally, a Proper Beginning: (in honour of which I go into the present tense).
Where other works treat religious skepticism as a dead end, The Will to Imagine argues that skepticism is the only point from which a proper beginning in religious inquiry and in religion itself can be made.
Wrapped up in one another and without a proper beginning or end, the series of colored-pencil-drawn illustrations allude to nudes and abstract art.
I already have the album, but I've been looking for this promo 12" for a while because the LP version is short and has a fade-in intro, whereas this version is a little longer and has more of a proper beginning than just a fade-in (better for playing in a DJ set!). Actually writing this out makes me feel like some sort of recluse stamp collector.
Compulsive shopping has at least some of the hallmarks of a proper disease, beginning with a classical diagnostic tag: oniomania, from the Greek verb for "to buy".
You always want to put your best face forward, and preparing for the GRE is the proper beginning.
Thursday was the proper beginning of Hopscotch and I took it slowly.
His one attempt to tell a proper 'joke' begins: 'Queen Victoria goes into a pub and says, "Can I have a pint of Guinness?" and the barman replies, "After what you've done to Ireland?"', and escalates into an intricately referenced debate on the whole of nineteenth-century expansionist politics.
The earliest collections simply presented ancient quotations organized by the quoting author, and it was not until the work of, and that attempts at a proper reconstruction began.
As the first games proper begin, a middle-aged female player tugs a sleeve and asks for a private word.
The first shot he fires is an indigestible meal ("Our tale proper begins with the eating of an onion"), which prompts a brilliantly inventive nightmare sequence, with Fairbanks chased by giant vegetables, walking on the ceiling (thanks to a revolving room and camera) and entering a posh party wearing saggy pyjamas.
