Sentence examples for begun from scratch from inspiring English sources

They exercise far greater control over their work, but each movie, begun from scratch, with technicians and members of the cast hired separately, takes much longer to launch and complete, and the enormous rise in production costs (more than sixty million dollars for a major studio film) has been jacked up, in part, by the staggering increases in what stars are able to demand and receive.

Dr Venter's ambition to create a living organism from close to scratch began 15 years ago, and it has been public knowledge for a decade.

So they began from scratch a few yards away.

Next the legal team started drawing up the contract, beginning from scratch.

Nobody's talking about tearing it all down and beginning from scratch.

With absolutely no data to fall back on, they had to begin from scratch.

Some guests brought leftovers, some used leftovers to make something new and some began from scratch.

The Energy Department's investigation will not have to begin from scratch.

The new team of Pei, Cobb Freed and Skidmore Owings & Merrill will, in effect, begin from scratch.

Come at this way, she felt like a strange girl, with whom he must begin from scratch.

The operation is risky, a one-shot deal, he said, because if the attempt fails, the ship cannot be put back on the seabed to begin from scratch.