"commences by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English, and it is typically used when referring to the beginning of a process or activity.
For example: "The meeting commences by reviewing the agenda for the day."
She commences by observing that "at least 25 former truckers are currently serving time in American prisons for serial murder".
The Court long ago noted the venerable role the Declaration plays in our tripartite system of government in Florida: "It is significant that our Constitution thus commences by specifying those things which the state government must not do, before specifying certain things that it may do.
The study commences by deriving analytical expressions for the bit error rates (BERs) of the primary and secondary users.
This paper commences by defining an assessment procedure, showing how maintenance intervention strategies and Life-Cycle Costs (LCC) may be affected by future climate.
This paper commences by outlining emergent engineering knowledge, showing the general conservatism of current methodologies available to assess the integrity of decommissioned offshore facilities.
The paper commences by reviewing the literature on sustainable intelligent buildings research and presents a pilot-study investigating the problems of complexity and subjectivity.
In the 79 hospitals in which the MET commencement date was known, 75% of MET services had commenced by May 2002.
On Delta, new travel has to be commenced by Sunday.
A private prosecution is commenced by requesting a summons from the magistrates' court.
Accordingly they commenced by an insidious debauching of the public mind.
"We will be looking to continue the woodland restoration work commenced by the previous owners and their tenants.
