The phrase "propose to start" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to suggest an idea for beginning a project or activity, or to put forward an action plan. For example, "We should propose to start the project with a brainstorming session."
We propose to start a national park in our highlands.
Today the police propose to start fingerprinting 15,000 people who live in Blakelaw or who are known to have visited the area on New Year's Eve.
Although, by reductio ad absurdum, everyone must be related to one another if you go back far enough, I propose to start this memoir with my grandfather, Clinton Evelyn, the first Dawkins to go to Balliol College, Oxford.
And the changes would be phased in (administration officials propose to start the reform in 2009 for workers 44 years or older).All this is politically astute, and necessary.
You bring up the issue and propose to start on time.
Thus, if they did propose to start implementation immediately, they would lose the 2012 elections in tsunami.
"We are not proposing to start a new process to discuss the Egyptian-Jordanian paper," Mr. Moussa said.
"But the obligation to tell the truth is heightened when one is proposing to start a war as opposed to proposing to put a television spot up".
Added to that, we were proposing to start an e-commerce business selling clothes directly to British men – almost unheard of at the time.
The project runs in Bristol and almost a dozen London boroughs, and people are proposing to start GoodGyms everywhere from Glasgow to Gibraltar.
To exploit the Yankees' potential, the team proposed to start a network with the International Management Group that would guarantee it approximately $900 million in television revenue through 2010.
