Sentence examples for were the start from inspiring English sources

"The 1928 Olympics were the start of the modern era," he said.

But for Morriss those early days were the start of something bigger.

These arrests were the start of the 1956 196161 Treason Trial.

The killings were the start of what Manson believed was a coming race war.

So we passed on play dates for fear those sniffles were the start of something worse.

But they were the start of this whole thing - as, indeed, they told Lord Hutton in the plainest terms.

The last six months of 2015 were the start of something else, a separate story half-told.

Actually, the government never left, and the events were the start of a personal cataclysm for Mr. Ipek.

For the Irish, they were the start of the  final struggle for the freedom of another little country.

Those conversations were the start of a collaboration that bloomed into a sylvan trip, and a beautiful book.

Indeed, there can be little doubt that the early years in Paris were the start of his phenomenal promiscuity.