31.  The analogy has its limitations, but is a valuable starting point.

32.  The article provides a starting point for discussion.

33.  The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand is seen as the starting point of the war.

34.  The distributed mass of ricocheting impulses which form the foundation of intelligence forbid deterministic results for a given starting point.

35.  The following recipes are a good starting point for making your own bread.

36.  The following recipes might serve as a useful starting point for those who want to try smoking game.

37.  The legal definition of crime adopted here should be seen only as a starting point.

38.  The starting point is those aims which depend heavily on the particular contribution of DHAs.

39.  The starting point is to discover what words mean.

40.  The truth was somewhere at the end of the line and the first facts were a kind of starting point.