Example sentences of "step [prep] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It has also now taken the first steps towards setting up a country-wide party .
2 He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery .
3 Both moves were seen as tentative steps towards opening up the political system .
4 Others , most notably James Meade , had taken the all important step of opening up the Keynesian model so as to take account of and explain international trade and capital flows .
5 In August , as the first step to setting up an Islamic government in Harar , he peremptorily recalled its Governor , Dedjazmatch Tafari .
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