Example sentences of "[verb] to take the [adj] step " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 2 | CSM fears to take the first step that might disrupt its partnership with industry . |
| 3 | GRAHAM BARROW hopes to take the first step towards a brighter future for Chester City today . |
| 4 | Therefore Schaffner was forced to take the unusual step of shooting it mostly in sequence , getting on with what had already been written . |
| 5 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 6 | Directors who ought to have realized that insolvent liquidation was inevitable , but who failed to take the necessary step to minimize the potential loss to creditors . |