Example sentences of "[vb past] take [adj] steps " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , 88 per cent of the 243 of ‘ The Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed did take some steps to aid new staff who were moving to take up an appointment . |
| 2 | The ANC also received encouragement from the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) which announced on April 29 that it would consider staging a general strike if the government failed to take effective steps to halt the violence . |
| 3 | The facts must show , however , that whether A or B committed the final act , the other must have assisted , encouraged or , at least , failed to take necessary steps to prevent what happened . |
| 4 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 5 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 6 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 7 | And then , when he said that , Viola Angotti had taken two steps forward . |
| 8 | He had taken two steps when the guns stopped . |
| 9 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 10 | However , in most cases the crucial question will be whether the person seeking to rely on the terms had taken reasonable steps to give the recipient notice of their existence . |
| 11 | Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness . |
| 12 | Questions to determine whether he had taken any steps to prevent him driving may be necessary , such as ‘ Where are the ignition keys ? ’ or ‘ Is anybody else in charge of this vehicle ? ’ |
| 13 | By March 1962 , however , the Soviet military had taken several steps — nuclear weapons ' tests , the development of the ‘ global rocket ’ , the redeploying of launch sites — to bolster the credibility of the Soviet deterrent , and commentators once again ‘ buried the myth of the invulnerability of the United States of America ’ ( Pravda , 31 March 1962 , in Zimmerman : 1969 , pp. 189–90 ) . |
| 14 | The Beaver Committee defined 294 areas of England ‘ black ’ , requiring smoke control , and by 1974 all but fourteen local authorities had taken some steps towards implementing the Act . |
| 15 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |
| 16 | He said the region had to take urgent steps to repair the damage his statements had caused . |
| 17 | Willi was about four inches shorter than she was and tended to take bouncy steps . |