Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] first step " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might thus be able to provide the first step in assisting a school to maximise any award which it receives . |
| 2 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |
| 3 | For larger loads the time taken to reach the first step position is longer and therefore the time between successive step commands is automatically adjusted to allow for the slower rate of acceleration . |
| 4 | If the substrate S can be used for something else , it is clearly efficient to control the first step in the synthesis , S→A , rather than , say , the last one , E→P , because in the latter case E would accumulate . |
| 5 | There must now be a delay before the next step command is issued , so that the motor has time to execute the first step . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | CSM fears to take the first step that might disrupt its partnership with industry . |
| 8 | Indeed , to combine a noun with a verb , he says , ‘ is to take the first step toward narrative ’ ( 1969 : 84 ) . |
| 9 | Even though workers are prepared to accept a general reduction in the level of real wages , they are unwilling to take the first step of accepting money wage cuts in case other workers with whom they regard themselves as comparable fail to follow suit . |
| 10 | GRAHAM BARROW hopes to take the first step towards a brighter future for Chester City today . |
| 11 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 12 | The aim of the course was to get group members to think about disability issues in order to take a first step forward in working together . |
| 13 | But it takes nerve to make the first step . |
| 14 | As a result the IDA began what was to become the first step in the desperate local search for a toxic dump site . |