Example sentences of "take the [adj] step " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a profile in the latest issue of New York 's Vanity Fair magazine , Mrs Clinton takes the astonishing step of naming Mr Bush 's alleged former mistress . |
| 2 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 3 | Unless Sir Robert Armstrong takes the unprecedented step of issuing a statement , this will have to remain one of what he has called ‘ the marvels and mysteries of Cabinet government ’ . |
| 4 | The rift between them is now so bitter , it is believed they will take the final step as soon as possible . |
| 5 | Will 1991 see him take the final step to greatness ? |
| 6 | In genetic hyperspace , Nautilus appears to be sitting right next door to an obvious and immediate improvement , yet it does n't take the small step necessary . |
| 7 | The RFU should also take the overdue step of encouraging the development of the game in state schools by paying teachers for the time they spend coaching . |
| 8 | Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said he expected the project to proceed , but did not say whether the government would take the unprecedented step of overriding the commission ; environmentalists have pressed for a tunnel to be built instead . |
| 9 | There 's reasons for it , of course … there always are … but she could take the wrong step … out of cussedness . ’ |
| 10 | So spoke Arnold Wesker at the Riverside Studios where , next week , he will take the unusual step of mounting eight rehearsed readings of his play , Shylock , formerly titled The Merchant , in a bid to raise enough interest from commercial backers to persuade them to mount a full production . |
| 11 | The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ . |
| 12 | Caddis houses helped us take the previous step ; snail shells will help us take this one . |
| 13 | They were all minors and Joseph was taking the normal step to protect their interests , for if Ann remarried the estate would pass to her new husband . |
| 14 | Compared with that , is taking the final step with me so scary ? |
| 15 | It remains a Soviet priority to dissuade the ASEAN states from taking the final step that would transform ASEAN into a Western-sponsored security system . |
| 16 | An increasing number of people are taking the heady step of starting their own business . |
| 17 | The Taiwan Rugby Football Union is taking the adventurous step , one which has not been contemplated before , of sending a national squad overseas solely for training purposes . |
| 18 | CompuAdd Computer Corp , the Austin , Texas personal computer manufacturer and retailer , is taking the drastic step of closing all 110 of its stores at the cost of over 600 jobs . |
| 19 | Very careful thought is needed , though , before taking the big step of spending a large sum of money to purchase a regular income , for there can be snags , and it is wise to get quotations from several of the major insurance companies , and the advice of a solicitor , before proceeding . |
| 20 | Immediately after Mr Lamont sat down , the Prime Minister took the rare step of issuing a brief statement , obviously aimed to pour scorn on those who say his days as Chancellor are numbered . |
| 21 | The Conservative Party took the rare step of disclosing the amounts after Prime Minister John Major faced a demand from Labour leader John Smith to change the law , forcing political parties to make public the donations they received . |
| 22 | Immediately after Mr Lamont sat down , the Prime Minister took the rare step of issuing a brief statement aimed at countering speculation that his days as Chancellor are numbered . |
| 23 | Aggie , sitting looking into the fire , nodded as she thought : And aye , Mama took the only step left to her , and look where it 's got her . |
| 24 | In 1980 the protesters even took the daring step of erecting a scaffolding tower across the path of the train carrying waste barrels on their way to the docks . |
| 25 | In 1612 the ambassador in Paris took the desperate step of writing directly to James I to ask for money and persuaded the duc de Bouillon , one of the greatest French nobles , to back his request . |
| 26 | On the advice of M Broussonet MD FRS , perpetual secretary of the Royal Society of Agriculture in Paris , he took the momentous step of obtaining six months ' leave of absence to visit England . |
| 27 | In December 1974 the Democratic caucus in the House took the momentous step of agreeing to an automatic secret ballot election for all committee chairmen and went on to remove W. R. Poage , the chairman of the Agriculture Committee , F. Edward Hebert , chairman of the Armed Services Committee , and Wright Patman of the Banking Committee |
| 28 | When Peter the Great took the final step of proclaiming himself Emperor in 1721 he discarded the jewelled cap in which he and his brother Ivan had originally been crowned in 1682 . |
| 29 | It was in the summer of last year that Keith took the crucial step of admitting privately that he was an alcoholic . |
| 30 | In one such instance , when the party prospectively disadvantaged happened to be in government , the Home Secretary took the extraordinary step of introducing the order and advising his party colleagues in the House to reject it , which they duly did , the stated reasons being the desirability of awaiting the outcome of a local government review then pending . |