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 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 3 | Perhaps if , as I am told , they are a branch of Ladbrokes , they are hedging their bets , i.e. waiting to see if any other company takes the first step ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | He breathes , digests , lifts an arm , takes the next step , without thinking how to do it , and if bad health forces him to analyse and choose in such peripheral matters he is sorry to be distracted from his central concerns . |
| 7 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 8 | Why not take the first step to a happy ending — and complete the coupon right now ? |
| 9 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 10 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |
| 11 | The rift between them is now so bitter , it is believed they will take the final step as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Will 1991 see him take the final step to greatness ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There 's reasons for it , of course … there always are … but she could take the wrong step … out of cussedness . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Caddis houses helped us take the previous step ; snail shells will help us take this one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Compared with that , is taking the final step with me so scary ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yet a combination of gut anti-European prejudice and some strange part-ideological , part-mystical belief in a largely bogus economic sovereignty ( witness the events of last week ) prevents her from taking the one step which would give credibility to the fight against inflation . |
| 24 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |
| 25 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 26 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 27 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 28 | An increasing number of people are taking the heady step of starting their own business . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |