Example sentences of "the first [adj] step " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although getting to the right beach was the first logical step in amphibious raids — as the ISTD Centre had implied in their 1938 studies — the chronological development of these operations was less orderly . |
| 2 | The OECD stated in late 1983 that acid rain damage represents 3 to 5% of the European Community Gross National Product — or between £33 billion and £44 billion per year while the first joint step to combat air pollution in the European Community came in March 1984 when Environment Ministers agreed that new industrial plants could not be built without authorization relating to specific limits for industrial emissions . |
| 3 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 4 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 5 | DesignWorks is/was the first tentative step into the Windows environment for Cambridgeshire firm GST and was reasonably well received by reviewers , but with one or two caveats . |
| 6 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 7 | Against this background the government decided to bring forward its economic programme as a matter of urgency , adjusting prices as the first concrete step in the development of a free market economy . |
| 8 | The first upward step of any born in Paradise Street was a room of one 's own . |
| 9 | This was particularly true of the first essential step of holding a council . |
| 10 | This is the first essential step towards practical project planning and development . |
| 11 | The first critical step was to ask the right question . |
| 12 | The first practical step towards reducing the potential threat of the autonomous power of the political organizations was , in fact , military in nature . |
| 13 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 14 | By enabling IBM Cobol/VSAM CICS applications to run on Unix systems , says Crawford , users are offered the first easy step in moving off their proprietary mainframes ; he reckons Unikix facilitates 200–600% long-term cost-of-ownership savings for a typical customer . |
| 15 | ‘ A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life ’ — Oscar Wilde . |
| 16 | The first major step towards what became known as ‘ detente ’ was probably the Partial Test Ban Treaty , signed by Britain , the USA , the USSR and eventually 103 other nations ( but not China or France ) in 1963 . |
| 17 | It is the first small step towards growing crops in space to make long spaceflights self-sufficient in food . |
| 18 | It was the first big step towards mechanising industry and then transport . |
| 19 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 20 | And we now have got the first step er sorry not , not strictly speaking , the first steps of course were economic th that we had a strategic embargo and an economic embargo er on er on the Serbs and er on , on the er the , the different regions er th the first military step however is air strikes and we 'll know er within a week I think whether in fact this step will be actually taken or whether the threat is sufficient to induce er the belligerents to come to a negotiated settlement . |
| 21 | The first formal step towards an accounting standard was the ASB 's discussion paper , which appeared in December 1991 . |
| 22 | This choice of emphasis turned put to be the first valuable step along the long road to defining a viable approach to Blue Skies research . |
| 23 | The first positive step in the post-war consolidation of Western Europe came about through Ernest Bevin 's down-to-earth leadership amongst his Continental colleagues , which helped General Marshall to push his aid programme through Congress , thus pre-empting an economic collapse and a Soviet take-over . |
| 24 | That Sunday she took the first positive step towards keeping a check on her child . |
| 25 | And in doing that they have taken the first positive step towards solving it . |
| 26 | In 1960 , California enacted the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Act which required all new vehicles to have installed certified pollution control technology ; this was the first positive step towards reducing vehicle emissions which caused the smog . |
| 27 | It comes as no surprise to discover from another source that in 1921 the Kursk guberniia party committee had tried to deal with these problems ; ‘ the purge of the party was the first basic step towards the strengthening of the personnel of the party and yielded enormous results . ’ |
| 28 | The foundation of the ECSC marks the first significant step towards European union that went beyond being merely consultative and intergovernmental in character . |
| 29 | The first important step was made by an amateur , a Swiss schoolmaster called Balmer . |
| 30 | Where you study is the first important step towards survival and success as a student . |