Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's significant , too , that while Herbert Tree was laying the foundations of drama training in England , the famous partnership of Stanislavsky and Danchenko in Russia was beginning , and saw the first developments towards the establishment of the Moscow Arts Theatre . |
| 2 | It saw the first public flotation of a building society , the first moves towards acquisition of a major bank , Girobank , by another society , some further widening of building society powers , a tendency for more societies to become ‘ tied agents ’ of insurance companies and further excursions by societies into the wider field of financial services . |
| 3 | The first moves towards redefining the-role of traffic in residential areas unquestionable took place in the Netherlands in the 1970 's and in particular in the city of Delft . |
| 4 | The first moves towards dating involved the ordering of finds according to an assumed technological development : the theory was that stone tools preceded copper tools , copper tools preceded bronze tools , bronze tools preceded iron tools , and that iron tools continued in use into the historical period when dates could be obtained from written records . |
| 5 | The first moves towards enlarging the Community came during 1961 and 1962 with the applications of Britain , Denmark , Ireland and Norway . |
| 6 | THE board of Barclays , Britain 's biggest clearing bank , yesterday announced the first moves towards appointing an outside chief executive in a clear response to shareholders ' recent criticism of existing top management . |
| 7 | One of the first ideas towards understanding number is accordingly that of a set of objects ( cars or people , etc . ) . |
| 8 | It has also now taken the first steps towards setting up a country-wide party . |
| 9 | ‘ We have already taken the first steps towards that goal . |
| 10 | A trust has now been able to acquire it and take the first steps towards long-term restoration . |
| 11 | The parliamentary session closed on 29th July , without any further progress being made , but on 4th August , Hall and Hunt met Cornewall Lewis and Trevelyan to obtain the Government 's approval for a competition , and to seek the first steps towards acquiring the land . |
| 12 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 13 | By learning to listen , by switching our attention to our inner world , we take the first steps towards creating joy and success in our lives . |
| 14 | The Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe ( Prosafe ) was also told that another 14 million are seriously injured as the first steps towards an Interpol-style consumer European protection agency were made yesterday . |
| 15 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 16 | The first steps towards using the new language in communication , both written and oral . |
| 17 | But that is no reason to delay the first steps towards a more selective , and hence effective , welfare state . |
| 18 | The FMLN motto is : " land is collective property , it belongs to everyone and is for everyone " ; and they are undertaking the first steps towards a genuine agrarian reform . |
| 19 | The Americans , reluctant to be accused of seeking ‘ domination ’ , and cautious about giving the Europeans a ‘ blank cheque ’ for costly military assistance in future , insisted that the Europeans should take the first steps towards defending themselves . |
| 20 | The adoption of standards by TDWG networking and the first steps towards ‘ taxonomically intelligent ’ integrity checking are enabling a second generation to appear . |
| 21 | Habituation and sensitization — often grouped together as non-associative learning — can be seen as the first steps towards full-fledged memory , and are universal properties of all organisms with nervous systems . |
| 22 | In December 1988 Blyth 's newly formed British Steel Challenge made the first steps towards prising open the closed shop of big boat ocean racing . |
| 23 | Although Braque had been responsible for taking the first steps towards a more abstract type of painting , his own use of the new procedure was much more cautious than Picasso 's . |
| 24 | They may be intended to help people to be more aware of their own interests and abilities with a view to taking the first steps towards any of these possibilities . |
| 25 | These represent the first steps towards AEA becoming an international business . |
| 26 | And tonight , three hours south in San Jos de Penuelas , the seasonal labourers who are talking by candlelight around a table seem to be taking the first steps towards the same kind of self-determination . |
| 27 | At that time — at least to start with — we could pick up some of those who had been the least successful in their school careers , often because they had turned their backs on the opportunities open to them , and provide the first steps towards training and employment . |
| 28 | The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in June 1992 will celebrate the first steps towards a comprehensive international framework of agreements allowing developed and undeveloped countries to control the impact of global environmental change . |
| 29 | Macedonia , which in January took the first steps towards independence [ see p. 38704 ] , faced hostility from Greece which felt that its name implied a territorial claim on the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 30 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |