Example sentences of "a first [noun sg] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cordle was applauded as he demanded the abolition of standing charges for pensioners on gas , electricity and telephone bills as a first step towards helping them . |
| 2 | THE Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , denied in the Commons yesterday that his new NHS and Community Care Bill was a first step towards privatisation and accused his critics of trying to ‘ scare the life ’ out of patients . |
| 3 | The ecu link is a first step towards membership of the ERM . |
| 4 | The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system . |
| 5 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 6 | we have taken the lead in Europe in pressing for the establishment of a Europe-wide Drugs Unit , as a first step towards a creation of a ‘ Europol ’ ; |
| 7 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 8 | A first step towards the abolition of poverty could be taken by restoring the earnings link for the uprating of National Insurance pensions abandoned in 1980 and the re-establishment of full entitlements to the state earnings-related pension cut in 1988 . |
| 9 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 10 | Technology and Innovation is therefore to be welcomed as a first step towards changing this state of affairs . |
| 11 | Anarchists will welcome the steady sapping of the nation 's glue , as a first step towards the eventual crumbling of the state . |
| 12 | Opponents say the EEA is a first step towards full EC membership and the loss of Swiss independence . |
| 13 | By imposing a general tariff on foreign imports , Britain would be able to open negotiations with the White Dominions for a mutual removal of tariff barriers , drawing them into closer economic ties with the homeland as a first step towards final political federation of the Empire as a whole and the establishment of a supreme representative Imperial Parliament in London . |
| 14 | But it is a first step towards better value for defence dollars and D-marks . |
| 15 | Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners . |
| 16 | They saw municipal ownership and its efficient management as a means of improving public services and as a first step towards public ownership of the entire economy , and improved administration to prevent or cure social ills . |
| 17 | In this context the Liberal reforms were acceptable as a first step towards greater , Labour-controlled , changes in the future . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the abolition of the school boards was a first step towards reducing the number of overlapping , separately elected , local authorities which had emerged during the preceding seventy years ; and importantly , in the eyes of Balfour and Morant , it would diminish the independence of local education authorities and the consequent considerable variation in the quality of provision , and also reduce the denominational influence upon local education . |
| 19 | Hence in the Budget of 1907 he took only a first step towards graduation by introducing into the tax system different rates of tax for earned and unearned income . |
| 20 | Careful observation and recording of events are necessary as a first step towards diagnosing the problem . |
| 21 | There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self-contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest . |
| 22 | In particular , as a first step towards clearing the area , he was suggesting that , as Macmillan had advised , the Cossacks should be handed over to the Soviet authorities , although , as he had made clear to Tolbukhin 's HQ , he could not do this without Gen McCreery 's authorization . |
| 23 | While some unconscious biases — based , for instance , on which medical school or university people attended — may not be wholly eradicated , recognition of incipient biases would be a first step towards achieving real equal opportunities . |
| 24 | ‘ At the Special General Meeting held on Nov. 14th , the first resolution proposed by the committee as the outcome of the deliberations of the Commission on the Status of Lady Members , was accepted ; this restored ladies to the position which they occupied before November 9th 1910 , as a first step towards reconsideration of the question . |
| 25 | In his view it was high time ASEAN made a serious study of proclaiming Southeast Asia a nuclear-free zone as a first step towards implementing the zone concept . |
| 26 | Those who positively wanted a federalist solution would have seen it , from their point of view correctly , as a first step towards the ‘ necessary ’ acceptance of a Single Currency . |
| 27 | The University envisages the development of Inverness College in this way as a first step towards a University of the Highlands . |
| 28 | Will the Minister join me in welcoming the proposals put forward by the provisional liquidator and the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi as a first step towards a settlement of the problem ? |
| 29 | They could have accepted our offer of co-operation on a short Bill to return to the rating system as a first step towards a more general reform . |
| 30 | The hon. Member for Gordon said that a Scottish Parliament would be a first step towards independence . |