Example sentences of "took [adj] [adj] step " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to cast the thought from her , but it stayed stubbornly with her as he took another small step towards her . |
| 2 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
| 3 | Daak took another painful step . |
| 4 | SUDBURY took another giant step towards winning Courage League National Division Four South after a heart-warming performance at Basingstoke on Saturday . |
| 5 | The image of Zuwaya past was of a society in which people resisted the temptation to submit to authority , either internal or external , and in which they took some positive steps to secure that freedom . |
| 6 | And any director or the secretary of the company is similarly liable unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to avoid the commission or continuance of the offence . |
| 7 | If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval . |
| 8 | Any person charged with an offence under the section has a defence if he can prove that he took all reasonable steps for securing that the accounts were delivered in time . |
| 9 | The defence is that the defendant took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 10 | In addition to the defences above , it is a defence for anyone charged under the Consumer Protection Act to show that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 11 | In this respect s39 states : ( 1 ) Subject to the following provisions of this section , in proceedings against any person for an offence to which this section applies it shall be a defence for that person to show that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence . |
| 12 | Under that Rule , the party confirming that the resources are available will not be expected to produce the cash itself provided , in giving the confirmation , it acted responsibly and took all reasonable steps to assure itself that the cash was available . |
| 13 | The only defence is that the estate agent took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence . |
| 14 | IEA developed contingency plans ; some Western states , concerned lest the crisis widen , took precautionary military steps ; and certain Arab states also took steps . |
| 15 | There was no mistaking the menace in his demeanour as he advanced towards her , and Fran took several hasty steps backwards before coming to an abrupt halt against the wall . |
| 16 | One of the Warlords took several thudding steps forward . |
| 17 | Polygnotos , it is clear from Pausanias 's description , took two important steps which allowed him to express the classical spirit without the constrictions of the archaic tradition . |
| 18 | He simply moved out from between the cars as if he was going to walk off and Maggie took two aggressive steps forward . |