Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a first step " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context the Liberal reforms were acceptable as a first step towards greater , Labour-controlled , changes in the future . |
| 2 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Careful observation and recording of events are necessary as a first step towards diagnosing the problem . |