Example sentences of "the last step " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 2 | She paused ( on the last step but one , to make quite sure of her superiority ) and loomed over them , candle and nostrils flaring . |
| 3 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 4 | He turned an enquiring gaze upon her as she marched towards the house , but before following her he held out his hands to Millie as she went to jump off the last step , saying now in a low tone , ‘ It looks a good enough day ’ — he pointed to the back of the cart — ‘ what 's up ? ’ |
| 5 | In Eastern Europe , economic integration is the last step in a process of political extinction which all take seriously and which most dread . |
| 6 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 7 | " We will discuss it later , " Katherine said absently , stopping on the last step , her eyes sweeping along the broad expanse of highly polished hallway , automatically checking the corners , beneath the lacquered Chinese table , around the edges of the mirror , and finally the glass on the print and picture frames . |
| 8 | Note that unc and unc can not both be zero , or A would be singular and R would not exist ; similarly for unc We choose a nonzero element from these four -say unc and then unc The last step is not arbitrary : we must exclude the first three rows ( containing units ) , so that the only choice for pivot in the next step is D44 , which can not be zero . |
| 9 | Note that , in the rearrangement of the last step , we crossed three rows in bringing unc to the top ; then the new second row unc crossed two rows in going to the bottom . |
| 10 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 11 | The last step in the reasoning is stated in terms which are unnecessarily wide for the facts of this case and , as I shall indicate later , unnecessarily wide in principle . |
| 12 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 13 | But I 'll go the last step of the way , and ask the last man . ’ |
| 14 | When we discussed replication as a moulding process , we saw that the last step in the process must be the new copy 's breaking free of the old mould . |
| 15 | At sight of her Gus , stiffening into startled consciousness between his supporters , set foot of his own volition on the last step , and his soiled eyebrows soared into his muddy hair , in reflection of the apparition before him . |
| 16 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 17 | I laugh and push him up the last step . |
| 18 | One possible solution is for the last step in the procedure to be the subject of a strict time limit . |
| 19 | As she reached the last step Travis appeared through a door to her left . |