Example sentences of "to take the [adj] step " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she was able to take the mental step that brought her out into the light again . |
| 2 | At his subsequent trial , Charles Woolridge was to take the contradictory step of pleading not guilty , but the outcome was a foregone conclusion ; he was unanimously convicted . |
| 3 | Directors who ought to have realized that insolvent liquidation was inevitable , but who failed to take the necessary step to minimize the potential loss to creditors . |
| 4 | For four weeks I let it lie on my desk , unwilling to take the final step . |
| 5 | ‘ We have to go to New Zealand with the objective of coming back with half a dozen players who will be able to take the final step up next season ’ — JOHN ELLIOTT ( national selector ) on the ‘ B ’ tour . |
| 6 | But Sebastian had not seemed eager to take the final step . |
| 7 | ‘ The sheriff was reluctant to take the final step of formally attributing assault to a caring father who had a moment of aberration when he was driven to distraction by a situation with which he was unable to cope . |
| 8 | Failure to take the right step at the right time leads to deception or inadequacy . |
| 9 | Bentham was willing , however , on the basis of his version of the command theory of law to take the heroic step of denying that the common law was law . |
| 10 | Leonard had tried to get Elizabeth , his London girlfriend , to take the bold step of departure to Greece , but she had refused . |
| 11 | Therefore Schaffner was forced to take the unusual step of shooting it mostly in sequence , getting on with what had already been written . |
| 12 | The situation has prompted the prison governor to take the unusual step of refusing to accept any more remand prisoners . |
| 13 | So I suppose the only answer is to take the unusual step of inviting you back tomorrow , and I hope we can continue the conversation tomorrow . |