Example sentences of "[adv] take the [adj] step " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last weekend , however , after rioters looted and burned and smashed , and the army was compelled to escort Banda 's heir apparent , John Tembo , to safety , the Malawi News not only took the extraordinary step of giving a graphic account of the riots , complete with quarter-page photographs , but also accorded Chihana 's court case detailed front-page coverage . |
| 2 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 3 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 4 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson yesterday took the unusual step of revealing the exact cause of Sharpe 's problem to try to end months of speculation about the one-time wonder boy . |
| 5 | THE Government yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing more confidential correspondence between Lord Young and British Aerospace , revealing new details of secret tax breaks and private concessions given by ministers over the Rover deal . |
| 6 | The RFU should also take the overdue step of encouraging the development of the game in state schools by paying teachers for the time they spend coaching . |
| 7 | Mr Kinnock also took the unusual step of appealing to all electors , whatever their political persuasion , to turn out and vote . |
| 8 | He also took the unusual step of appealing to all electors whatever their political persuasion to turn out and vote , a move that reflected unease among the party leadership that , with the polls showing a narrow Labour lead , its supporters might take victory for granted . |
| 9 | The International Chamber of Commerce also took the unusual step of allowing the FBL to use the ICC logo . |
| 10 | It reorganised itself in 1854 , and took an office in Regent Street , and a year later took the important step of appointing as lay-missioner a Samuel Smith , a teacher at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 11 | MacLean later took the unusual step of amending his original statement to parliament , describing BNFL 's failure to inform Cunningham of the leak as " a rather extraordinary discourtesy " . |
| 12 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
| 14 | In 1980 the protesters even took the daring step of erecting a scaffolding tower across the path of the train carrying waste barrels on their way to the docks . |
| 15 | Imminence : of course he saw it before the impulse had even taken the first step on its journey from her mind to her body . |
| 16 | SURGEONS at Harefield Hospital near London have secretly taken the first step toward implanting Britain 's first artificial heart . |
| 17 | A group of Hartlepool women have successfully taken the first step towards a career in creche work . |
| 18 | She has thereby taken the first step towards adult sexuality in developing a wish for a baby . |
| 19 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 20 | The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ . |
| 21 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 22 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |