Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the [adj] step " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 2 | VINNY JONES went back to Wimbledon yesterday and declared : ‘ I 've taken the first step on the managerial ladder . ’ |
| 3 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 4 | Once you have made the first step towards finding out more about archaeology , it is likely that you will never turn back . |
| 5 | And we now have got the first step er sorry not , not strictly speaking , the first steps of course were economic th that we had a strategic embargo and an economic embargo er on er on the Serbs and er on , on the er the , the different regions er th the first military step however is air strikes and we 'll know er within a week I think whether in fact this step will be actually taken or whether the threat is sufficient to induce er the belligerents to come to a negotiated settlement . |
| 6 | The Canadian courts have taken the first step , by accepting that the media has a qualified privilege to publish information ( which later turns out to be false ) about a possible public health hazard . |
| 7 | They have taken the innovative step of basing their enantioselective sensor on a modified cyclodextrin . |
| 8 | More than 18 months later the firms have taken the exceptional step of issuing a joint statement of position . |
| 9 | As we 've just heard in the headlines Nottinghamshire police have taken the unusual step of releasing a recording of a girl they believe has made at least a dozen calls claiming she 's given birth . |
| 10 | Police have taken the unusual step of naming and releasing the photograph of a man they wish to question in connection with an alleged double rape of a teenager . |
| 11 | SCOTLAND 's international selectors have taken the unusual step of leaving a vacancy in their team for the World Championships in Gothenburg in May , until after the Scottish national championships and the Top 12 tournament next month . |
| 12 | Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect . |
| 13 | Social Services have taken the unprecedented step of writing to the young victims ' parents warning them of Alan Stout 's impending release.Adrian Britton reports . |
| 14 | WEN have taken the important step in their book too by outlining the basics of organic chemistry . |