Example sentences of "was the first step [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 2 | Some believed his claim that the invasion of Kuwait was the first step towards the liberation of Palestine , and/or a blow in favour of the Arab poor ( of which the Maghreb has its share ) . |
| 3 | A report spread that it was the first step towards establishing a joint all-Ireland police force with the Irish Republic . |
| 4 | If , in the Victorian novel , a disproportionate number of working-class interiors are attractive , it is partly because the theorists of infection were all agreed that cleanliness was the first step towards prevention . |
| 5 | Other groups , like the Boys ' League of Honour and the Church Lads ' Brigade , addressed the leisure activities of working-class boys , setting up night schools and organizing sport and mutual improvement societies to counter the idleness which was the first step towards dissipation and self-abuse . |
| 6 | According to some reports the policy was the first step towards making the currency convertible . |
| 7 | Resolving the species/variation question in this way was the first step towards introducing the world to the theory of evolution . |
| 8 | This was the first step towards the creation of one of the most significant and controversial of Anglo-American connections during the Cold War . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , a single lapse in this mother 's policy was the first step on the slippery slope of interrupted nights . |
| 10 | Most founders and managers felt that discipline was the first step on the road to all kinds of mental , moral , and physical improvement . |
| 11 | It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College . |
| 12 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 13 | That call , made from a windy public phone box on one of the most north-westerly islands in Europe , was the first step along the twisting path which lead directly to the heart of the British monarchy . |
| 14 | For some , it was the first step outside the embassy grounds for three months . |
| 15 | My new friend was the first step in questioning whether that was true . |
| 16 | Yolande de Dreux was the first step in sealing a new alliance with France . ’ |
| 17 | Amalgamation between Stratford and Edmonton , therefore , was the first step in a protracted and complex process . |
| 18 | It was the first step in the emotional detachment that would dominate her relations with her mother for the rest of her life . |
| 19 | Her move three miles up river to Old Town was the first step in a gradual journey into the district of Okoyong and away from European settlement on the coast . |
| 20 | The opening of the stock exchange was the first step in the privatization programme announced by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on May 22 ; shortly afterwards , on June 29 , the government detailed further plans to take effect in August , starting with bankruptcy proceedings against about 30 large state entities , the decentralization and splitting up of another 600 companies and the privatization of some 40,000 small service concerns , subsequently adding plans to create private farm holdings . |
| 21 | Under the terms of the accord , the referendum was the first step in a process of transition which would lead to the establishment of the semi-autonomous Nunavut government and territory by April 1999 . |