Example sentences of "[art] first step " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 2 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 3 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 4 | The first steps on the ice were amazing . |
| 5 | for 3rd arts south Celebrating the first steps of a maestro . |
| 6 | It has also now taken the first steps towards setting up a country-wide party . |
| 7 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 8 | ‘ We have already taken the first steps towards that goal . |
| 9 | Policies for the new century : the first steps 18 |
| 10 | The First Steps |
| 11 | The first steps out of the greenhouse |
| 12 | The first steps out of the greenhouse |
| 13 | A trust has now been able to acquire it and take the first steps towards long-term restoration . |
| 14 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 15 | In the process whereby a child comes to act in accordance with the rules and values of society , becoming eventually a reasonably self-controlled , inner-directed member of the community , one of the first steps is the development of self-restraint . |
| 16 | On the other hand , two other companies were equally adamant that browsing through a business library was one of the first steps needed to stimulate and promote ideas . |
| 17 | The parliamentary session closed on 29th July , without any further progress being made , but on 4th August , Hall and Hunt met Cornewall Lewis and Trevelyan to obtain the Government 's approval for a competition , and to seek the first steps towards acquiring the land . |
| 18 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 19 | The first steps in this direction were taken in Scotland where , for the first time in 1982/3 , individual authorities were targeted for ‘ excessive and unreasonable expenditure ’ in what was popularly called a ‘ hit-list ’ ( see Midwinter et al . , |
| 20 | The first steps were taken last week when an experiment to monitor ‘ machine-readable passports ’ ( MRPs ) was launched at Heathrow airport . |
| 21 | In the twelfth century the development of round ships was going on apace , and the first steps taken towards the mighty cogs of the late Middle Ages . |
| 22 | One of the first steps taken was to set up the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme ( EMEP ) to measure emissions and deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides in Europe . |
| 23 | In 1983 Dr Sven Kullander took the first steps by restricting the genus to South American species ; unfortunately until such time as further revisions are made this leaves the rest of the species in a sort of ‘ taxonomic limbo ’ . |
| 24 | By learning to listen , by switching our attention to our inner world , we take the first steps towards creating joy and success in our lives . |
| 25 | ‘ I found the first steps of the next pitch were very difficult , and the rock rather pushed one out . |
| 26 | The Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe ( Prosafe ) was also told that another 14 million are seriously injured as the first steps towards an Interpol-style consumer European protection agency were made yesterday . |
| 27 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 28 | One of the first steps will be to organise genetic counselling for all children not yet tested . |
| 29 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 30 | The ‘ Unification ’ of April 1937 , and the appointment in January 1938 of the first Nationalist cabinet , proved to be the first steps in the creation of the authoritarian regime which , following the Nationalist victory in 1939 , was to govern Spain for another 36 years . |