Example sentences of "the first step [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for 3rd arts south Celebrating the first steps of a maestro . |
| 2 | His country may be taking the first steps to a market economy , but on the streets there are remarkably few cars . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Liverpool City Council are planning to start a tournament in the winter which could be the first step of a journey up the British rankings right up to a match against number one players Jeremy Bates and Joe Durie . |
| 5 | The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) withdrew its 39 delegates indefinitely from the 92-member National Assembly on June 18 , protesting over a " reactionary initiative " to remove two 1990 laws on land redistribution and describing it as the first step of a plan to destroy the achievements of the 1979 revolution . |
| 6 | THE FIRST step of a plan to transform the former Ravenscraig steel complex in Lanarkshire was taken yesterday . |
| 7 | The normal form will characterise the first step of a process ' behaviour using the highest levels of syntax , and rely on inner levels to deal with subsequent steps . |
| 8 | The Gulf war and its attendant debate over the dispatching of Japanese troops overseas also affected Japan 's relationship with its Asian neighbours , many of whom expressed fears that such a development might be the first step towards a resurgence of military power commensurate with the country 's huge economic strength . |
| 9 | Its supporters claim that the first would be the first step towards a test reactor that would burn plasma for long periods . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the purpose of the operation was completely transformed by Bush 's decision to double the number of troops , which was clearly the first step towards a war this year . |
| 12 | The sultan suspected that Karadjordje 's demand that Serbia should be accorded a status similar to that of the other semi-autonomous tributary provinces within the Ottoman empire — Wallachia , for example — was but the first step towards a declaration of complete independence . |
| 13 | A group of Hartlepool women have successfully taken the first step towards a career in creche work . |
| 14 | For Link project manager Mr Ken Lee , it is the first step in a scheme which he hopes will soon cover 600 Darlington companies and generate £2m . |
| 15 | Young men who take clerical work as the first step in a management career can be considered middle class . |
| 16 | Endothelial adhesion by leucocytes is also the first step in a range of adhesive interactions required in their tissue invasive response to inflammation . |
| 17 | Keegan has paid up the contracts of Billy Askew , David Keavney , Archie Gourlay , David Robinson and Anth Cole as the first step in a Geordie clear-out . |
| 18 | President Robert Mugabe announced on April 30th that the government is to buy 70 big commercial farms , covering 190,000 hectares , as the first step in a plan to redistribute some 5m hectares of white-owned land to blacks . |
| 19 | The borough council 's environmental charter is the first step in a programme to improve the town for residents , visitors and wildlife . |
| 20 | Labour council leader John Williams said the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate and High Row was long overdue and just the first step in a town improvement strategy . |
| 21 | The first step in a sequence of events would be the passing of Amendment 27 to demonstrate a parliamentary majority for the social dimension . |
| 22 | The Time Warner AxS arm of Time Warner Inc has bought a 50% stake in MetroComm Inc , builder and operator of a fibre optic competitive telephone access network in Columbus , Ohio on undisclosed terms ; the company will be known as MetroComm AxS and the alliance the first step in a Time Warner programme to enter the long-distance access business . |
| 23 | Coun. Williams said the scheme , which bans traffic from High Row , Skinnergate , Bondgate and Blackwellgate between 10.30 and 4pm , was just the first step in a review of the whole town centre . |
| 24 | 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 . |