Example sentences of "step [prep] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a short step from here to the so-called ‘ New Pop ’ of Duran Duran , Wham ! and Culture Club , with ABC standing by as a rather aloof and better-dressed alternative . |
| 2 | It is not a big step from here to the symbolic use of signals . |
| 3 | It is a short step from here to the dramatic parallelism associated with a masterly speech maker . |
| 4 | It is also a short step from here to the rhetorical balance of the fourfold repetition of the ‘ In such a night ’ speech in the Merchant of Venice ( V.i . ) . |
| 5 | It was but a short step from there to the deduction that the woman was the one they had been ordered to look out for , and the guard shouldered the door aside , bounding inwards . |