11.   An accurate description of the problem is the first step in solving it.

12.   Around the country, the first tentative steps have been taken toward this new alliance.

13.   As a first step pensions and child benefit were to be raised and long-term supplementary benefit extended to the long-term unemployed.

14.   As a first step toward cutting costs, Helen volunteered to go to work in the chicken palace, as the cashier.

15.   As a first step, complete the application form in the booklet and return it to us.

16.   As a first step, it is requesting permission to publish a national magazine which would be distributed by the State.

17.   As a first step, sherds of known origin from the two centres were analysed.

18.   But as I take my very first step on to the ground she becomes a very different animal.

19.   But it is a first step towards better value for defence dollars and D-Marks.