preliminary step

I suggest you to do a little investigation into the market as a preliminary step.

Our suggestion to you, as a preliminary step, is to DO a little research in the market.

There is a sort of preliminary step, which lies at the threshold of the university.

It has also requested consultations on the duties imposed on Chinese-made tyres, a preliminary step towards a WTO complaint.

Sometimes the preliminary step must be taken of reducing weed population before fertilizing .

As a preliminary step, some criteria for such an evaluation are proposed.

The Kenyan woman is now studying English and IT at college as a preliminary step to becoming a carer.

The 238-year old feudal monarchy has been marginalized, a preliminary step towards laying the foundations for a democratic republic.

The decision marks a preliminary step in what could become a larger, full-blown criminal probe.

For Chinese Part-Of-Speech(POS) tagging, word segmentation is a preliminary step.

The awakening of star seeds is a preliminary step toward major changes in world affairs .

Even as a preliminary step, though, the new map is clearly useful.

But privately he may think that, as a preliminary step, negotiating new borders would be more productive.

You are on the cusp of an important but preliminary step on that path of evolution.

The unmanned 8. 5-tonne module will test various space operations as a preliminary step towards building a space station by 2020.

Perhaps the most important preliminary step in sermon preparation is the development of a basic outline.