Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] top [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of voters who cited social issues as their top priority ‘ or who claimed such issues were ‘ extremely important ’ to their voting decision , hardly varied at all throughout the campaign . |
| 2 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
| 3 | And to what extent will top management have to accept as its top priority making and maintaining a common vision across professional specialties ? |
| 4 | This sale of modern paintings will have as its top lot Chagall 's ‘ Self portrait with flowers ’ , 1969-70 , with the estimate of £200–300,000 ( $350–530,000 ) , and will also put on offer Modigliani 's drawing of circa 1914 ‘ Caryatide ’ ( charcoal on paper laid down on canvas , 71.5x49cm , est. £70–90,000 ; $125–160,000 ) . |
| 5 | For once we had height advantage , possibly only 300 or 400 feet , but sufficient , I believe , for their top mainplanes to conceal us from their pilots ’ sight . |
| 6 | Management development within British Rail has been built around a leadership programme for their top managers . |
| 7 | The oldest of all the Grandes Marques , Ruinart are renowned for their top cuvée " Dom Ruinart " . |
| 8 | ‘ Although , in fact , a lot of my top sales people are women ; especially on the telephone-selling side . |
| 9 | ‘ Since then I 've had another report from one of my top security agents . ’ |
| 10 | The pitch , without a blade of grass on it , looked such a good one for batting that the West Indies clearly felt that seven batsmen , even given the recent fallibility of their top order , were unnecessary . |
| 11 | However , Lithuania are n't going to be as dangerous as they might have been as several of their top stars did n't make the trip . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a sad fact that Celtic have taken advantage of their top players , ’ he claimed , in his ghost-written biography , ‘ The kind of players who have supported Celtic and been really loyal to the club have been the ones who have suffered the most . ’ |
| 13 | Two had been voted out of their top party positions by their district branches and the other two stepped down after pressure from the Central Committee . |
| 14 | What hope have Western Samoa got of developing that if a conveyor belt of their top talent is forever being diverted into All Black hands ? |
| 15 | But he 's one of their top men . |
| 16 | The Faunus Kennel has dominated the Swedish scene over the last few years , one of their top winners being Faunus Bullit . |
| 17 | In the U.K. , for example , four fifths of health service employees are women but over 90% of its top decision makers are men . |
| 18 | The uniformity of its top executives is the crucial case in point . |
| 19 | FOOD group Hillsdown has announced a restructuring of its top management which sees Charles Bowen taking over the helm at Maple Leaf Foods , Hillsdown 's largest subsidiary and the largest food manufacturer in Canada . |
| 20 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 21 | League does not have enough good amateurs to feed its professional ranks and few of its top professionals continue in amateur league when their careers end . |
| 22 | The scheme , which is not popular with some of the group 's investors , includes tying in 40 of its top managers with the promise of an equity stake in the business . |
| 23 | The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts , Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth . |
| 24 | A thriving plants depends as much on root vitality as on the good health of its top growth . |
| 25 | However , they made little impact until in the mid-1960s the Milk Marketing Board began to notice that many of its top AI dairy bulls seemed to have plenty of Canadian blood in them . |
| 26 | Sore losses were inflicted upon the French ; in the Cigognes alone its commander , Captain Brocard , Guynemer and several more of its top pilots had been rendered temporarily hors de combat . |
| 27 | The Picador 21st Birthday Book which could be very good indeed since it has asked 21 of its top authors to write an original personal memoir on an important year . |
| 28 | Harvard dealers who had left knew better than to say where to , since the walk out of its top dealers to London & Norwich Investment Services Ltd in May 1987 . |
| 29 | Other reasons may include an organisation 's need to have some of its top employees heading up the management team of foreign subsidiaries , that is , to maintain an international presence , or employees on their way up the career ladder may be posted overseas as part of the management development process . |
| 30 | As expected ( UX No 433 ) , NCR Corp will next week release version 2.0 of its Top End on-line transaction processing monitor . |