Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 2 | He says that ‘ surgery rather than an aspirin ’ was required , especially at the top of the company . |
| 3 | Only at the top of Silver Street , beyond an area in which Ottery 's weekly market was anciently held , does the town reveal its more distinctive self . |
| 4 | It would seem that American critics writing in the 1920s and 1930s constructed a specific category when analysing the work of O'Keefe , As Whitney Chadwick stated : ‘ hailed as the epitome of emancipated womanhood , she was accorded star status , but only at the top of a female class . |
| 5 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 6 | The final move is to tie all four loose ends together at the top of the head . |
| 7 | The six steel sheets were inserted into the two widest sides of the trench and bolted together at the top , forming a curved tunnel . |
| 8 | Following excavation for the underpass the piles were faced over their exposed height with a nominal 100 mm thick skin of in-situ facing concrete and tied together at the top by in-situ reinforced capping beams . |
| 9 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 10 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 11 | The First Division sees Clydebank and Airdrie still together at the top , with Dunfermline starting to make a charge , they 've climbed to fourth place . |
| 12 | The leather also still looks good , although I 've notices it wearing away at the top of the ankle seam . |
| 13 | And , with Norway roaring away at the top of England 's World Cup group , everyone has been able to see their quality . |
| 14 | Successive Foreign Secretaries , the ambassadorial input , the input of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and especially the input of those who beaver away at the top of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in dim Victorian rooms have made a tremendous contribution to the unique catalytic role which my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary mentioned . |
| 15 | Thus at the top and bottom of the scale all is well , be it at Sheffield , Wakefield or newly amalgamated Roundhay and Headingley , now in the shape of the new Leeds club — or , at the other end , such as Yorkshire Copper Works , Wath upon Dearne or Wetherby . |
| 16 | Although some of the West 's Arab partners have hinted that they might be able to live with this and that a settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue is no longer at the top of the Arab agenda , this is unlikely to hold true for long . |
| 17 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 18 | The closest people to us in terms of distance were the Thwaites , just at the top of our main pasture , in High Birk Hatt . |
| 19 | It was a school just at the top of the street , School . |
| 20 | The ability to give direction to people is necessary not just at the top of an organisation . |
| 21 | There are three donation boxes at the back of the church , just at the top of the steps . |
| 22 | Check that your own name , the name of your tutor , the title of the essay and the course are displayed clearly and prominently at the top of page one . |
| 23 | You ca n't exactly call it social climbing , because Jackie is , financially and in terms of celebrity , already at the top . |
| 24 | ( It is very difficult to make a mark in experimental physics these days unless you are already at the top ! ) |
| 25 | The answer to that was made plain to him with a stab of dread when he ventured to peer out of his embrasure , for the tall figure was already at the top of the staircase and advancing silently and at leisure along the stone corridor . |
| 26 | A company launched on the stock market almost exactly at the top of the market in the summer of 1987 — and which has gone steadily down ever since , as the graph illustrates . |
| 27 | As she stood uncertainly at the top of stairs leading down , she began to wonder how she was going to make herself heard above the noise . |
| 28 | That leaves Daley Thompson as the sole survivor of the British men 's team at the Montreal Olympics still at the top . |
| 29 | [ Joshua is one of the most respected names in the industry and at 54 years old is still at the top of his craft . ] |
| 30 | Awareness of this is high , but survival , not aggressiveness , is still at the top of the agenda . |