Example sentences of "[det] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you know your height and weight , write this at the top . |
| 2 | But as I said in a speech recently , we have a lot further to go , more progress to make and that is very much at the top of my agenda of , the agenda of my right honourable friend the education minister . |
| 3 | she said Joe would of got them all at the top where you could n't see them and things like that , I said well you wo n't get builders doing that |
| 4 | Mr Coates appears to have carried the can for a strategy that had the enthusiasm of some of those at the top of Barclays Bank , as well as of David Band , BZW 's chief executive , and of Sir Martin , who is also a deputy chairman of the parent bank . |
| 5 | The government secrecy sometimes extended to the people on the plant — the need to know was not always appreciated by those at the top — and the most serious accident was caused by a poorly conceived process change determined by another team . |
| 6 | Thus , those at the top , or on their way , naturally head for jobs where they can challenge assumptions , old and new . |
| 7 | Sun Life Assurance has 10 different levels of disturbance allowance which range from £660 for those in the lowest grade to £1715 for those at the top . |
| 8 | Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top . |
| 9 | Even after adjustment the differences between those at the top and those at the bottom remained substantial : among men , those in grade 6 had 3.7 and 6.4 times higher rates of sickness absence than those in grade 1 for short and long spells respectively . |
| 10 | Very frequently people closer to today 's marketplace than to the board are more realistic about the possibilities for their business than those at the top . |
| 11 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 12 | Those at the top , on or near the board of directors , may exercise strategic control over investment and planning of markets and products . |
| 13 | There are fewer status differentiations between organisation members and more opportunities for people at the bottom to influence those at the top . |
| 14 | The third part of Mrs Thatcher 's strategy of creating an enterprise culture , which massively rewards those at the top while penalizing those at the bottom of the income pile , has been the launching of a series of reforms of the welfare state . |
| 15 | At the same time , the reward system reflects this new approach : profit sharing , gain sharing , and performance bonuses all demonstrate that the success of the company comes from the broadest contribution of all the company 's employees , not just those at the top . |
| 16 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 17 | Thus , if an official lower down the organisation can influence those at the top to move in a certain direction then we could designate that person a leader . |
| 18 | Traditionally , we have perceived leadership as belonging to those at the top of organisations and have described others within the organisation as followers , subordinates or the led . |
| 19 | Such visions can be utilised at all levels within an organisation and are not the sole prerogative of those at the top . |
| 20 | Strategic planning involves those at the top of the organisation formulating the organisation 's objectives and developing strategies to achieve those objectives . |
| 21 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 22 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 23 | Given the huge disparities which are of such enormous benefit to those at the top of the scale , who will pick up the bill ? |
| 24 | Working people , especially those at the top of the range , would have to understand that they would be paying more . |
| 25 | But this is a result of those at the top of the hierarchy maintaining their status amongst their subordinates . |
| 26 | He emphasised the need for standards to be set by those at the top of organisations . |
| 27 | Therefore those at the top of the pile have no first hand knowledge of the cause of a failure virus , while the employees who understand the failure have no power to change the process which caused it . |
| 28 | But growing American unease over Britain 's plight was still neutralized by the determination of most of those at the top to try to prevent devaluation or the end of the role East of Suez . |
| 29 | if they 're keeping the politicians happy by keep the trou civilianising troops from the ground nobody looks at those at the top |
| 30 | Now one one of those at the top of the street where er where the er is , you can say virtually th about one one lamp in the street . |