Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | And red lead it and then used to be off the top of the jib . |
| 2 | The flow connection will be towards the top of the cylinder and the return connection towards the bottom . |
| 3 | Sir : Increasing the recycling of plastics ought to be near the top of Britain 's environmental priorities , as your article ‘ The search to escape a plastic nightmare ’ ( 27 September ) suggests . |
| 4 | But when the two scholars had gone up to ( Oxford , ‘ I began to be near the top of the form … but still everything at school was an aimless task performed to the letter only . |
| 5 | It was important to pass the examination — and not only that , but to be near the top of the list in order to be assured of getting through the door of the right secondary school . |
| 6 | But with a little practice you can be near the top of the scale . |
| 7 | to his consternation , his school to be near the top of an LEA vandalism league . |
| 8 | One album that is sure to bridge the generation gap and be near the top of the charts by the time Santa hitches up his sleigh to Rudolph and friends is 25 Years — The Chain ( WEA ) , an anthology covering the career of Fleetwood Mac . |
| 9 | ‘ If Leeds played like that more often they 'd be near the top , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Notice that , by chance , the N plots tend to be near the top ( ? dry ) end of the field and the K plots are towards the bottom ( ? wet ) end so that we can not be sure that any observed yield difference between N and K is not due to the moisture differential or to natural soil nutrients being washed by rain towards the low end of the field , etc . |
| 11 | At £12,260 the Aura TD is not particularly cheap but it would certainly be near the top of my shopping list if I was looking for a medium-sized diesel hatchback . |
| 12 | Whilst the natural flow of the design development must be from the top to bottom of Figure I.l , due to the iterative nature of design no truly sequential relationships can be inferred from their order . |
| 13 | After you have spelt each word that very card will be on the top and you take it out and place it aside . |
| 14 | We ought to be on the top — on the top and in the open . " |
| 15 | Over one last rise , and they were driving across a grassy boulder-strewn plateau which seemed to be on the top of the world . |
| 16 | ‘ Like the HBF we believe that the Government should target key sectors that can lead the economy out of recession and the housing market should be on the top of the list . ’ |
| 17 | It might be on the top |
| 18 | the potato will be on the top anyway so that wo n't matter will it ? |
| 19 | In two or three years Luis , Patricio and Lorenzo would be catching up with Miguel 's cousins , and by this time Miguel , who drank and ate too much , might well be over the top . |
| 20 | Dandelion would be over the top and back almost as fast as a hare . |
| 21 | The man who at one stage was thought to be among the top half dozen money earners in the world was born on November 10th , 1925 at 2 Dan-y-Bont , Pontrhydyfen . |
| 22 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 23 | In fact it is downright unfriendly and I was very pleased to be at the top . |
| 24 | Some of the other letters in the box ( the typed ones ) were much less elegant , and seemed to have come from strangers ; they contained advice of a different sort , instructions about where to get sex and how much to pay for it if necessary , often these were just plain filth like I 'd like to do this to you and then I 'd like to do that to you , be at the top of the park in your grey school trousers and I 'll show you what a real man can do for you . |
| 25 | When I write my diary for the year my starter course at the Fermette Marboeuf will be at the top of my list of outstanding dishes . |
| 26 | To be the best in the world and to be at the top for a long time . |
| 27 | And if the controls were to be positioned as on the 650 , the volumes , not the tones , should really be at the top . |
| 28 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 29 | One of the Penge termini was to be at the top of Anerley Hill , by the Crystal Palace , then in use as a large exhibition centre , which it was hoped would attract much traffic to the trams . |
| 30 | A person of ‘ quality ’ — such as a member of the landed gentry or the clergy — would be at the top of their scale , commanding a funeral similar to that organized by the College of Arms for a knight bachelor , with paupers and wayfarers coming in at the bottom . |