Example sentences of "place [noun] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 2 | In a world in which voters place health at the top of their concerns , the UK is still only spending just over 6% compared with 7% plus by Belgium , Finland , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , New Zealand , Norway , and Switzerland ; 8% plus by Australia , Austria , France , Germany , Iceland , Netherlands , and Sweden ; 9% plus by Canada ; and dear old USA on its own in the stratosphere with 12% plus . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State argues that to allow what my Bill proposes would be to place Scotland at the top of a slippery slope , but his attitude has the effect of placing Scotland at the edge of a cliff . |
| 4 | Both parties claim to place education at the top of their agenda . |
| 5 | The Group 's largest and longest established operation is in oil-rich Kuwait , a small but strategically placed country at the top of what used to be known as the Persian gulf — now politically just referred to as the gulf . |