Example sentences of "to make the top [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he fails to make the top nine in the European money list , he would accept , if offered , one of the three wild card places by Bernard Gallacher , the non-playing captain . |
| 2 | In his bid to make the top eight and earn Iron some cash from the Beazer Homes kitty , he keeps faith with the squad that outplayed Witney last week after Glenn Russell 's dismissal , but still lost 3–1 . |
| 3 | Two home defeats have dented Boro 's hopes of automatic promotion , and Lawrence said : ‘ Failure to get three points against Oxford would make it almost impossible to make the top two . |
| 4 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 5 | He got up and down with a pitch to a yard , and holed from ten feet at the fifteenth and eighteenth to make the top 20 . |
| 6 | I think I 'm improving and hope to make the top 50 , or even top 20 . |
| 7 | To make the top rectangular picture , I used a card mount in palest pink , behind which I stretched some cream silk . |
| 8 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |