Example sentences of "[art] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 2 | Difficulties can be many , at the top of the list being the number of items to be catalogued . |
| 3 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
| 4 | Besides , there 's only one for the top of the class . |
| 5 | Those nearer the top , particularly in the Black Preceptory , the inner sanctum of the society structure , are there because of their moral and religious standing in the local community : wealthy farmers , businessmen , good churchmen , or at least of known moral probity . |
| 6 | A mash tun showing the sparging arms at the top and the slotted base |
| 7 | Top left , projected plan , showing additional areas to the top and right ; right , the projected frontage to Fleet Street ( Waterhouse Ripley Adie Button ) ; bottom left , the old front to Wine Office Court in February 1991 ( Steven Parissien ) . |
| 8 | The top and sides are sprinkled with toasted nuts and sesame seeds and it is finished with orange jelly slices and raspberry jam . |
| 9 | But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly . |
| 10 | Mrs Doran 's was a Victoria sponge with toasted almonds and walnut halves carefully arranged on the top . |
| 11 | Mrs Venables ' cake was — as she had said — a perfect coffee gâteau , smoothly frosted in caramel , with three cherries on the top . |
| 12 | His bleary eyes filled with tears but he tilted his head back and glared at the top of the tent . |
| 13 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 14 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 15 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 16 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 17 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |
| 18 | I read it through , then crossed out where she had written ‘ Miss ’ at the top and wrote ‘ Dr ’ instead . |
| 19 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 20 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 21 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 22 | When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily . |
| 23 | An alternative is to put the planted-up bowls in black polythene sacks ties at the top and keep them in a cold greenhouse or cool , frost-free outhouse , garage or shed . |
| 24 | If you feel like going completely over the top , why not grow some rhubarb chard near your gaudy cabbages ? |
| 25 | If you cut them back when they reach a manageable height they 'll retain their shape but will sprout a forest of shoots at the top . |
| 26 | The beans have now reached the top of their 6ft canes and I 'm praying that any autumn gales will be delayed until the beans are all safely harvested . |
| 27 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 28 | From their first-floor sitting room the Lloyds have a new perspective on the garden , the pool and the top of their pergola ! |
| 29 | Drill a small hole at the top to screw the potholder firmly into position . |
| 30 | Cutting should be about 9in long , cut just below a leaf joint at the bottom , and just above a leaf joint at the top . |