Example sentences of "[noun] at the top [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take it ti the last row of squares at the top and you will see that it is in row 38 . |
| 2 | We did a day walk up the Catlin 's river valley ; I dropped the others at the bottom , drove round via forest roads to the top with bike on board , left the car at the top and cycled back . |
| 3 | To cap it all , cable-car access from the other side would guarantee tea at the top and a tourist audience — what more was needed ? |
| 4 | The attitude of men — not just the middle-aged grey-suits at the top but increasingly of young grey-suits who put their career above that of their partners ' — came in for some stick . |
| 5 | Avoid width at the top but create volume at the chin — do not wear your hair shorter than chin level . |
| 6 | They will see thick black borders at the top and bottom of the screen , and almost certainly rebel . |
| 7 | Once in the field turn left , following the hedge through a gap at the top and make for a stone stile in the top right hand corner . |
| 8 | The draw cost Norwich crucial points in the championship race and assistant manager John Deehan said : ‘ It would have been nice to close that gap at the top because we now find ourselves a bit adrift . |
| 9 | ‘ Having wonderful schools at the top and so many poor schools — both primary and secondary — in which so many of our children are taught , is a big dilemma . ’ |
| 10 | Here , the shapely Am Bodach makes you ache to carry on , and although it looks sharp but simple , there is quite a vertigo-inducing section of easy scrambling at the top that may catch those without a head for heights unawares . |
| 11 | It has a gabled façade with wheel window at the top and two-light windows below . |
| 12 | Are there large gaps at the top and bottom of the doors ? |
| 13 | Breathe slowly from the stomach not the chest — breathing in to a count of four slowly and out to a count of four slowly , or visualize your breathing-in as going up one side of a hill , experiencing the plateau at the top and then breathing-out as though coming down the other side . |
| 14 | Before Antony Licata styled the alternative look , dashes of golden copper lights were added to the longer areas at the top and sides . |
| 15 | Liked to pull that down that 's a normal hip joint , this is your bony pelvis with the socket joint , right , socket , this is your leg bone the femur , with the head of the femur at the top and it looks like that and they fit into one another and it forms a very good swinging joint you can do all sorts of things with your hip joint , ca n't you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | PALplus will enable broadcasters to transmit improved quality pictures for wide-screen TVs , in a format which can also be received by standard PAL sets , and viewed with CinemaScope black bands at the top and bottom of the screen . |
| 18 | Put strong bolts at the top and bottom of all outside doors , the Mortice Security bolt is one of the best type available and can not be opened from the outside of the door . |
| 19 | Leave large margins at the top and bottom of pages , preferably separated by some device such as a rule to draw the eye into the page . |
| 20 | It was a narrow wooden cupboard with a shelf at the top and a rail below . |
| 21 | You can still use foam at the top and bottom . |
| 22 | Will I need room at the top and bottom of the stairs ? |
| 23 | But this one has no title at the top and it 's written in a completely different hand . |
| 24 | Ross has enjoyed the League matches and feels there is very little difference between teams at the top and bottom , as Saturday 's result shows . |
| 25 | Sinan ( Emir Hasan ) , who appears to have served continuously from 959/1552 to Shawwal 964/August 1557 and who had previously been kadi of Aleppo : It is worth noting that the kadiliks in the list are divided into two distinct grades — though if Hezarfen is right , they do not seem to correspond , at least in the way one would expect , to " 300- and 500-akce " kadiliks — and it is no$ impossible that the order as given above represents the order of precedence , with Istanbul at the top and Baghdad at the bottom . |
| 26 | Nail timber battens at the top and bottom of the wall , fix fabric lengths to the battens with a staple gun , then cover the staples with fabric binding . |
| 27 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
| 28 | Similarly , some industries ( newspapers , retailing , property ) seem to need dominant authoritarian managers at the top while there are others in which the sharing of power appears essential to get the work done ( publishing , consulting and some forms of manufacturing ) . |
| 29 | The evidence suggests that income differentials between households at the top and bottom of the income scale narrowed during the war years of 1939–45 and that , through the late 1940s , the poorest households found basic necessities increasingly affordable . |
| 30 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |