Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospects : Unlikely , as its implications and perils understood ; and , of the four strategies , it would demand the greatest unity at the top . |
| 2 | I 've taken the bedroom on the right-hand side at the top of the stairs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is a ‘ classic ’ one , with the strongest male at the top , for ordinary social situations . |
| 5 | To check this look at the top of the axle and , as someone moves the vehicle forward , watch to see if the axle top moves forward slightly . |
| 6 | He may have been inspired by the fact that the choristers of Magdalen College , Oxford , sing a Latin hymn at the top of the tower there to greet May Day . |
| 7 | This event seems to be less frequent after the use of stapled anastomosis at the top of the anal column ( 8% compared with sutured ileoanal anastomosis 22% ) . |
| 8 | Residents have expressed fears about the move by Surrey County Council after a notice appeared on a wooden pole at the top of Farnham Lane with a map showing the changes affecting three rights of way in Haslemere and one in Chiddingfold . |
| 9 | Just drill a hole in the middle of the lid large enough to take a 15mm 90 degree plastic elbow , to which the pipe is then fitted with another elbow at the top . |
| 10 | Several historic buildings around this area at the top of the High Street have been restored in recent years as student residences . |
| 11 | I was like a man in the street who was trying to talk to another man at the top of a very tall building . |
| 12 | It only goes to show that compared to the mid-80s , when there was just Eddie Hemmings and I battling for an England place , there is now much tougher competition at the top . |
| 13 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 14 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 15 | There 's maybe a little sixteenth note at the top of five or six ledger lines and the text says ‘ feedback ’ — like I really need to know that ! |
| 16 | One method has been the use of graded materials that reverse the normal sequence and give coarse material at the top and fine at the bottom . |
| 17 | For solar flares there is evidence that magnetic reconnection at the tops of loops is often involved in supplying energy particularly for larger structures ( , Tokyo University ) . |
| 18 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 19 | They should have had erm you know , yo yo , there 's another , there 's another erm like another office at the top of us stay |
| 20 | Begin each question at the top of a question at the top of a page in the answer book . |
| 21 | Wee bit at the top of the mast of the trawler . |
| 22 | Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero . |
| 23 | Because of the limited visibility at the top of the hill a new access directly from Drum Brae Park on to Drum Brae could not be recommended . |
| 24 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 25 | The room , possibly used as a chancery by the duke , was dominated by a long table with chairs down either side and a high-backed , throne-like seat at the top . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And it had lots of tiny writing at the top in some alien alphabet . |
| 28 | His body is slender , lean , brown , his prick a mere button at the top of his thighs . |
| 29 | The sight of the rather forlorn youth sitting on the uncomfortable bed at the top of a vast , almost empty building touched his heart . |
| 30 | The three anchors are the scorpion from Figure 5 , the insect again ( we have yet another " rotation about " the insect ) , and the rather nondescript biomorph at the top . |