Example sentences of "[prep] [be] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | He finds it difficult to cope after being at the top as a player through natural talent . |
| 2 | Instead of being at the top , they were being concentrated in middle management , where all the hard detailed work had to be done . |
| 3 | Professionals ' self-esteem had been founded upon being at the top of the manual wages pyramid . |
| 4 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 5 | In fact it is downright unfriendly and I was very pleased to be at the top . |
| 6 | To be the best in the world and to be at the top for a long time . |
| 7 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 8 | One of the Penge termini was to be at the top of Anerley Hill , by the Crystal Palace , then in use as a large exhibition centre , which it was hoped would attract much traffic to the trams . |
| 9 | If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list . |
| 10 | The answer is : those that happened to be at the top of Craig 's sub-parcel . |
| 11 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 12 | Any set of questions which allowed most people to be at the top , and only a few further down , would be rejected as useless , because it did n't ‘ discriminate ’ ( to use the pseudo-scientific jargon ) . |
| 13 | The national coach 's belief is that at the next meeting of the SFA 's International Committee the question of how club is currently strangling country has to be at the top of the agenda . |
| 14 | They tend to be at the top and then there 's sort of little bits and pieces go at the bottom . |
| 15 | well if any thing its more likely to be at the top of the pile , not the bottom |
| 16 | The apartment Ludovico took Constance to was at the top of an old palazzo in Via Santo Spirito , a dark street dominated by the cupola of Chiesa Santo Spirito , the vast Renaissance church at the end of the road . |
| 17 | Will he commend the Belfast office for being at the top of the league of all passport offices for getting passports out quickly for the people of Northern Ireland ? |