Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Based on O'Connor & Arnold 1961. ) heading The word or words at the top of a section of printed matter . |
| 2 | Progress is governed partly by disciplinary expansion or contraction , but partly also by internal professional rhythms , like length of training , and attrition , or death at the top . |
| 3 | People abandoned hope that things would get better , fearing simply that change at the top would mean change at the bottom — for the worse . |
| 4 | Perhaps erm pressure coming from local communities and ordinary people , rather than theologians at the top , and pressure released in order to allow for greater freedom , variety , flexibility , more open approach to other Christians and other religions , and to try to get rid of some of the obstacles that the past seems to place in our way . |
| 5 | Under pressure from fellow Social Democrats alarmed by the drift and division at the top of their party , Mr Engholm resigned on April 30th from all his posts : premier of Schleswig-Holstein , chairman of the Social Democrats and their candidate for chancellor next year . |
| 6 | ‘ The Welsh Office under my leadership will be committed to prosperity , to putting the search for work and investment at the top of the agenda . |
| 7 | BRIAN Reid and Joey Dunlop are neck and neck at the top of the McBride Fashions Irish 250cc Roadracing championship and this pair will be the focus of attention when the Carrowdore 100 takes place tomorrow . |
| 8 | Albert Foundry and the rejuvenated Salisbury are the pace-setters in division two , while Larne have a narrow half point lead over Ards and Willowfield at the top of junior division one . |
| 9 | Russia 's defeat in the Crimean War certainly owed something to poor leadership and complacency at the top . |
| 10 | Fiat countered by proposing to merge Alfa with its own Lancia subsidiary and claimed that : ‘ Our aim is to create a company specialising in high performance prestige cars with the sporty , aggressive characteristics of Alfa and the luxurious comfort of Lancia ; a company which can put itself and Fiat at the top of the European car market . ’ |
| 11 | The clerks and station officials were normally people of pure Spanish descent , while the managers and engineers at the top were usually British or American . |
| 12 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 13 | So if , for example , a feature like straight line at the top has excitatory connections with the letter detector for E , and curve at the top has inhibitory connections , how can the E-detector be excited by the stimulus e ? |
| 14 | The position of the legs , body , arms , hands and head at the top of the backswing is totally responsible for the success or otherwise of the forward swing . |
| 15 | He was seen as a supreme First Division predator , with a sequence of seven top-flight goals in just ten games in the mid-winter months as Palace pursued Arsenal and Liverpool at the top of the table ; he was also offered additional encouragement with recognition at the England B level . |
| 16 | He turned well in the box before hitting the outside of the post , but Aberdeen held on to go level with Motherwell and Hearts at the top of the table . |
| 17 | He turned well in the box before hitting the outside of the post , but Aberdeen held on to go level with Motherwell and Hearts at the top of the table . |
| 18 | ‘ Then we put him and Viola at the top of the list , do we ? |
| 19 | EVERY league game which Aberdeen play is , given the gap between them and Rangers at the top of the Premier Division , an invitation to flirt with disaster so far as the championship race is concerned . |
| 20 | ‘ They are over 30 , put performance well down on their list of priorities , and reliability , value for money and mpg at the top . |
| 21 | The structure of sexual offences in English criminal law places rape and buggery at the top of the ‘ ladder ’ , each carrying a maximum of life imprisonment , with the offences of attempted rape ( maximum penalty of life imprisonment ) and indecent assault ( maximum penalty of ten years ) beneath them . |
| 22 | That will be achieved only by putting education and training at the top of the agenda . |
| 23 | Sedgefield Tory candidate Nick Jopling : Said Conservatives were the only party with law and order at the top of the agenda and accused Labour of being soft on crime . |
| 24 | Wattana , who moved into third place , could overtake Hendry and Davis at the top if he wins his two matches in hand . |
| 25 | But if you had your name and year at the top you could actually put a simple statement along the bottom because you 'll only be issuing it for year nine |
| 26 | It was divided into its own hierarchies , the commercial sector of small-scale business men and women at the top , the beggars at the bottom . |
| 27 | No , I was thinking about feeling heavy when you got to the bottom of that drop and started going up again — and feeling light and floaty at the top . ’ |
| 28 | HEADLINERS : From left , Reg , Tony and Miles at the top of Nelson 's Column yesterday |
| 29 | One thing she has pointed out , which I find absolutely fascinating , is this triangular trap I 'm in with the victim at the bottom and the persecutor and rescuer at the top . |
| 30 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |