Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | People abandoned hope that things would get better , fearing simply that change at the top would mean change at the bottom — for the worse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Russia 's defeat in the Crimean War certainly owed something to poor leadership and complacency at the top . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That will be achieved only by putting education and training at the top of the agenda . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They reflected as to whether division at the top of the Korean peninsula might not be preferable but believed that the 38th parallel could be accepted if the Russians insisted on moving into the northern part of the peninsula . |
| 17 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |