Example sentences of "come [prep] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , a new order came from TOP . |
| 2 | These threats came on top of sabotage and flight by the owners of industry , and these factors themselves led to further complications . |
| 3 | The VAT on fuel , charged at 8pc next year and 17.5 in 1995 , came on top of the expected rise in road tax duty , tobacco and alcohol duty — although the Chancellor 's own favourite tipple , whisky , escaped scotch free . |
| 4 | The verdict came on top of an earlier Mirror phone-in in which readers voted a massive 7-1 in favour of Di becoming our next Queen . |
| 5 | This came on top of a 45 per cent and 35 per cent fall in its value on the black market and official markets respectively since September ; overall this trend represented a reversal in the bank 's previous policy of intervention to support the currency . |
| 6 | Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 7 | Coming on top of a worryingly high inflation rate and a sequence of record-breaking trade deficits , Labour will be working hard to demonstrate that ordinary people are paying dearly for mistakes which the once super-abundantly confident Chancellor has made in economic management . |
| 8 | Coming on top of Wednesday 's Commons confrontation with Mr Doulgas Hurd , the Foreign Secretary — in front of Mrs Thatcher — Mr Tebbit 's column in yesterday 's London Evening Standard dramatically departed from normally discreet Tory methods of party in-fighting . |
| 9 | The totally unexpected mention of the Foundling Hospital , coming on top of the shock of seeing James , had shaken her so much she scarcely knew how to complete the rest of her tasks . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a bitter blow , coming on top of massive job losses in aerospace , ’ union spokesman John Weakley said yesterday . |
| 11 | ‘ This is a bitter blow , coming on top of massive job losses in aerospace , ’ said union leader John Weakley . |
| 12 | Here he died , after a short illness , perhaps , as his nephew 's biography says , of a liver disorder , but more probably of gaol-fever , debility and the shock of re-arrest , coming on top of the disappointment of all his worldly hopes . |
| 13 | But the wafer-thin support in France , coming on top of Denmark 's No vote in June , left European leaders badly shaken . |
| 14 | ‘ I could see the train coming on top of us . |
| 15 | But TUC economic committee chairman Rodney Bickerstaffe called the proposal , coming on top of bumper increases for bosses , an ‘ insult ’ . |
| 16 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 17 | The Polish revolt , coming on top of evidence of underground activity by the radical wing of the intelligentsia , cast a suspicious light over all pressure for reform . |
| 18 | Coming on top of a period of reduced or forgone earnings towards the end of their working lives , the future prospects for carers such as these are indeed grim . |
| 19 | Today 's four withdrawals , coming on top of earlier drop-outs by Sheffield Wednesday 's Paul Warhurst and Arsenal 's Alan Smith , leave Taylor short of cover but will not have too drastic an effect on his team strategy for the Group Two game . |
| 20 | The French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas , said on Aug. 22 that there was " as yet " no evidence of official Iranian involvement ; there had been fears that the incident , coming on top of the recent difficulties in resolving a financial dispute between France and Iran [ see p. 38363 ] , could jeopardize a planned visit to Iran by French President Mitterrand . |
| 21 | Labour MP Bryan Davies , an Oldham Athletic fan and organiser of the parliamentary soccer team , said : ‘ Coming on top of the World Cup cricket fiasco . |
| 22 | ‘ Coming on top of the extension of VAT to fuel , the administration of the benefits system is clearly in a complete mess , and [ social security secretary ] Peter Lilley has to get his act together . ’ |
| 23 | This , coming on top of the refusal to allow ‘ globalisation ’ or multinationalism of the carrier USAir through British Airways participation on home ground clearly demonstrates the fallaciousness of previous stances and the fundamental self-interest of liberalisation arguments . |
| 24 | Moreover , they come on top of an unhappy experience with foreign currency borrowing for most of the Eastern European countries during the Seventies . |
| 25 | It is simply because we are fitter and tougher , harder and stronger , that we come on top on so many occasions . |
| 26 | And the cost savings that result — which come on top of the remarkable savings you make through buying director from CompuAdd . |
| 27 | The redundancies come on top of five hundred already announced by the firm over the past eighteen months , mostly as a result of cutbacks in defence spending . |
| 28 | That comes on top of the tens of thousands of pounds in claims that the name will already have had to pay . |
| 29 | Planning comes on top of all this . |
| 30 | The row over Landsat equipment comes on top of a dispute over a ground station that China has set up in Peking , with American help , for receiving data from US and Japanese meteorological satellites . |