Example sentences of "its top [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We divide throughout by the last element to obtain as our new starting column unc then the iterations , using ( 3 ) at each step , begin unc We postmultiply A ( ignoring its top row ) by the column ( 4 ) to get the column of three numbers on the right ; divide by the last element to get the bottom three elements in the next column , and find the top element from ( 3 ) . |
| 2 | So one horse may show apprehension by putting its ears half back at another more dominant horse , or drop its lower eyelids , or extend its top lip , or dilate and round-out its nostrils . |
| 3 | However , in many horses , but not all , the best barometer of its degree of rising emotion is its top lip . |
| 4 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 5 | The horse 's muscular control over its top lip is very precise , which is why the top lip can do so much and reveal so much : it can function like a thumbless hand , and sort and select preferred plants in the horse 's pasture , as well as reveal unrelated emotions with such dissimilar faces as those of anxiety and the Flehman posture . |
| 6 | She had not realised that some of the horses had been ‘ jazzed up ’ and made a bit more fearful or anxious , so that the horse had extended its top lip through tension . |
| 7 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 8 | The skin , which is the largest organ in the body , replaces its top layer completely about once every 28 days . |
| 9 | The grain is sealed before a basecoat is applied ; solid colours or tints are put on next , then the guitar receives its top coats of clear polyurethane . |
| 10 | In the U.K. , for example , four fifths of health service employees are women but over 90% of its top decision makers are men . |
| 11 | The programming in this release is really first rate , and its top graphics and controls allow this to claim to be up to arcade standards . |
| 12 | ‘ If we sit on the outside , then it will be difficult for London to retain its top position ’ |
| 13 | FOOD group Hillsdown has announced a restructuring of its top management which sees Charles Bowen taking over the helm at Maple Leaf Foods , Hillsdown 's largest subsidiary and the largest food manufacturer in Canada . |
| 14 | In 1979 , BOC changed its top management and decided it was no longer interested in Hall Automation . |
| 15 | In contrast , a small or medium-sized business will require greater competence and versatility from its top management , because they will not have the benefits of support from functional specialists which are available to the top managers of large organisations . |
| 16 | It is very shrill and piercing in its top register , which thus requires the support of a large orchestral mass . |
| 17 | Dreyfus paid its top trader a ‘ special bonus ’ of $1.2 million and two underlings $0.75 million each . |
| 18 | The uniformity of its top executives is the crucial case in point . |
| 19 | If the glider is facing across the wind with the into-wind wing held down , the wind will be blowing on to its top surface , producing an extra down-load . |
| 20 | The New York Film Critics Circle gave Emma , 33 , its top honour after she picked up the DW Griffith and Los Angeles Critics awards for her portrayal of Helen Schlegel in the adaptation of E M Forster 's novel , Howards End . |
| 21 | League does not have enough good amateurs to feed its professional ranks and few of its top professionals continue in amateur league when their careers end . |
| 22 | RIVAL Allied Lyons has put its top ranking Bordeaux vineyard , Chateau Latour , up for sale . |
| 23 | The company has done away with its once-powerful executive committee : its top echelon will now report directly to Turndal . |
| 24 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 25 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 26 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 27 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 28 | It 's something Dermot O'Shea is pleased to see — as Art Editor of The Irish Times he 's always felt that , just as a newspaper gives prominence to its top story , so also its best images should be treated with equal respect . |
| 29 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 30 | That window then becomes the active window with its top bar highlighted . |