Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] top [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul . |
| 2 | In HWIM the correct phoneme was included in the top two scores of the vector only 65% of the time . |
| 3 | The barn owl is the only bird to appear in the top 10 lists , at number 9 in the British list . |
| 4 | NatWest qualification is confined to the top 12 points-gatherers in Minor County cricket , irrespective of the division in which the counties play . |
| 5 | Peerages are for those who control industry , politics and the media and who invariably were educated at the top public schools . |
| 6 | The survey also shows that the audit market is dominated by the top 12 firms . |
| 7 | It will be supplemented by the top 50 companies in terms of employment levels , and both tables will give those at the sharp end of the economy the chance to give their businesses a much higher profile . |
| 8 | After playing no competitive chess for 20 years , Fischer 's comeback in beating Spassky — still an active player and rated in the top 100 players in the world — by 10 games to 5 with 15 draws is a remarkable achievement that would ( if it was rated ) earn him a place in the world 's top ten players . |
| 9 | To force Lawrie Smith to a match-race play-off he must finish in the top six nations . |
| 10 | Despite the sceptics who were still around in the 1980s , the science now ranks in the top ten technologies ( in terms of US patents issued 1992 ) alongside medical products , electronics and advanced materials . |
| 11 | Now I am not rated among the top three Englishmen . ’ |
| 12 | Finally , look after your health — if you are really going to the top enormous demands are going to be made on your time and strength and you can not afford to be careless . ’ |
| 13 | All unary operations ( such as negate ) are performed on the top element of the stack , and binary operations are performed on the top two elements of the stack ( after which they are removed ) and the result placed on the top of the stack . |
| 14 | Thus , in 1982 the top 100 quoted companies accounted for well over half the turnover , profit , and capital employed of the top 1000 companies , and within the top 100 , the top 10 accounted for over a quarter of turnover and capital . |
| 15 | Originally , Claudia and John Roberts lived in the top two floors of their tall , double-fronted end-of-terrace house , a walk away from London 's Regent 's Park and Primrose Hill . |
| 16 | Placed in the top four universities in terms of financial support from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , Bristol has received funding from the UFC this year to support the second largest increases in student numbers in the country — some 17% . |
| 17 | On 30 March , however , an exceptionally violent explosion occurred , blowing off the top 200 metres of the volcano , and propagating a dense eruption cloud which expanded upwards at a speed estimated to be something like 500 metres per second , finally reaching a height of thirty-eight kilometres . |
| 18 | The House of Mattli was a husband and wife team who were numbered amongst the top ten names in the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers . |
| 19 | He added that special incentives should perhaps apply to the top 10 managers , whose performances will be crucial in retaining the franchise . |
| 20 | S-Bit Plus applies to the top three players , headed by the CDX-1060 flagship ( £599.95 ) which has a ‘ twin-balanced ’ processing circuit using Class A amplifier stages , full remote control via a 30-key handset , 25-track programming , Program File ( stores approximately ten selections from up to 100 discs ) , motor-driven volume control , optical and digital outputs , separate mains transformers for the digital and analogue circuitry and a new two-way laser control servo system . |
| 21 | Koch started at the top seven years ago with an 85ft cruising boat , a 65ft fishing boat and an 81ft racing maxi named Matador , after the family ranch in Kansas . |
| 22 | The club was situated on the top two floors of the building . |
| 23 | A good three-quarters of Mr Singleton 's production falls into the top two grades but he believes he can improve on that . |
| 24 | Under the helm of Sydney Newman , the weekly productions scored in the top ten ratings chart for a staggering thirty-two out of thirty-seven weeks between Autumn 1959 and Summer 1960 , with audiences averaging upwards of 12 million . |
| 25 | They say peace , it does n't just go on the top two inches of the surface water , it goes right to the very depths of your life and keeps . |
| 26 | In order to win through to a match-racing play-off , he needed to finish among the top six nations at this regatta . |
| 27 | But Hutchison , a captain in the Royal Engineers , faced a much closer battle between World Cup skiers fighting for the top four places in the men 's event . |
| 28 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 29 | In contrast , Theory Y focuses upon the top three tiers of Maslow 's hierarchy and implies the integration of individual goals with those of the organisation . |
| 30 | Prizes will be awarded to the top three entrants in each region . |