Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] top [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Robin Francis ( York ) made a clean sweep of his four races to win the award for the top ten-year-old boy at the Gateshead open meet . |
2 | And at the same time the income divide between the top twenty percent of men and the bottom twenty percent is now greater than it were hundred years ago . |
3 | THE future of a top sporting venue in the North-East is i n doubt again after a new offer to buy the land for a massive shopping development . |
4 | TALKS are to be held between a cricket club and a rugby club over the future of a top sporting venue . |
5 | By convention , ACS gives a result in the top 2 quadrants ( 0 to PI-0 to 180 degrees ) and ASN and ATN in the right-hand 2 quadrants ( -PI/2 to +PI/2 — -90 to +90 degrees ) . |
6 | ‘ That ! ’ said Orrie succinctly , and pointed a large brown forefinger at the top right corner of the window , where his periodic cleaning had not bothered to extend its sweep . |
7 | What has sustained him throughout , he says , has been the support of the top 20 firms and , crucially , the presence of non-practitioners — who make up half the membership — on the board . |
8 | FTSE index of the top 100 shares starts 28.2 points down . |
9 | The Footsie 100 Index of the Top 100 shares has more or less stood still this year . |
10 | The FTSE index of the top 100 shares slumped 37.5 points yesterday , cutting share values by an estimated £8bn . |
11 | It 's known in the City as the Hemline Index ( as opposed to the usual measure of the top 100 companies ' shares , the FTSE 100 ) . |
12 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said yesterday that padlocks securing a barrier at Orford Ness , former home of a top secret defence establishment , had been severed with bolt cutters on at least two occasions during the past six months . |
13 | Any or all of the program group boxes can themselves be reduced to icons by clicking on the downward facing arrow in the top right-hand corner of the screen or by selecting MINIMISE . |
14 | However , with agreement due to be reached soon between the Super League and the Scottish League about the arrangements for a return to the top ten formula the season after next , there is now set to be compromise over a 14-club league on a one-off basis . |
15 | And it was after a pre-lunch 76 here that first time Scot , Chris Cowan , found himself heading the charge for a top qualifying place . |
16 | Later , Kirby organises the kidnapping of a top Communist officer with the aid of a beautiful spy . |
17 | The Institute is involved in research and in the practical restoration of the top cultural monuments . |
18 | The Scottish League , meanwhile , could soon consist of four divisions of ten clubs after a meeting of the top 12 clubs yesterday supported the principle of increasing the League 's membership from 38 to 40 teams . |
19 | After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings . |
20 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
21 | There was among them a total absence of the higher and ( at least nominally ) salaried business executive who formed the largest single group in the top 450 Bordeaux families in 1960 . |
22 | The 555's neck is maple with a rosewood fingerboard , glued in to the body in a Les Paul Junior kind of style , giving a clear run right to the top 22nd fret . |
23 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
24 | AN Olympic swimming coach was suspended from his post at a top public school yesterday as police probed allegations of inde-cent assault . |
25 | Tory chiefs were celebrating last night as a top Labour man prepared to join Tory ranks . ’ |
26 | Petras and Cook found that only 4.9 per cent of their sample of the top national bourgeoisie were nut dependent on technology that originated from abroad . |
27 | As the results came in , there was delight that the rest of the top 10 rafts all came from Herefordshire . |
28 | And for those seeking a holiday full of adventure and mountain sunshine , we 're proud to present a wide selection of the top Austrian resorts . |
29 | In relation to the rest of the country , however , the share of the top six cities fell by 2.5 percentage points . |
30 | His own success , with its accumulation of titles , meant that by 1987 the circulation share of the top three groups had slipped back — but the number of titles within them was greater than ever . |