Example sentences of "[vb pp] [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 | NatWest qualification is confined to the top 12 points-gatherers in Minor County cricket , irrespective of the division in which the counties play . |
| 4 | Peerages are for those who control industry , politics and the media and who invariably were educated at the top public schools . |
| 5 | The survey also shows that the audit market is dominated by the top 12 firms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now I am not rated among the top three Englishmen . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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% . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The club was situated on the top two floors of the building . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Prizes will be awarded to the top three entrants in each region . |
| 17 | Massive and beautifully-designed trophies were awarded to the top three men and women as the personal gifts given by the king , the princes and the princesses respectively . |
| 18 | The ATP Tour Championship next year offers a prize of $2m to be divided between the top eight players in the rankings . |
| 19 | On the third day , the pack was reshuffled with the top 12 teams distributed as follows : |