Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Fran Bennett , the group 's director , said the report showed the ‘ scale of deprivation among claimants ’ and challenged the main political parties to put tackling poverty at the top of their agendas . |
| 2 | The absence of reference to exchange rates and the EMS was presumably because there was nothing he could say without exciting renewed speculation or reopening divisions at the top of the Government . |
| 3 | Drop-leaf tables which could be placed against the wall when not in use developed during the pre-Commonwealth period , but the method of framed ‘ joined ’ construction necessitated the use of a securing pivot at the top and the bottom of the swing-out supporting leg . |
| 4 | Bureaus , as Downs points out , are oligarchic in nature , with power , income and prestige reinforcing the authority of officials holding positions at the top of the hierarchy ( Downs 1967 , p. 58 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ He was n't a burglar , ’ I said , joining Nassim at the top of the stairs . |
| 6 | In sport , India will play England in a one-day cricket international in Bangalore on Friday , while at home there are important Scottish Premier League matches involving clubs at the top and bottom of the league . |
| 7 | THE EXTENT of the philosophical shift taking place at the top of the Metropolitan Police was illustrated in a speech delivered by Sir Peter Imbert to the International Police Exhibition and Conference in London at the end of September . |
| 8 | It shows in their football teams - both putting skill at the top of the agenda ahead of any other considerations . |
| 9 | His cat was chased by a dog , he says , before finding refuge at the top of a concrete lamp post . |
| 10 | look at erm page forty would you please , this is at if you look at page forty one there you 've got people playing bowls at the top there , maybe another retirement activity and at the bottom of the page forty two it 's dated nine eighty five |
| 11 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 12 | The old tips were formed by dumping material at the top and allowing it to fall into its natural angle of repose . |