Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under pressure from fellow Social Democrats alarmed by the drift and division at the top of their party , Mr Engholm resigned on April 30th from all his posts : premier of Schleswig-Holstein , chairman of the Social Democrats and their candidate for chancellor next year . |
| 2 | ‘ The Welsh Office under my leadership will be committed to prosperity , to putting the search for work and investment at the top of the agenda . |
| 3 | BRIAN Reid and Joey Dunlop are neck and neck at the top of the McBride Fashions Irish 250cc Roadracing championship and this pair will be the focus of attention when the Carrowdore 100 takes place tomorrow . |
| 4 | Russia 's defeat in the Crimean War certainly owed something to poor leadership and complacency at the top . |
| 5 | She drew both father and child to the top of the sea , and when she saw them a spring of joy burst in her heart and the power of speech returned to her . |
| 6 | The view over Reine , Hamnöy and Kirkefjorden from the top of the climb is incredible , making an unreal backdrop for my equally fantastic work of art . |
| 7 | Cairns Tackle member Carl Robson also found the chub feeding taking four totalling 6.13.0 to feeder and maggot from the top of Brampton Field . |
| 8 | Good unisons are those formed by flute and oboe ( in the low and middle registers of the flute ) , flute and clarinet ( in all available registers ) , flute and bassoon ( flute of course in its low register , and bassoon near the top of its compass ) , flute and horn ( flute low again here , naturally ) . |
| 9 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 10 | Then the actual church which is iced by the third tier , the spires and decoration around the top of the building . |
| 11 | So if , for example , a feature like straight line at the top has excitatory connections with the letter detector for E , and curve at the top has inhibitory connections , how can the E-detector be excited by the stimulus e ? |
| 12 | The position of the legs , body , arms , hands and head at the top of the backswing is totally responsible for the success or otherwise of the forward swing . |
| 13 | Notable exceptions are the captain , Benson , Taylor , Ward and Graham Cowdrey , who bring substance and style to the top of the batting order . |
| 14 | The structure of sexual offences in English criminal law places rape and buggery at the top of the ‘ ladder ’ , each carrying a maximum of life imprisonment , with the offences of attempted rape ( maximum penalty of life imprisonment ) and indecent assault ( maximum penalty of ten years ) beneath them . |
| 15 | He lay on his elbow and hip along the top of a bureau , looking more like a Turkish sultan in a harem than he felt . |
| 16 | That will be achieved only by putting education and training at the top of the agenda . |
| 17 | Sedgefield Tory candidate Nick Jopling : Said Conservatives were the only party with law and order at the top of the agenda and accused Labour of being soft on crime . |
| 18 | Within its boundaries Blackbird Leys , where the scenes of last summer sent law and order to the top of the political agenda . |
| 19 | But if you had your name and year at the top you could actually put a simple statement along the bottom because you 'll only be issuing it for year nine |
| 20 | No , I was thinking about feeling heavy when you got to the bottom of that drop and started going up again — and feeling light and floaty at the top . ’ |
| 21 | In the Pentland Firth , they said , the waves had overrun the island of Stroma from end to end , piling fish and wreckage on the top , and destroying the steading and boats of Thorfinn 's steward . |
| 22 | One thing she has pointed out , which I find absolutely fascinating , is this triangular trap I 'm in with the victim at the bottom and the persecutor and rescuer at the top . |