Example sentences of "[pron] top [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PARCEL winging its way around the country carrying a homing device may sound like something straight from the pages of a James Bond story but there is nothing top secret about the idea . |
| 2 | Here are my top bottles ( and boxes ) to take you through the holiday : |
| 3 | My top mark went to Waitrose 's non-vintage Blanc de Noirs ( £11.25 ) , an elegant , finely structured champagne which is made entirely from the Pinot Noir grape . |
| 4 | Anyway , I knew what she was going through since I had been obliged to have all my top teeth out just before the storms started because they ached so much . |
| 5 | However , I prefer to do things about the house out of the goodness of my heart rather than on request and consider making a little tut noise with the tip of my tongue behind my top teeth . |
| 6 | Dust on my top fore-edge . |
| 7 | Ace is my top driver , and you ought to know perfectly well there 's a great deal riding on his shoulders at the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ My top priority is to do all that I can to help those out of work find jobs . |
| 9 | They do n't hug so well without the belt ; bum 's a little saggy , to tell the truth , but fashion is n't my top priority these days . |
| 10 | Commenting on his first impressions to AEA Times , Sir Anthony said , ‘ Obviously my top priority must be the current strategic options exercise in AEA , in which the DTI 's consultants and AEA 's own consultants are examining the feasibility of privatisation . ’ |
| 11 | Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard said today : ‘ My top priority is to help those individuals without jobs into new productive employment as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Although , in fact , a lot of my top sales people are women ; especially on the telephone-selling side . |
| 13 | ‘ Since then I 've had another report from one of my top security agents . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Oh yeah ? ’ said I plucking Barry from my top pocket . |
| 15 | ‘ You did n't , chief , ’ said a small green voice coming from my top pocket . |
| 16 | We divide throughout by the last element to obtain as our new starting column unc then the iterations , using ( 3 ) at each step , begin unc We postmultiply A ( ignoring its top row ) by the column ( 4 ) to get the column of three numbers on the right ; divide by the last element to get the bottom three elements in the next column , and find the top element from ( 3 ) . |
| 17 | So one horse may show apprehension by putting its ears half back at another more dominant horse , or drop its lower eyelids , or extend its top lip , or dilate and round-out its nostrils . |
| 18 | However , in many horses , but not all , the best barometer of its degree of rising emotion is its top lip . |
| 19 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 20 | The horse 's muscular control over its top lip is very precise , which is why the top lip can do so much and reveal so much : it can function like a thumbless hand , and sort and select preferred plants in the horse 's pasture , as well as reveal unrelated emotions with such dissimilar faces as those of anxiety and the Flehman posture . |
| 21 | She had not realised that some of the horses had been ‘ jazzed up ’ and made a bit more fearful or anxious , so that the horse had extended its top lip through tension . |
| 22 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 23 | The skin , which is the largest organ in the body , replaces its top layer completely about once every 28 days . |
| 24 | The grain is sealed before a basecoat is applied ; solid colours or tints are put on next , then the guitar receives its top coats of clear polyurethane . |
| 25 | In the U.K. , for example , four fifths of health service employees are women but over 90% of its top decision makers are men . |
| 26 | The programming in this release is really first rate , and its top graphics and controls allow this to claim to be up to arcade standards . |
| 27 | ‘ If we sit on the outside , then it will be difficult for London to retain its top position ’ |
| 28 | FOOD group Hillsdown has announced a restructuring of its top management which sees Charles Bowen taking over the helm at Maple Leaf Foods , Hillsdown 's largest subsidiary and the largest food manufacturer in Canada . |
| 29 | In 1979 , BOC changed its top management and decided it was no longer interested in Hall Automation . |
| 30 | In contrast , a small or medium-sized business will require greater competence and versatility from its top management , because they will not have the benefits of support from functional specialists which are available to the top managers of large organisations . |