Example sentences of "[prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles , a relative unknown not long beforehand , became the natural choice for the top job . |
| 2 | If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m . |
| 3 | For the top five in the ranking list , only the Grand Slams count . ’ |
| 4 | Pyrah 's winning partner is qualified for the top competitions here but , because of his youth , the rider intends ‘ to use him with discretion ’ . |
| 5 | But in world judo at present , there is a group of young fighters all jockeying for the top positions — and in the first day of the World Championships here yesterday , they began to sort themselves out . |
| 6 | Elsewhere there are other incentives at stake in the shape of £10,000 , £6,500 , £3,500 and £1,500 end-of-season bonuses for the top four in the final Order of Merit . |
| 7 | The tax cuts for the top income earners , the increase in share prices over the decade , and the effects of the recession have sharpened economic differentials in the Thatcher period . |
| 8 | A full service history is essential and mechanical repair can be expensive , so shop around for the top examples . |
| 9 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 10 | That does not say much for the top chasers of the day , which are very thin on the ground . |
| 11 | Charlie started quietly to sing with the tape , and his sister joined him , both stretching for the top notes . |
| 12 | * Except for the top quality , Italian-produced no-cook pasta , such products should be avoided as they tend to taste of cardboard and have a similar texture . |
| 13 | The scores for the top 20 are remarkably close : less than 11 points separate Marks and Spencer from Wessex Water in 20th place . |
| 14 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 15 | Instead of putting their money into business , people lent it to the government in the hope that ERNIE ( the nickname of the Electronic Random Number Indicator ) would select their number for the top prize ( then ) of a modest £1,000 . |
| 16 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 17 | But Hutchison , a captain in the Royal Engineers , faced a much closer battle between World Cup skiers fighting for the top four places in the men 's event . |
| 18 | In basic form the 1,769cc diesel develops 60 bhp while turbo-charging boosts that to 78 bhp for the top model , putting up maximum speed from 96 to 108 mph . |
| 19 | Cold predominates : the mean temperature in some months in the North American tundra may be -30°C , and in Siberia an astonishing -50°C ; and in summer , the ground may remain frozen solid ( ‘ permafrost ’ ) except for the top metre or so . |
| 20 | More recently , this was made into a luxury hotel for the top brass of the Communist world . |
| 21 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 22 | This is the reason why a new coalification map for the top surface of the Carboniferous ( 1:500 000 ) is presented as a supplement and revision of a former map published in 1979 by the same authors . |
| 23 | A first coalification map for the top surface Carboniferous appeared in 1979 ( M. and R. Teichmüller and Bartenstein 1979 ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , the Ruhr coal industry put down numerous deep boreholes north of the mining area , so that a new coalification map for the top Carboniferous seemed justified . |
| 25 | the boreholes and outcrops from which samples for rank studies were collected with reflectance values for the top surface Carboniferous . |
| 26 | iso-reflectance lines ( % Rm ) for the top surface Carboniferous , |
| 27 | by the depth of the top surface Carboniferous which increases towards the N.N.E. An example is given by the Arsten Z1 borehole near Bremen where the boundary Westphalian C/D lying at a depth of 6180 m reaches the boundary between the anthracite and meta-anthracite stages with a vitrinite reflectance of 3.5% Rm ( for the top surface Carboniferous a value of 2.8% Rm was extrapolated ) . |
| 28 | This race against the clock is of an intriguing length , 68 kilometres , perhaps a little too short for the top men in the discipline . |
| 29 | THE MAN responsible for Britain 's contribution to the Concorde programme is this country 's candidate for the top job at the European space Agency ( ESA ) , which becomes vacant in a year 's time . |
| 30 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |