Example sentences of "the [noun] and above [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accountants need to understand the business , the people , the products and above all the marketplace and then relate that to the numbers . |
| 2 | Although general courses of various kinds are found in all kinds of institution , the prime examples are the Scottish general degree , the Open University with its foundation/modular structure , and the broader courses in the arts , social sciences and natural sciences in the polytechnics and above all the English and Welsh colleges . |
| 3 | Only families , the community and above all the old people themselves can solve the need to belong , to have a place , meaning and dignity in life . |
| 4 | But this will only occur if the style of running the business , the skills applied to the business and above all the cost base of the business , have been attacked ruthlessly in the interim period . |
| 5 | Here the stream with a stony bed , the rocky cliff on the left-hand side of the picture and above all the bridge itself , make the foundations for many of Green 's lakeland pack bridges . |
| 6 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |