Example sentences of "[pron] [is] above [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the diffusionist and the evolutionary methods contrast with the structural-functional , which is above all contextual , and seeks at least the primary significance of the present in the present rather than in the past . |
| 2 | Its incipit began with the prayer : ‘ Almighty Author and lover of peace , scatter the nations that delight in war , which is above all plagues injurious to books ’ . |
| 3 | There is one body , and one Spirit , as you are called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord , one faith , one baptism , one God and Father of us all , who is above all , and through all , and in all . |
| 4 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 5 | It is above all a joyous celebration of all who break down barriers between people set up by authority . |
| 6 | It is above all largely caused by people , with nature in the accomplice role . |
| 7 | Yet even migraine detained me with its potential , at first because of the popular assumption that it is above all a neurotic disorder and therefore confined to unstable personalities . |
| 8 | The EC is all kinds of things , good and bad , but it is above all a machine for producing proposed regulations embodied in documents . |
| 9 | It is above all women who are living longer . |
| 10 | It is above all those children who were cared for actively by their grandparents who recall them in depth and with strong feeling . |
| 11 | It is above all the school which is felt to embody the idea of the village as something alive and enduring . |
| 12 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 13 | It is above all nuclear weapons that constitute a ‘ total ’ use of armed force . |
| 14 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 15 | It is above all in the sets of variations that the English virginal repertory differs from the consort repertory ; Allison 's ‘ Goe from my Window ’ variations in Morley 's Consort Lessons are quite exceptional . |
| 16 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 17 | It is above all in the general success of their rulers in improving the position of the monarchy that the history of Spain and the Habsburg lands differs , at least until the 1780s , from that of France . |
| 18 | Before examining it , however , let us agree that it is above all an expression of taste . |
| 19 | Gandhi actually acknowledges this fact ; he is above all a practical idealist . |
| 20 | For he is above all concerned to deny that the point of the universe is somehow to serve human interests . |
| 21 | He is always older than the heroine , usually in his early or mid-30s , rich , successful in the vocation of his own choice … he is above all virile . |