Example sentences of "and above all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is packed with brilliant graphics and gameplay , environmental friendliness and above all originality . |
| 2 | The most heinous offences are incest ( i.e. sexual relations , and above all marriage , within the exogamous lineage ) , adultery ( which contaminates all the parties involved including the innocent spouse ) , disrespectful behaviour towards one 's relatives by marriage , and other transgressions of this sort . |
| 3 | Dr Walter Yellowlees has spent much of his life working in the Scottish county of Perthshire , where he has daily encountered diseases related to poor nutrition such as diabetes , coronary heart disease , high blood pressure and above all cancer . |
| 4 | The headteacher 's report is an opportunity to celebrate heroes , to show passion for the school , to show persistence and above all consistency . |
| 5 | However , the argument for adopting a similar approach in the case of financial services is based on the complexity and sophistication of the regulatory scheme created by Parliament to achieve the legislative aims of facilitating efficiency , competitiveness , flexibility and above all investor protection . |
| 6 | He brought to friendship , as to his work , perceptiveness , integrity and above all enjoyment . |
| 7 | But we had in our midst … the capacity to fight , to resist injustice , to organise , the sentiment of unity , the pride of the proletariat and above all class consciousness . |
| 8 | There is no way in which a vision of the future can be developed among a group of people unless those people have a very high degree of mutuality of respect , tolerance , and above all humour . |
| 9 | Like deciding whether or not to employ an accountant or to do one 's own accounts , it is a question of skill , will , inclination and above all time . |
| 10 | Many older people will share my sadness that mounting pressures of nationalism and above all commercialism have consigned such an approach to the legends and myths of the past . |
| 11 | Let me put it this way : presiding over the darkness out of which I had loomed there was a figure , a male shape , with an entirely unmanageable aura , containing such things as beauty , terror , love , filth , and above all power . |
| 12 | During 1963 , at the central police station on the research division , 76 per cent of the 611 arrests made by uniformed men were for offences against the public order such as vagrancy , loitering , and above all drunkenness … |