Example sentences of "and above [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a sports field second to none , a good village hall with stage , dressing rooms and billiard room , and above all a friendly atmosphere . |
| 2 | There is friendly gossip and fun in conversation , and above all a sense of caring and looking after each other . |
| 3 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 4 | This complex behaviour requires mechanisms to register the presence of prey or danger and to decide on and make the appropriate response , attacking or contracting into a blob — sensory cells , secretory cells , muscle cells and above all a network of electrically connected cells running right across its surface which can coordinate the hydra 's responses . |
| 5 | He became a successful businessman , on a small scale , with a continuing faith in the co-operative movement , and above all a consistent advocate of compulsory , free , and unsectarian education . |
| 6 | His article in the Weekly Register ( 1849–50 ) demonstrates his concern for building within reasonable financial limits , his care for responsible historicism , and above all a strong commitment to the revived Gothic style . |
| 7 | Innocence , discipline , high standards and above all a kind of scrubbed , simple beauty . |
| 8 | Nevertheless what was being demonstrated in the course of 1945 was that — whatever the feelings of affinity that might exist between Britain and the United States — a substantial relationship could not endure without a strong sense of common interests and above all a sense of exposure to common dangers . |
| 9 | A big THANK YOU to those teachers who have worked so very hard in so many various ways to encourage this scheme and above all a big THANK YOU to our class members who after all are the backbone of our Society ; it would be impossible to raise money without their help . |
| 10 | This colonnade carried a classical entablature and above was a plain wall ( where the Medieval triforium normally is to be found ) and above this a row of small clerestory windows . |