Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] above [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems of this sort will quickly undermine the value of a recruitment system , which is designed above all for speed . |
| 2 | It is said above that one must take one of two positions : one is that stress is not predictable by rule and must be learned word by word ( see for example Jones ( 1975 ) , sections 920–1 ) . |
| 3 | But it is exposed above all in a letter of Alcuin ( 796 ) criticizing the whole policy . |
| 4 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 5 | It should be clear from what is said above that from the purely practical classroom point of view , generative phonology has little to offer and could well create confusion . |