Example sentences of "[noun] but above " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's technical mastery blossomed in the hushed mystery of the Nocturne but above all in the fireworks of the Tarantella . |
| 2 | Up to a certain critical pulsatance , would be unity but above this pulsatance , would be zero . |
| 3 | The managerial implications are profound in many ways but above all a management framework must be created which facilitates such relationships in the first place and then allows them to flourish . |
| 4 | The pope was thus successor of St Peter , between God and man , inferior to God but above man , St Peter 's vicar , but also , as Innocent now claims , " vicar of Christ " , as St Peter had been , rather than vicar of St Peter . |
| 5 | Father Conlin combined all these many onerous tasks with great efficiency but above all with constant good humour and kindness . |
| 6 | Of course this film was a condemnation of sweat-shop conditions , and of course it was a melodrama in which poor girls have affairs with the boss 's sons and in which the heroine brandishes a gun in order to make one son do the honourable thing but above all it was a vehicle for a star who had already become one of Hollywood 's hottest properties . |
| 7 | Hot air blasted from the generator vehicles but above everything blared the music . |
| 8 | The aim of this book , however , is to look beneath this superstructure , and to describe computers and their variation at a basic hardware level , below the operating system but above the detailed electronics ; we discuss further the nature of this level in § 1.3 . |
| 9 | ‘ Technological capability is of great interest to the customer but above all he wants a quality product at what is perceived to be value for money . |
| 10 | The others have a rank which is below that of an officer but above that of an ordinary soldier . ’ |
| 11 | In modern systems , pipes leading into gullies must be below the level of the grid but above the level of water in the trap . |