Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] above " in BNC.

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1 Stevie Ray 's own ‘ Number One ’ was refretted so many times that its fingerboard flattened out from about an 8″ radius at the first fret to nearly 10″ around and above the octave .
2 Because more than 50 people will be involved in the judging , it is impractical to reproduce the programme as intended through eight loudspeakers around and above the audience .
3 To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go .
4 Ribbon and spindle bombs both owe their shapes to events taking place within and above the volcanic vents , but other shaping processes also operate .
5 That 's the compound radius fingerboard for you , and having just come straight from playing a ‘ 62 reissue Strat , the Manson 's fingerboard around and above the octave felt virtually flat in comparison .
6 2. specify a smartdrv cache of 2MB , loading smartdrv high as above 3. specify a 2MB RAM drive using RAMdrive — load it high with devicehigh 4. in AUTOEXEC.BAT insert two lines : set tmp=d : \ set temp=d : \ ( where d : \ is the drive letter for your RAM drive — remove any other similar lines )
7 While it is possible to soften this blow by having different tax rates below and above the poverty line , or by having a social dividend that is smaller for those in than those out of work ( the two-tier case ) , once the simplicity and universality of the system is lost , so are most of its advantages .
8 It therefore involves an authority outside and above the order it establishes .
9 Thus , a claim to political power is legitimate only when the claimant can invoke some source of authority beyond or above himself .
10 For the belief that ‘ there is no occasion too small ’ is naturally at home in a society that resists any ranking of certain human and civic occasions below or above certain others .
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