Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and above " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers also make gains and losses ( the areas below the demand for labour and above the wage line ) . |
| 2 | I was conscious of rich chaos , the sort of jumble that lures one into a junk-shop knowing that under the piles of objects and above one 's head there are riches to be mined . |
| 3 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 4 | All his talents were called on on such a day — his powers of calculation , of decision-making , of patience , of amiability , of firmness and above all of steering his excellently stocked , freshly painted and cleaned up vessel of an inn through the increasingly unpredictable currents of the day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The emphasis rhythm , inflection , tone of voice and above all the natural pauses convey more than their factual meaning . |
| 7 | Slap bang in the centre of Gumbet and above one of the best discos in town , the club Exclusive Harmony is our lively Club base for Summer ‘ 90 . |
| 8 | In fact all the variations are dominated by the intervals of the ground , and what is astonishing , this being so , is the variety of texture and above all the freedom of rhythm Britten achieves in a form once thought rigid and constricting . |
| 9 | There is no substitute for knowledge and above all the reception staff must have a complete knowledge of the product they are selling if they are going to sell effectively . |
| 10 | Use your gumption as they say in Yorkshire and above all pay attention to the way in which the goods are described to you . |
| 11 | In court yesterday Mr Finnegan , who ran North of England Investment from premises in Richmond and above Zhivago 's nightclub in Darlington , denied he had received a notice to quit but did not dispute the arrears . |
| 12 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 14 | This meant obvious limits on capacity and above all it meant no cars and no lorries which were the most lucrative traffic . |
| 15 | And then everyone raised their glasses in a spontaneous salute to the happy couple , to the perfect English village , to exotic foreign ladies , to the belle cuisine , to love , to life and above all , of course , to great detectives and their creator . |
| 16 | However , neither the A. S. M. nor your President could function without the expertise , devotion to duty and above all the sense of humour of our Secretary . |
| 17 | With the increase in the number of the elderly , our demand for services and above all for devoted staff and volunteers will grow enormously . |
| 18 | There is so much in this strain that some of Andrewes ' biographers have tended to suggest that he was tormented by shame for the compromises which he had made with evil at Court and above all for his actions in the Essex divorce . |
| 19 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |