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

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1 Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) .
2 It is no longer the case that the romantic style means dancing classically from the feet to the waist and above that allowing the body , arms and head to express themselves to describe the moods , emotions and actions of the characters .
3 As the election campaign threatens to engulf us , think through the trivia and above the bickering to the real values of the Conservatives compared to the phoney , intrusive dictums of the leaners to the Left .
4 But we had in our midst … the capacity to fight , to resist injustice , to organise , the sentiment of unity , the pride of the proletariat and above all class consciousness .
5 Talcott Parsons has proposed the very influential theory that of all other available institutions it is the classroom that above all converts an incomplete person into a member of the kind of society Parsons takes for granted as natural , that is , a kind of society where to be social is to be interested in achievement .
6 They want to be relaxed and businesslike in the classroom and above all for the pupils to be willingly engaged in the process of learning .
7 Only families , the community and above all the old people themselves can solve the need to belong , to have a place , meaning and dignity in life .
8 But this will only occur if the style of running the business , the skills applied to the business and above all the cost base of the business , have been attacked ruthlessly in the interim period .
9 Here the stream with a stony bed , the rocky cliff on the left-hand side of the picture and above all the bridge itself , make the foundations for many of Green 's lakeland pack bridges .
10 And to the right and above them were the black floor and lighter awning and sides of the gallery , which contained three nervous men who had already let off their handguns at random .
11 It is considered a vital part of the mission of the AMF(L) to make an outward display of friendliness towards the population and above all to display unity within the Force itself .
12 This allows you to specify an inheritance boundary below which newly entered unapproved modules will inherit the state of the current latest version of the module and above which inheritance will not occur and the new version will inherit the inheritance boundary indicated by the INHERIT-UPTO-STATE keyword .
13 Would you tell people if it was from above erm , the elbow or above the knee ?
14 Hitler 's image , however , stood apart from this : ‘ For many of these young ones , the Führer is not the representative of the Party , but in the first instance Führer of the State and above all Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht . ’
15 ‘ 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 .
16 He was soon working on a valuable theory of the Crown as above party politics .
17 In modern systems , pipes leading into gullies must be below the level of the grid but above the level of water in the trap .
18 For example , there are two sum icons — a 2D sum that sums the cells to the left or above the cursor and can even fill in the row and column totals for a block ; and a 3D sum that consolidates data in the pages behind it — so you can do cookie-cutter sums on a whole range in one go .
19 I had a flat tape recorder with a directional mic and I stuck it on the table and above me was a speaker through which all this muzak was coming out .
20 The Old Wives ' Tale ‘ Do n't lean below 5,000 feet ’ resulted from the fact that above 5,000 feet , full throttle at red-line rpm gives less than 75 per cent of rated power , therefore one can lean .
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