Example sentences of "[is] above " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical survey is above all a category of book in which the writer will have closely observed the material discussed . |
| 2 | If the temperature is above 21°C you must leave the liquid to cool , covered with a lid or a tight fitting material such as Clingfilm . |
| 3 | If you live in a conventional two-storey house , the best place for a single alarm is above the bottom of the staircase . |
| 4 | This is not the case in non- autistic mentally handicapped children , who do well on false belief tasks so long as their mental age , by other criteria , is above three years . |
| 5 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 6 | Three of the –e wards which make up Easton have a proportion exceeding 500/0 of households with no car ; one of these wards is above the average for the general area at 53.5 per cent of households . |
| 7 | For electric machines one supplier offers this rough guide : look at the ratio of kilowatts ( kW ) power to litres of oil — you need roughly 1.5kW per litre of heated oil ( heated oil is above the element ) . |
| 8 | If your income is above £54.80 a week , 70 per cent of the additional amount is cut from the set payments . |
| 9 | If your income is above £54.80 a week , 70 per cent of the additional amount is cut from the set payments . |
| 10 | If your income is above £54.80 a week , 70 per cent of the additional amount is cut from the set payments . |
| 11 | It is above all a joyous celebration of all who break down barriers between people set up by authority . |
| 12 | Judges declare Jockey Club is above the law . |
| 13 | It is above all largely caused by people , with nature in the accomplice role . |
| 14 | If a negative voltage is applied to the tip , pushing electrons into the surface , the gallium atoms will show up clearly in the STM , because electrons will flow into the surface most when the tip is above a gallium atom . |
| 15 | ‘ My room is above this . ’ |
| 16 | Yet even migraine detained me with its potential , at first because of the popular assumption that it is above all a neurotic disorder and therefore confined to unstable personalities . |
| 17 | To us Bede is above all famous for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People ( 731 ) , but his contemporaries attached more importance , judging by manuscript circulation , to his scriptural commentaries . |
| 18 | However , there is one emotion that is above all the others . |
| 19 | For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic . |
| 20 | This outperforms the return on conventional gilts of the same maturity so long as inflation is above 1 p.c. to 2 p.c . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Delors insists that it is up to the pontifical authorities to check that everything is above board . |
| 22 | The EC is all kinds of things , good and bad , but it is above all a machine for producing proposed regulations embodied in documents . |
| 23 | But concern about the operation has been so great that police on the Isle of Man have been flooded with more than 50 calls asking if the operation is above board . |
| 24 | On an international basis , the British rate is calculated at 10.2 per cent which is above the averages for the ‘ Major 7 ’ economies , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , and the European Community . |
| 25 | The cognitive apparatus with its subjective aspect is above all concerned with the manipulation of information governing the conduct of the organism in relation to the environment through the flexible expression of evolved strategies . |
| 26 | Water that is above 4°C expands as it is warmed , like any other material . |
| 27 | Provided water is above 4°C to begin with , it expands as it warms , and so becomes less dense . |
| 28 | The town itself is above a steep hillside that leads down to what was originally the source of much of its wealth , the Painswick Stream . |
| 29 | If our Sun is above average , and our Galaxy is above average , why ca n't our planet be above average , too ? |
| 30 | If our Sun is above average , and our Galaxy is above average , why ca n't our planet be above average , too ? |