Example sentences of "[noun sg] above " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT RONNIE SCOTT 's Club last night I was chatting to some of the members , insofar as one could hear one 's self talk above the noise of the musicians , when the subject of London transport came up . |
| 2 | At mid-height along its eastern flank is an easy terrace above a belt of limestone traversed by a cart track known as the Turbary Road ( turbary being a place where peat is dug ) , giving an exhilarating walk with open views across the valley of Kingsdale to Whernside ; there is much of interest to see along the route with three spectacular highlights . |
| 3 | Although we routed him , he subsequently appeared on a terrace above that on which we were walking . |
| 4 | The first identifiable phase of occupation of the gravel terrace above the River Thames began early in the fifth century and consisted of a dense settlement within which three periods of rebuilding were observed . |
| 5 | David Smith 's ‘ Cubi XXVII ’ , the celebrated work which used to stand by the museum 's entrance , and a second sculpture by the artist , have been placed on an awkward terrace above the Monitor Building . |
| 6 | Views , especially from the front and the pool terrace above the lake are splendid . |
| 7 | Now it was the hour when they brought out the pastis and big water-jug and lit the scented candles on the terrace above the bay and Paul and Jeannine and the rest of them were beginning to arrive and Therese was telling them what there would be to eat . |
| 8 | She no longer felt the presence of anyone on the terrace above her . |
| 9 | At the bottom of the slope , on the terrace above the ornamental lake , a woman was walking , looking back towards the house . |
| 10 | We camped on a terrace above the lake and had a splendid bathe , swimming and splashing in the fresh clear water . |
| 11 | She was wearing a short fitted coat of wine-red velvet above her dress , with a bonnet trimmed with the same dark fur . |
| 12 | The steel hangar with the faded painted name of Babbidge above one door was at the end . |
| 13 | In the gloom of a London club called Blitz , the person who would define this new sensibility above all others , the club 's sometime cloakroom attendant , a young boy called George O'Dowd , caught sight of his reflection in the mirror , applied his make-up — as he would put it , ‘ to remove all the hideousness ’ — and plotted how he too might acquire the only worthwhile currency left : fame . |
| 14 | Then he grinned and opened his mouth , as if to list further commodities produced on the premises , when a further member of the household came into the room , this time through the doorway above ground . |
| 15 | Some 860,000 people receive water with an average nitrate concentration above 50 mg/litre . |
| 16 | Some 850,000 people are supplied with water with a nitrate concentration above 50 mg/litre . |
| 17 | Despite the routine use of cyclosporin only two patients had a plasma creatinine concentration above 175 µmol/l . |
| 18 | Despite the use of cyclosporin ( a nephrotoxic agent ) in these patients only two had a plasma creatinine concentration above 175 µmol/l , confirming the findings of Lewis et al that the use of such an agent in the long term was associated with impaired but generally stable aggregate renal function in heart transplant cohorts . |
| 19 | Furthermore , there is no relationship between the magnitude of the hypergastrinaemia and the density of argyrophilic cells in patients with the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome , which may indicate that there also in man exists a maximal gastrin concentration above which no further trophic effect on enterochromaffin like cells may be obtained . |
| 20 | In conclusion , the present study indicates that there is an increasing enterochromaffin like cell density with increasing gastrin concentration up to a certain level , and increasing the gastrin concentration above this level does not lead to further hyperplasia . |
| 21 | Davenport found that ethanol solutions with a concentration above 10% produced mucosal damage . |
| 22 | Four of 127 ( 3.1% ) blood transfusion donors , all five patients with hypertrophic gastropathy , 20 of 24 ( 83.3% ) patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome , 21 of 50 ( 42% ) of patients with duodenal ulcer , 43 of ? ? ( 86% ) of patients with chronic renal failure , and 14 of 28 ( 50% ) of patients with reflux oesophagitis on longterm omeprazole treatment had a raised serum pepsinogen A concentration above 95 µg/l . |
| 23 | She felt a hand resting lightly on her shoulder and she turned to look at Craig , almost unrecognizable now with his beard grown and his moustache thick and dark above his mouth . |
| 24 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |
| 25 | OK , so it 's your business to flog copies and you 've got a ‘ large and loyal readership ’ anyway , but is this peroxide pin-up above being challenged ? |
| 26 | A Doomsday watch had been kept on the great slab of rock — nearly the size of a football pitch — ever since workers discovered a fault in the face of the mountainside above the N-2 highway in February . |
| 27 | Down the mountainside above the city at dawn on 10 November — almost 17 months to the day since the civil war had begun — there filed column after column of Syrian tanks , artillery and troop transporters at least 20 miles of them , clogging the valleys with clouds of blue exhaust fumes . |
| 28 | This was in the slope of the mountainside above the shelf and below the scree on which Peter had slipped . |
| 29 | One of their helicopters was standing on a level ledge of mountainside above my refuge . |
| 30 | The babe was fretful with teething , but as she came along the corridor she heard a gentle humming above the baby 's wails . |