Example sentences of "and above " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It helps to plan for your pregnancy before you become pregnant and above all to concentrate on your health . |
| 4 | When the officer said , ‘ You will be charged with sedition , over and above the mobbing , but in certain circumstances that might not be pressed , ’ Cameron distressed himself by making a small , indefinite sound which could well have been taken for agreement . |
| 5 | So that when he returns to Mother England he 's still sporting that delicate shade of complexion so beloved of English males , and above all English females . ’ |
| 6 | That was why he promoted the idea of the Grand Slam Trust Fund , an opportunity for the four Grand Slam tournaments , as the pinnacles of the game , to make a major contribution to the grass roots on a global basis , over and above the enormous funding they provide for tennis in their own countries . |
| 7 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 8 | Most composers of specially commissioned music , even those later than Stravinsky , follow the time-honoured rules of thematic continuity and development and above all rhythmic phrasing . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the three dancers in Monotones are expressing their close relationship to each other and to the space in which they dance and above all to the flowing lines of the design and of the musical phrases . |
| 10 | They do it because they know the audience is watching a constantly evolving picture which is being drawn on , over , across and above a flat stage in front of a background . |
| 11 | He further developed what he called his danced mime or mimed dance in The Firebird and above all in Petrushka . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only when they have examined what hands , arms , legs and feet , body and above all the head can do in isolation and then in harmony with the story , theme or music , can they set out and create a style which will be general in structure and particular in texture , with the right quality , mood , emotion , action and character . |
| 14 | He added that people usually pale below the eyes and above the cheek bones , have many dreams including nightmares and hallucinations , suffer disturbed sleep especially at full moon , get up tired and listless , are prone to attacks of flu , and are driven to drink , drugs and heavy smoking . |
| 15 | That culture presupposed a high degree of what E. D. Hirsch calls ‘ cultural literacy ’ , particularly in respect of English history and the Christian and classical heritages , requiring competence in Latin and at least one modern language , as well as wide reading in English Literature over and above the demands of the curriculum . |
| 16 | It wants the Interim Advisory Committee , which will determine the profession 's pay increase for the 1990-91 year , to be allowed to remedy the error by using new money over and above the £600m limit the Government has set on the global sum available for any increase . |
| 17 | And above all there is Harold Wilson , ‘ piggy-eyed ’ , deceitful and contemptible . |
| 18 | But it believes it must take its message into all areas of life , to press causes , such an end to official silence on environmental problems , an investigation into glaring election fraud and above all an honest look at why so many are leaving . |
| 19 | The plain-clothes goons lounge in the lamplight below , and above them , children work patiently through the evenings , tending this rampart of candles against the wind . |
| 20 | He brought to friendship , as to his work , perceptiveness , integrity and above all enjoyment . |
| 21 | The permission of the Chief Constable was also a disadvantage in the field because it raised doubts among respondents about the purpose of the researcher 's questions over and above those that naturally arise from the political situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | And away and above her imagination lie the remote worlds of elegant Petrograd , and of Moscow , the city of the Communist future as well as of her inherited religious past . |
| 23 | Older people were more religious than the young , women more than men , and above all , the rural areas more than the urban workers , as S. G. Strumilin discovered in 1922 ( Table 1 ) . |
| 24 | As a general principle it should not be imagined that all economic , social , and above all political repercussions were of a vertical central — local nature or vice versa . |
| 25 | The effects of the Volga famine were more disruptive and politically dangerous in another national minority area that had more ethnic pretensions , and above all suffered nearly as much from famine as the Great-Russian Volga provinces . |
| 26 | If even only some of these criticisms were true , then national leadership in the agricultural sphere , and above all the subjugation of the Famine , was in precarious hands . |
| 27 | It has the text of Isaiah 31 : 5 , ‘ As birds flying , so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem ’ ; and above the city and cathedral of Durham an airman rides upon an eagle , protected from above by a winged seraph . |
| 28 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 29 | It may be argued that the King had a special responsibility to preserve the agreement , in that , in a country such as Britain without a codified constitution , there is no reference point , no pouvoir neutre , over and above the exigencies of party politics . |
| 30 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |