Example sentences of "of [noun sg] above " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 2 | The former assessed need to spend by an authority as a basis for calculating entitlement to block grant ; the latter was a system of expenditure controls based around the progressive removal of grant above the ‘ target ’ expenditure level set for each authority . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : Pamela has a solidity of judgement above her years , a genteel air and a docility unequalled . |
| 4 | People with higher incomes will have their age allowance reduced by £1 for every £2 of income above the income limit . |
| 5 | Only that portion of income above this figure is taxed at a marginally higher rate . |
| 6 | 7.1.3 Changes in the taper arrangements for housing benefit which mean that up to 85% of income above the Income Support Level will be set against Housing Benefit entitlement . |
| 7 | Assuming that the money market is in equilibrium initially , the policy will raise the supply of money above the demand for money , and wealth holders will find themselves holding more money than they desire in their portfolios . |
| 8 | According to this , with a constant nominal money supply , a general deflation of wages and prices will tend to increase the real value of people 's holdings of money above their desired levels . |
| 9 | The main river of the strath is not called Conon but Meig and its headwaters rise on the slopes of Moruisg/Ceannaichean above Achnashellach , giving a through route which was once as busy as Strath Bran but now only sees the rare backpacker with an eye for good cross-country walking . |
| 10 | Political funding through PACs is creating a centralised system that puts the loyalty of candidates to the national source of funding above that to their local constituency . |
| 11 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 12 | He feels his way through the bowels of the city , conscious of the weight of civilisation above him . |
| 13 | Wallace Ellwood sat on a lip of rock above the path that led to Meer 's Point and waited for Tom Carey to appear . |
| 14 | The lady , yes , she certainly was a woman , stood barefoot on top of the white outcrop of rock above the spring . |
| 15 | There was a huge movement of rock above the old coal face when the roof came in . |
| 16 | The steel hangar with the faded painted name of Babbidge above one door was at the end . |
| 17 | One of their helicopters was standing on a level ledge of mountainside above my refuge . |
| 18 | One function of these posts was to sift , summarise and present information to the layers of management above them . |
| 19 | When Thucydides spoke of the allies who urged Sparta to go to war , he was thinking of Corinth above all . |
| 20 | However , management is constrained in this not only by the technical capabilities , but also by the requirement to break even on the basis of rate of return above the norm . |
| 21 | The underside of the road bridge was of fiat construction , with about three feet of clearance above normal water level . |
| 22 | Removal of wood above a growth bud or shoot diverts energy into that bud or shoot . |
| 23 | Egon Zehnder has a not dissimilar approach , but a more cautious and longer-term perspective , putting quality of people and of work above everything else and truly trying to build a worldwide firm with a recognisable cultural identity . |
| 24 | The earliest onset of gas generation in the Southern North Sea was in the late Jurassic following the accumulation of + 11700 ft ( 3500 m ) of sediment above the Carboniferous source beds . |
| 25 | The base of the upper division can he defined as precisely as the lowest grain of sediment above the golden spike , so that even if there is a break at the level chosen , the definition will still stand and missing strata below the spike will automatically belong to the lower division . |
| 26 | The dotted curve AD , for example , is the vapour pressure curve of a-sulphur above its transition temperature . |
| 27 | No one doubts the toxic properties of lead above such levels , and that is not an issue in this debate . |
| 28 | Table 5.3 Dates of reaching certain percentages of population above age 65 in selected countries |
| 29 | Authorities exceeding their target incurred a penalty which involved loss of grant for each additional pound of expenditure per head of population above target . |
| 30 | Her face a rice-white mask of impassivity above the elaborately arranged draperies of her kimono , she looks more objet d'art than human being . |