Example sentences of "[conj] above [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include gully control structures ; waterways and storm diversion channels in or above cultivated areas ( sometimes planted with grasses , sometimes floored with stones or concrete ) ; storm dams of earthen , concrete or stone and wire construction ; and terraces . |
| 2 | Most of us , of course , hope to have children that we can consider ‘ normal ’ ; with average or above average intelligence , and no physical defects . |
| 3 | The proportions of pupils in the project sample of lower attainers making these two errors were as follows : These results indicate that the understanding of fractions and decimals is a considerable conceptual problem for all lower attaining pupils — and for many of average or above average attainment . |
| 4 | Results from the APU have demonstrated that decimal place value is a problem for pupils who are average or above average attainers . |
| 5 | For the belief that ‘ there is no occasion too small ’ is naturally at home in a society that resists any ranking of certain human and civic occasions below or above certain others . |
| 6 | Courses on Oct 26th and Nov 9th will be aimed at paddlers above grade 2 with corresponding courses on the successive Sundays for those of SI level or above involved in coaching . |
| 7 | There are few universities where crèches are not at or above full capacity , and without new thinking or new money , the situation is unlikely to change much . |
| 8 | By providing leadership , a manager should be able to use the capabilities of subordinates to better effect , ie leadership is the ‘ influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with the routine directives of the organisation ’ ( Katz and Kahn : The Social Psychology of Organisations ) . |
| 9 | Each year , industry spends at least £125 million on charitable activities over and above straightforward donations . |
| 10 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 11 | For classifications involve considerations of reason and policy over and above mere empirical data . |
| 12 | So what is there to linguistic meaning , over and above mere causation ? |
| 13 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 14 | While regarded as able and industrious , senior staff are also thought to be remote , invisible , and above personal contact . |
| 15 | But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism . |
| 16 | The reality is that , far from being an uprating over and above other increases , this is yet another real terms decrease in students ' real incomes . |
| 17 | Over and above general considerations about the desirability of taking history seriously , there is a particular reason why an historical , or at least a diachronic , perspective is appropriate in the present case . |
| 18 | There are no extra charges over and above normal banking charges for maintaining a currency account . |
| 19 | The technical department provided a base for him in order that he could pursue Technical Studies over and above normal classes . |
| 20 | The Income & Growth PEP invests exclusively in the Capital House Income & growth Unit Trust which invests in UK companies with good growth prospects and above average yields . |
| 21 | A pilot scheme , using one welfare rights worker , indicated the potential of a specialist approach to welfare rights which concentrated solely on the needs of people with learning difficulties : it raised an extra £20,000 over and above existing benefits . |
| 22 | There will be no immediate or automatic resource transfers to the LDCs over and above existing levels of aid provided by the North . |
| 23 | But the notion of an ‘ appeal ’ , of a direct address to the French people — over and above existing intermediaries , authorities , parliaments and parties — has a long tradition in France . |
| 24 | There is increasing pressure on the popular mountains of Snowdonia National Park , and damage to fragile areas from competitive and sponsored events over and above existing informal recreation use is increasing . |
| 25 | The point is , to what extent is the abuse of women and men as workers over and above capitalist exploitation in a particular society more characteristic inside than outside of TNCs ? |
| 26 | The Birmingham case differed from the Guildford one , he said , with evidence over and above uncorroborated statements . |
| 27 | On insurance business the bank now makes provision where necessary for the estimated amount required over and above unearned premiums to meet future claims and related expenses . |
| 28 | The extra cash help will come from the Bellwin scheme , under which the Government automatically picks up 85 per cent of the bill for disasters over and above initial spending by councils . |
| 29 | Ministers pledged extra help for up to ten million needy pensioners and families over and above inflation-linked benefits . |
| 30 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |