Example sentences of "[vb pp] and above " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed the rope through the now open apertures , down into the place where those toffee-brown overcoats had once hung and above them the brown felt hats with their Cambridge-blue ribbons . |
| 2 | The unpainted doors were padlocked and above them he could vaguely make out the name Strauss , the paintwork having been abraded over the years by the weather . |
| 3 | This was particularly important when few persons were able to read and had to depend on what they were told and above all on what they could see . |
| 4 | After 11 years our workforce remains inadequate , blighted and above all , neglected . |
| 5 | But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded , badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade . |
| 6 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |