Example sentences of "[was/were] above [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever social class we ascribe to Benjamin the Silversmith will be open to some degree of misinterpretation ; it has been said that ‘ The sixty years of Queen Victoria 's reign were above all the sixty years of the middle-class man ’ , and we could apply that statement to our man 's ability to consolidate and improve upon his standing in society . |
| 2 | It was impossible to conduct a real argument with the Sechem because they were above all the interpreters and arbiters of the Yasa , the authority on the law to whom men turned when they were in dispute . |
| 3 | Gladstone 's case for a balanced budget was above all a moral not a technical one . |
| 4 | She was above all a most formidable female . |
| 5 | By then the conventional restraints of courtesy were felt to have had their day , and outlived it : the New Critic was above all a rebel , even a terrorist . |
| 6 | This drop in mortality was above all a drop in infant mortality . |
| 7 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 8 | The raw material of his experience was transmuted into story — for whether he was working in the poetic or prose medium , Masefield was above all a story-teller . |
| 9 | Basil was above all a seeing person of sensibility and perception , responding spontaneously to every aspect of the visual world . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 11 | Ho seems to have remained in Kunming until 1945 where he cultivated the OSS , portraying himself as a Communist who was above all a nationalist . |
| 12 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 13 | The Damascene geographer al-Umari confirms what is implied by the tomb : that Delhi , for all its bazaars and shrines and fine architecture , was above all a barracks : ‘ The army [ of Delhi ] consists of 900,000 horsemen . |
| 14 | They rested secure behind their trade barriers , and it was above all a British initiative that led to the creation of the single European market . |
| 15 | Eden was above all a diplomat of the classical school , though one whose command of his emotions was not always what it should have been . |
| 16 | Memorable because it posits the unorthodox but believable idea that for one lower middle class pubescent Brit kid the period between 1939 –'45; was above all an EXCITING time . |
| 17 | He must try to explain to them that Sylvie 's suicide was above all an appropriate finale to her life . |
| 18 | As Jeffrey Weeks has pointed out , for Ellis and his fellow socialist Edward Carpenter , sexual equality was above all an ethical concern , involving equal recognition for the work women did as wives and mothers . |
| 19 | While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation . |
| 20 | There he was above all an observer of life , carrying on — forgive the pun those observations into the characters he played . |
| 21 | It was above all the white middle class who benefited from a free health service , earnings-related pensions , and the growth of larger secondary schools . |
| 22 | But what held the audience 's rapt attention from beginning to end was above all the genius of Verdi himself and the superlative grandeur of his music . |
| 23 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 24 | Yet they were surely correct in their fundamental premise , that what distinguished the twelfth century from its predecessors was above all the proliferation of new political communities , juridically defined by their consuetudines or coutumes . |
| 25 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 26 | It is quite obvious that the image of an unbridled libertine is a total myth : Lloyd George was above all the complete professional politician dedicated to public objectives , not to private lust … |
| 27 | It was above all the smile of dramatic irony , of those who have privileged information . |
| 28 | The spectacle of the café-concert was above all the home of disorder , and particularly of the disruption of the orderly bourgeois habitus . |
| 29 | The Crown 's interest was above all the defence of the land rather than of villagers ' property rights . |
| 30 | Here , however , it was above all the labour of unmarried young women as living-in farm servants which was sought . |