Example sentences of "[verb] from above " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let your head float upwards from your shoulders as if it was being lifted from above . |
| 2 | It was raining harder then ever by now , but could all the water in my excavation have come from above ? |
| 3 | Even if the lead has come from above , from state elites , France since the 1970S is a more communications-conscious society than such a prognosis suggests . |
| 4 | About half an hour later , when the formation was patrolling over Luqa at 20,000 feet , they were suddenly attacked from above and astern by six Bf109Es . |
| 5 | Senior union leaders , often powerful figures in the Francoist political system , were nominated from above , or chosen in elections under ministerial control . |
| 6 | Secondly , some change may be organised from above in order to encourage agricultural productivity and curb social injustice . |
| 7 | EXPERIMENTAL investigations of convecting , particle-laden fluids show two regimes for convection driven by cooling from above . |
| 8 | Grit swirled like drifting snow under the lorries and dropped from above , but at body height , behind the vehicle , it was much more calm . |
| 9 | Not only are they going to find themselves deliberately and actively squeezed from above and below by the very organisation , the ATP Tour , which is supposed to be protecting and encouraging them but they still have to compete against exhibition events , with open cheque books , for a handful of top players . |
| 10 | Last month , William Tribe , a British lecturer at Sarajevo university , confirmed that the Oriental Institute was shelled from above and totally destroyed . |
| 11 | The industrial revolution spawned the rise and expansion of the middle class to the point where it was cordially loathed from above and despised or aspired to from beneath . |
| 12 | Here we extend the results of experiments on convection in a suspension cooled from above . |
| 13 | We envisage a convecting magma chamber of height H , cooled from above . |
| 14 | A flat fluid layer is heated from below and cooled from above : this represents the Earth 's atmosphere heated by the ground 's absorption of sunlight and losing heat into space . |
| 15 | In itself , the reform suffered from a number of insuperable flaws : designed from above , it had a tiny support base in the heavily decimated Christian Democrat Party and was drawn up without consultation or reference to El Salvador 's land tenure patterns . |
| 16 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 17 | The man must have been shot from above at close range as he emerged from under the scaffolding . |
| 18 | ‘ This would be consistent with the victim having been shot from above and slightly behind . |
| 19 | In the ‘ Shadomaster ’ , samples are placed on a viewing stage and illuminated from above with a quartz-halogen projection lamp and a condenser . |
| 20 | As a mechanical filter , the NBS is 100 per cent efficient , a glass of water collected from above the media being completely free of suspended solids . |
| 21 | Out on to the stones of the terrace there fell a thick metal spike , not at all dissimilar to the blood-smeared one on which Lord Woodleigh had not fallen , out of sight for a few vital minutes from anyone looking from above . |
| 22 | In practice this theory led , in British primary schools , to a fashion for so-called ‘ discovery methods ’ of learning , and a strong reaction against any teaching that was imposed from above , including , especially , any kind of rote learning . |
| 23 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the reforms which had been implemented up to 1990 did not emerge from discussions between the communities concerned and the government but have been imposed from above . |
| 25 | Hierarchy is not imposed from above , then ‘ but demanded from below : a fact that many theorists of class-conflict are powerless to understand and incompetent , at times , even to remark . |
| 26 | They are not imposed from above nor was the consent of the top floor or the company 's famed Executive Committee apparently even sought . |
| 27 | This limited degree of representation was in an important sense imposed from above , rather than actively won through struggle from below , in the same way that the 1947 Constitution was imposed by the US occupation . |
| 28 | Like the changes following the restoration of the Emperor in 1868 or the 1890 constitution , the new structure was imposed from above . |
| 29 | The spirituality can not be imposed from above . |
| 30 | Let us investigate the behaviour of this model by first considering the manager 's problem in the absence of a constraint imposed from above . |