1.   Above that is a thin veneer of hard cases, who continue offending into their twenties.

2.   He is of above average intelligence.

3.   In order to be a pilot you need to be of above average intelligence.

4.   Many of these students are of above average ability.

5.   Above the doors is a bronze, openwork screen.

6.   This recalls the auxiliary use of need in questions, and indeed and above are equivalent to Why need we bother?

7.   And above both was a picture of a young girl with angel wings, carrying a guitar.

8.   And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear.

9.   And still above town are the ruins of the old Dalton Vocational School, once compared to the Tuskegee Institute.

10.   And two floors above him is the abandoned office of the budget director, Leonard Hellenbrand, who entered an early retirement program and left last month.