Example sentences of "and above the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the election campaign threatens to engulf us , think through the trivia and above the bickering to the real values of the Conservatives compared to the phoney , intrusive dictums of the leaners to the Left . |
| 2 | It therefore involves an authority outside and above the order it establishes . |
| 3 | Again , does " If it were raining the balcony would be wet " mean something about other ways that the world would be different , over and above the balcony 's being wet , if there were the difference that it was raining ? |
| 4 | Expressed in the simplest terms , however , normal flight depends on the creation by a propeller-like action of the wings of a zone of low pressure in front of and above the insect and one of high pressure behind and below it , the consequent movement being a resultant of the thrust provided by the insect and forces due to gravity and air-resistance . |
| 5 | Thus far they had found nothing , and above the bed of the river their searchings were stirring up a cloudy precipitate of mud as the white waters gushed across the weir . |
| 6 | over and above the cost of living in the past 12 years . |
| 7 | Poor things , with their cocktails , Ianthe thought , remembering her uncle 's scorn , some of their faces under the elegant hats and above the fur coats were kindly , even noble . |
| 8 | English constitutional law recognizes no entity , such as ‘ the State ’ , over and above the government of the day , to which the term ‘ the Crown ’ could apply . |
| 9 | Section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977 permits an employee inventor to apply to either tribunal for a single or periodic award of compensation over and above the salary he is already earning . |
| 10 | And at Wyvis Hall , below the woods and above the river , with the nearest road half a mile away and the nearest house twice as far as that , total silence prevailed . |
| 11 | For the experiment , eight temporary space lights were installed in the Chamber and the strip lights under the galleries and above the Speaker 's Chair were upgraded . |
| 12 | In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . |
| 13 | The Luftwaffe came back to have a go at Chelsea and South Fulham , and above the noise of their engines we heard , for the first time ‘ Salt Peter Bluey , ’ as our nurses called him , give them hell 's delight with his raucous bark . |
| 14 | No one was in sight , but somebody was whistling cheerfully , and above the noise of hammering a radio belted out pop music . |
| 15 | Had the national insurance pensions been increased by an additional £5 a week over and above the inflation rate , and supplementary benefit uprated by the rate of inflation only , then virtually all of the 1.4 million claimants would no longer be entitled to supplementary benefit . |
| 16 | The anterior or basalar sclerites are never more than two in number , and lie just above the episternum , while the posterior or subalar sclerite is almost always single and lies behind the pleural wing process and above the epimeron . |
| 17 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 18 | to say that in fairness to them , so what we would respectfully submit is that your Lordship having assessed the damages and erm , together with interest other than court of protection costs that the figure which we had mentioned and , and adjourn the matter for consideration of a structured settlement erm and that 's the first figure erm , that , the , the second thing , is that there is money in court er we would ask for a direction of the balance of the money , the balance over and above the money in court which is an extra three hundred and six thousand , three hundred and forty pounds at the present stage be brought into court within a reasonable time which we would note is fourteen days , maybe the defendant would ask longer , we have n't discussed it . |
| 19 | The hotel bar was a shadowy place with pink lights on the tables and above the bar . |
| 20 | Over and above the compensation which people would , would get anyway , i in this situation ? |
| 21 | The details of this highly publicised scheme are well documented ( eg Challis , 1988 ) , its main features being : the employment of social workers as case managers , with case loads of 25 to 30 dependent elderly people , and with control over a decentralised budget to enable additional facilities or care ( in the shape of specially recruited local helpers ) to be purchased over and above the receipt of normal services . |
| 22 | This often requires analysis of parts of words — the elements in a compound like dog-sled , or the added meaning attributable to the suffix -er in opener compared to the verb open — over and above the sense of each word . |
| 23 | But it was the rise over and above the increase in real incomes which caused most grief for inflation and the payments balance . |
| 24 | It was an old woman 's room , and above the smell of beeswax and the faint summer scent from a bowl of pot-pourri on the Pembroke table , his sensitive nose could detect a whiff of the sour smell of old age . |
| 25 | If given good conditions , most plants will grow erect and above the water surface and even flower . |
| 26 | At the back of the church behind the pulpit were choir room , vestry and toilets and above the vestry a committee room . |
| 27 | Penson gave David Davies the job of preparing the foundations , embankment and approach road for the iron bridge over the Severn in the ‘ top sawyer 's ’ home town of Llandinam and was so pleased with his work that he recommended payment of an additional £15 over and above the contract price agreed . |
| 28 | Behind and above the platform , like cherubim around the head of the risen Lord , sat the members of the Party 's national executive committee , spiced with a scattering of MPs . |
| 29 | The group has a fairly informal basis , but we feel there must be various ways of forming the group to mitigate the members from losses incurred over and above the level of liability insurance that may have to met in the event of a very serious accident . |
| 30 | This would agree a price for the basic service , with extra money for extraordinary items ( like travel and accommodation in the Gulf ) and additional money for increased amounts of news coverage over and above the norm . |