Example sentences of "[noun] over and above " in BNC.

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61 Micrografx also produces a customized PostScript printer driver , which also offers features over and above the Windows generic version , but it ai n't cheap — it will set you back £100 .
62 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 .
63 Spending on social security has increased by 41% over and above inflation — to well over £1 billion per week .
64 The review of RAWP also examined the use of census based socioeconomic variables ( so called ‘ social deprivation ’ factors ) to explain variation in health service use over and above that associated with the standardised mortality ratio .
65 There will be no immediate or automatic resource transfers to the LDCs over and above existing levels of aid provided by the North .
66 An allowance from her father over and above her paltry salary enabled her to buy these commodities whenever , and indeed wherever , they were available .
67 For classifications involve considerations of reason and policy over and above mere empirical data .
68 The commission of a public nuisance can only be tortious however where an individual can prove he has suffered damage over and above the rest of the community and that such damage is direct and substantial .
69 In general terms , special damage is damage over and above that suffered by the public at large or some significant section of it affected by the decision .
70 Any private individual who has suffered particular damage as a result of the nuisance ( i.e. damage over and above that suffered by the public as a whole ) may bring a civil action in tort to seek the abatement of the nuisance and recover damages for loss already sustained .
71 How can high-bay warehousing be classified in order to identify different degrees of risk which result from equipment layout and complexity over and above the question of differing degrees of combustibility ( this aspect being adequately covered in the Fire Offices ' Committee Rules ) .
72 The linguistic practices we have been considering have a function over and above simply ‘ reflecting cultural beliefs ’ about the inferiority and sexual nature of women .
73 There are no recondite semantic entities over and above such similarities ; and if there are no entities , there is no identity either .
74 The Admiralty agreed in respect of all such vessels to authorise a flat rate increase of £pound1 a month for all seamen over and above the wages set out in the union 's official wage book for 1913 ; the NSFU agreed to " use its utmost endeavour to furnish men required at such rates " .
75 As Durkheim and others have tried to demonstrate , these relationships seem to have an independent existence over and above the individuals who compose them .
76 Parrots have an advantage over and above chimpanzees in that they can , of course , imitate human sounds .
77 When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area .
78 number of days per institution and then the weighting over and above that is on the number of pupils , mm .
79 Thus , the maximum saving is 15% in respect of the portion of income over and above the aggregate of the 25% rate band ( currently £23,700 ) and allowance ( personal allowance , married couples allowance ) and interest charges and personal pension payments .
80 That culture presupposed a high degree of what E. D. Hirsch calls ‘ cultural literacy ’ , particularly in respect of English history and the Christian and classical heritages , requiring competence in Latin and at least one modern language , as well as wide reading in English Literature over and above the demands of the curriculum .
81 In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment .
82 But it was the rise over and above the increase in real incomes which caused most grief for inflation and the payments balance .
83 By displaying the hierarchical and relative structure of the classification the user can search at a subject level over and above the strict document level .
84 optometrists registered with family health service authorities over and above the 1979 figure .
85 " Buyers should be made to pay a sustainability premium for the products over and above the market prices , " said Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik at a meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organisation .
86 It seems not unreasonable to argue that in a modern primary school all staff , and especially those with formal responsibilities of any kind over and above the class-teacher role , should have clear and properly negotiated job specifications .
87 It wants the Interim Advisory Committee , which will determine the profession 's pay increase for the 1990-91 year , to be allowed to remedy the error by using new money over and above the £600m limit the Government has set on the global sum available for any increase .
88 Most people have considerable leeway as to how they spend their money over and above basic subsistence requirements .
89 This is to give extra protection over and above that .
90 Proposals over and above the levels so indicated constitute new policy proposals .
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