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

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31 We deserve to be punished because we considered ourselves over and above the deceased .
32 The temptation to give a lot of negative attention over and above the agreed punisher can be overwhelming .
33 Attitudes to the task ( R.W. Anderson , 1978 ) , stress ( Gerver , 1976 ) , conditions ( Parsons , 1978 ) and actual language knowledge ( Longley , 1978 ) all have additional effects on the interpretation , and have to be taken into account over and above the actual process if we are to consider the training implications .
34 However , perhaps there is a particular reason ( over and above the a priori possibility of alternative theoretical models ) for denying the relevance of AI ideas to animal psychology ?
35 How much additional pension you get depends on the amount of your earnings over and above the lower earnings limit for each complete tax year since April 1978 .
36 Your employer might decide that he wishes to help you improve your pension by making contributions over and above the statutory national insurance contributions into your pension plan .
37 Over and above the skills required to develop effective joint problem-solving groups , however , trainee consultants also need to become aware of what is involved in setting them up .
38 Nevertheless , they were not unaffected by the general prosperity of the district : more than one in three owned goods valued at 40s. or more , suggesting ( over and above the usual affluence ) a wider , more varied range of jobs and responsibilities created by a more developed economy .
39 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 .
40 Again and again , in the name of public accountability , but often with a barely concealed philistine agenda , the government has demonstrated its lack of faith in intellectual or artistic endeavour over and above the purely functional or business-related .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 Differences may reflect subtleties of attitude ( e.g. , slim/thin , strong-willed/obstinate ) , of register ( e.g. , numerous/many , attempt/try , cop/policeman ) , and of dialect ( e.g. , haystack/hayrick , sack/bag , tap/faucet ) , over and above the various kinds of taxonomic differentiations possible among category labels .
44 Making Belfast Work as a super lateral tier of government employed to carry out programmes appears to run over and above the long-term development plans of individual government departments .
45 Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny .
46 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 ?
47 This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required .
48 Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count .
49 Using an agency can be expensive because the fees they charge , over and above the rent , are usually equivalent to one or two weeks ' rent , plus a substantial deposit .
50 Temporary employees over and above the 200 are simply paid off when work is short .
51 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 .
52 The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises .
53 Proposals over and above the levels so indicated constitute new policy proposals .
54 Over and above the nature of the general economic and social developments , the main reason for this is what can be termed the specificity of cultural goods : that is , the fact that ‘ music can never be just a product ( an exchange value ) , even in its rawest commodity form ; the artistic value of records has an unavoidable complicating effect on their production ’ ( Frith 1983a : 10 ) .
55 Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals .
56 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 " .
57 Fried rich , in Limited Government : A Comparison , p. 118 , states that such a response is ‘ motivated by the belief that such a constitution , if popularly approved , would give them the right to rule , over and above the mere power to do so ’ .
58 The range of key values , divided by the number of addresses to be generated ( the calculation is shown on page 161 ) , will indicate the potential improvement , over and above the synonym percentages predicted by the Poisson distribution , that can be aimed for .
59 Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 .
60 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 .
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