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

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1 In what has been called ‘ The Age of Psychology ’ , the development of the individual and his self-fulfilment has been promoted and stressed over and above obligations and duties to marriage partners , children and other relatives .
2 There is the sense here that reason is more than the sum of its parts , and that the serious pursuit of truth can , over time , generate a way of looking at the world and an approach to forming judgements on it that stands over and above any particular truths that may be assimilated on the way .
3 This means that to stand still in terms of health service provision , funding has to increase over and above that for other services .
4 The need to feed over and above the maintenance requirement is linked to the fish 's need to grow and reproduce .
5 I mean they 're not gon na have any information of how much you 've produced over and above your tax .
6 Because innkeepers are under specific duties imposed upon them by the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 and at common law , they in return have certain rights which they may exercise over and above those which proprietors who are not innkeepers may exercise .
7 Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan .
8 But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that .
9 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 .
10 Yes I I would agree with that but I wondered , I think perhaps it should be the finance committee , I mean cos I understood that most of these these items are contained within the existing budget , because I mean the individual committees do have have the power to the monies within their own , and I it has it I would agree with Peter that if we have gone over and above the that the committee were working to but I understood that that was not the case , so I .
11 The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount .
12 In both there is a differentiated level of criticism standing over and above both art and life .
13 1.3 Voluntary activities : There are some activities in which teachers engage over and above what shall be contractually required .
14 We have repeatedly indicated in public expenditure round after public expenditure round that we are increasing over and above inflation substantial resources for the health service — far more even than the right hon. Gentleman dared to promise .
15 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 .
16 With the establishment of colonies as opposed to trading posts , came the need for production and exports over and above what had sustained the earlier economic relationships between the West and the tropics .
17 Anything you do over and above that is up to you . .
18 It was not only the cut of her clothes and the richness of the fabric which were distinctive but she herself possessed a bloom and glow over and above her personal beauty , which were absent from all the other women who were there .
19 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 .
20 But many monetarist writers recognized that deviations from Y * ; and L * ; do in fact occur over and above those attributable to white noise disturbances .
21 On insurance business the bank now makes provision where necessary for the estimated amount required over and above unearned premiums to meet future claims and related expenses .
22 spend over and above what we have already indicated and therefore we oppose the budget that has now been put forward by the other two groups .
23 well I , I anticipated that the management charges would rise over and above inflation and I suggested we should , should not continue with that statement
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