Example sentences of "but over and above " in BNC.

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1 But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism .
2 It was difficult to be absolutely sure , but over and above the sound of the torrential downpour outside she was sure she could detect the steady drip of water from inside .
3 But over and above this is a terrible fact that despite what they are already putting up with , they 've got more they 've got the seventeen percent coming on their .
4 But over and above that , you ca n't be expecting nurses to , presuming you 'd get more , to take over home care duties .
5 But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did .
6 I just do n't think the two things match , but over and above that it 's totally unnecessary and nobody would put a gipsy site on one of the nicest avenues leading into a town .
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