Example sentences of "over and above [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money paid by taxpayers over and above government expenditure merely returns to taxpayers again ( albeit differently distributed ) . |
| 2 | Over and above country risk associated with bank loans granted to governments and state enterprises there exists an additional risk — sovereign risk . |
| 3 | By 1910 the inhabitants of Britain consumed a million tons of meat over and above home produce . |
| 4 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 5 | ‘ At a 40 p.c. marginal rate of tax the real yield over and above inflation is 3¼ p.c . |
| 6 | One could talk about many other areas of improvement : the huge 68 per cent increase in real spending ( over and above inflation ) by Government on community care services since 1979 ; the 29 per cent increase in real spending on the whole range of benefits for elderly people ; or , in a completely different field , the improvements in public transport which have , for example , seen the number of rail passengers increase by 14 per cent . |
| 7 | Spending on social security has increased by 41% over and above inflation — to well over £1 billion per week . |
| 8 | more , over and above inflation , than in 1979 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Parrots have an advantage over and above chimpanzees in that they can , of course , imitate human sounds . |
| 12 | Such investment over and above plan targets must have speeded up modernization . |
| 13 | The purpose is to determine which treatments produce effects over and above placebo levels . |
| 14 | The association also calculated that , over and above income support , the same claimant would have received £360 in housing benefit , on a typical rent of £30 a week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When development is used in the literature on children 's language it usually implies acknowledgement of processes over and above learning ( for example , Piaget 1970 ) and an underlying continuity with respect to earlier-occurring relatively simple abilities and later , more complex abilities . |
| 17 | Recently , the giving of business gifts has declined , as employers have placed restrictions upon what their employees may receive , and the Institute of Purchasing and Supply has published a ‘ blacklist ’ of companies operating what they consider to be gift schemes over and above items of nominal value . |
| 18 | Over and above resource problems , however , there are several more fundamental ideological and structural problems . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's no question the Indianapolis 500 is the biggest race in the world , period , over and above Formula One , ’ he told reporters . |
| 20 | Personal pensions over and above APPs may be taken in part as a capital sum and at any age between 50 and 75 ( see Wilson and Davies , 1988 , Chapter 4 ) . |
| 21 | So you nee you 've got to create or preserve a group who have a surplus over and above subsistence . |