Example sentences of "over and above [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice was one ‘ to be discouraged ’ , though the Court sympathized with the magistrates ’ ‘ uphill task of dealing with literally hundreds of cases over and above their normal list ’ . |
| 2 | The charges related to extra inducements made to players over and above their club wages , an area of football so steeped in secrecy and subterfuge , that the problem is unlikely to go away . |
| 3 | A few salient juxtapositions would confer upon words a new relational potency over and above their semantic directedness to the external world . |
| 4 | ‘ In particular , over and above their local roles , councils are located and locate themselves in what may be termed the ‘ national local government system ’ ' ( Dunleavy , 1980a , p. 105 ) . |
| 5 | The Chinese currently spend 10 to 20 per cent over and above their capital outlay on servicing their new computers over three years compared with just three per cent in the US . |
| 6 | The main objectives of the research are to estimate the total compliance costs of personal income tax and capital gains tax in the UK , ie the costs incurred by taxpayers over and above their tax liability . |
| 7 | Much of what has been deduced about the institutionalized authority held by bishops in the late fifth and early sixth century , over and above their canonical jurisdiction , depends on episcopal epitaphs : it is not easy to distinguish fact from topos in such documents . |
| 8 | Extra supplies over and above what has been contracted from Algeria will be necessary over the next decade , partly due to increased demand and partly due to possibly reduced supply from the Netherlands , this contract running out in 1992 . |
| 9 | It is all very well to hark back and praise what used to be then , over and above what is today , just because the aura of a past age hangs round it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bringing a ritual element into the home implies doing something over and above what is physically necessary . |
| 12 | After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in . |
| 13 | ‘ Honours should be awarded on merit for exceptional achievement or exceptional service , over and above what normally might be expected . |
| 14 | 1.3 Voluntary activities : There are some activities in which teachers engage over and above what shall be contractually required . |
| 15 | And something enveloped me , something that was all ready for my measurements , like a suit or a uniform , over and above what I wore , and lined with grief . |
| 16 | Erm now one of the things that the tenants ' action group asked us about initially when they asked us to get in involved in the , in the advice sessions in the flats , was whether or not the tenants would be able to claim additional compensation , over and above what was already being offered . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I do know that Council do pay for two extra cuts over and above what the Cou County Council have paid for . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An allowance from her father over and above her paltry salary enabled her to buy these commodities whenever , and indeed wherever , they were available . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That in turn is simply ( but not uncontroversially ) defined : the buyer is paying for the future flows of cash that the firm is expected to generate , over and above its costs . |
| 23 | The Israel Bonds Organisation is to sell an extra $100 million in bonds over and above its regular sales as seed money for the project . |
| 24 | Thus , in 1979–80 a primary school of 210 children from 113 families raised £8970 over and above its capitation — an expenditure per child from non public funds of £42.71 per year ( £1 per child per school week ) . |
| 25 | Consequential loss can be where delay or loss of a letter or package could involve you in additional expense over and above its actual value . |
| 26 | Over and above its propositional organization in terms of elements such as subject/object and agent/patient , a clause also has an interactional organization which reflects the addresser/addressee relationship . |
| 27 | This has involved non-recurrent additions of £2m in 1991–2 , and £1.5m in 1992–3 and 1993–4 over and above its recurrent baseline of £3m . |
| 28 | Most of what Aunt Lavvy does for me , she does from choice — over and above my allowance , that is , which is held in trust . ’ |
| 29 | It is in this prayerful meditation that mystics say that they receive an illumination of the reality of God over and above anything they can reach by their own efforts . |
| 30 | social life over and above it , as a sort of relax , you know , |