Example sentences of "over and above [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By providing leadership , a manager should be able to use the capabilities of subordinates to better effect , ie leadership is the ‘ influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with the routine directives of the organisation ’ ( Katz and Kahn : The Social Psychology of Organisations ) . |
| 2 | A pilot scheme , using one welfare rights worker , indicated the potential of a specialist approach to welfare rights which concentrated solely on the needs of people with learning difficulties : it raised an extra £20,000 over and above existing benefits . |
| 3 | There will be no immediate or automatic resource transfers to the LDCs over and above existing levels of aid provided by the North . |
| 4 | But the notion of an ‘ appeal ’ , of a direct address to the French people — over and above existing intermediaries , authorities , parliaments and parties — has a long tradition in France . |
| 5 | There is increasing pressure on the popular mountains of Snowdonia National Park , and damage to fragile areas from competitive and sponsored events over and above existing informal recreation use is increasing . |
| 6 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 7 | The point is , to what extent is the abuse of women and men as workers over and above capitalist exploitation in a particular society more characteristic inside than outside of TNCs ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The reality is that , far from being an uprating over and above other increases , this is yet another real terms decrease in students ' real incomes . |
| 10 | There are no extra charges over and above normal banking charges for maintaining a currency account . |
| 11 | The technical department provided a base for him in order that he could pursue Technical Studies over and above normal classes . |
| 12 | For classifications involve considerations of reason and policy over and above mere empirical data . |
| 13 | So what is there to linguistic meaning , over and above mere causation ? |
| 14 | Each year , industry spends at least £125 million on charitable activities over and above straightforward donations . |
| 15 | Over and above general considerations about the desirability of taking history seriously , there is a particular reason why an historical , or at least a diachronic , perspective is appropriate in the present case . |
| 16 | The Birmingham case differed from the Guildford one , he said , with evidence over and above uncorroborated statements . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lyons boldly lists the following ( 1977a : 574 ) , over and above universal principles of logic and language usage : ( i ) knowledge of role and status ( where role covers both role in the speech event , as speaker or addressee , and social role , and status covers notions of relative social standing ) , ( ii ) knowledge of spatial and temporal location , ( iii ) knowledge of formality level , ( iv ) knowledge of the medium ( roughly the code or style appropriate to a channel , like the distinction between written and spoken varieties of a language ) , ( v ) knowledge of appropriate subject matter , ( vi ) knowledge of appropriate province ( or domain determining the register of a language ) . |
| 19 | Ministers pledged extra help for up to ten million needy pensioners and families over and above inflation-linked benefits . |
| 20 | The extra cash help will come from the Bellwin scheme , under which the Government automatically picks up 85 per cent of the bill for disasters over and above initial spending by councils . |
| 21 | Most people have considerable leeway as to how they spend their money over and above basic subsistence requirements . |
| 22 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |