Example sentences of "over and above [pos pn] " 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 | An allowance from her father over and above her paltry salary enabled her to buy these commodities whenever , and indeed wherever , they were available . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Most of what Aunt Lavvy does for me , she does from choice — over and above my allowance , that is , which is held in trust . ’ |
| 17 | If the manager runs a sales team where everyone has the job title ‘ sales executive ’ , then that manager can only manage effectively when his or her team have regard for the manager 's active status over and above his or her overt status . |
| 18 | Endowed , as he was , with a compelling creative genius , he drove himself with little regard for his own health and welfare , contributing ( over and above his journalistic duties ) serial novels , literary and political commentaries , and poems to newspapers , and an increasing flow of scholarly articles and essays to monthly and quarterly journals . |
| 19 | 94 , the plaintiff , a seaman , claimed that the defendant , the captain of his ship , had promised him five guineas over and above his ordinary wages if he would perform some extra work in navigating the ship , the promise having been made , when the ship was in danger , to induce the seamen to exert themselves . |
| 20 | He had certainly been paid one by Grunte over and above his salary , which was met by the local Tory Association . |
| 21 | he does n't get it over and above his current |
| 22 | It does er include a past policy and the Planning Department includes two hundred and forty thousand for erm various statutory fire which seem so any fire growth over and above our list are based on the judgement panel that we are . |
| 23 | Our target is to raise , in cash and in pledges , an additional twenty five million pounds over and above our normal fundraising . |
| 24 | What seems to be missing from the analysis is some measure of how much the savings plan is actually giving you over and above your initial hard earned cash . |
| 25 | I mean they 're not gon na have any information of how much you 've produced over and above your tax . |