Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over and above " 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 | Thus , the maximum saving is 15% in respect of the portion of income over and above the aggregate of the 25% rate band ( currently £23,700 ) and allowance ( personal allowance , married couples allowance ) and interest charges and personal pension payments . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
5 | Section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977 permits an employee inventor to apply to either tribunal for a single or periodic award of compensation over and above the salary he is already earning . |
6 | By 1910 the inhabitants of Britain consumed a million tons of meat over and above home produce . |
7 | Normally there 's no problem filling all the orders I get from the Heymouth hotels and others in the area , with dozens of braces over and above that to send to Edinburgh , Glasgow and London . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | However , it is believed to be in the region of £15 million a year for the world-wide rights , plus a percentage of profits over and above that figure . |
10 | Although the [ draft ] FRS requires appropriations of profit over and above the dividends payable to be made in some circumstances in respect of non-equity shares it does not affect the total amount of distributable profits . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | As well as publicizing the activities of the Library the Friends contribute money towards purchases over and above those which can be made from the College funds . |
13 | Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count . |
14 | The Birmingham case differed from the Guildford one , he said , with evidence over and above uncorroborated statements . |
15 | Attitudes to the task ( R.W. Anderson , 1978 ) , stress ( Gerver , 1976 ) , conditions ( Parsons , 1978 ) and actual language knowledge ( Longley , 1978 ) all have additional effects on the interpretation , and have to be taken into account over and above the actual process if we are to consider the training implications . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Therefore , exposure to concentrations over and above the TLV may be permitted where the number of hours of exposure is less than those referred to above . |
19 | OEMs will have to pay USL $60,000 to get the source code in-house and another $25,000 in sublicensing fees to ship to customers over and above paying OSF $150,000 for a DCE license . |
20 | By contrast both productive opportunities yield positive NPVs ; that is , they provide a return to investors over and above that offered by the capital market . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | When you get to vehicles over and above that , we run into problems where people that have |
23 | Notice that this test is equivalent to testing whether the anticipated component of monetary growth has an additional effect on unemployment over and above the effect of the . |
24 | Special thanks to Bing and Robin for their organisation of the event , Jimmy and Peter for the photos and video , Catering staff and to Transport Section for services over and above the call of duty . |
25 | The proposition , in paras 1.7–1.10 of the appellant 's comments , that the margin above calculated need was set at 60% over and above that calculated to provide ‘ at any one moment , a five year supply of readily available private housing land ’ is a grossly misleading account of the provisions made in the approved Structure Plan . |
26 | He had certainly been paid one by Grunte over and above his salary , which was met by the local Tory Association . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | The money paid by taxpayers over and above government expenditure merely returns to taxpayers again ( albeit differently distributed ) . |
29 | Spending on social security has increased by 41% over and above inflation — to well over £1 billion per week . |