Example sentences of "and above the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 2 | When the officer said , ‘ You will be charged with sedition , over and above the mobbing , but in certain circumstances that might not be pressed , ’ Cameron distressed himself by making a small , indefinite sound which could well have been taken for agreement . |
| 3 | That was why he promoted the idea of the Grand Slam Trust Fund , an opportunity for the four Grand Slam tournaments , as the pinnacles of the game , to make a major contribution to the grass roots on a global basis , over and above the enormous funding they provide for tennis in their own countries . |
| 4 | He added that people usually pale below the eyes and above the cheek bones , have many dreams including nightmares and hallucinations , suffer disturbed sleep especially at full moon , get up tired and listless , are prone to attacks of flu , and are driven to drink , drugs and heavy smoking . |
| 5 | That culture presupposed a high degree of what E. D. Hirsch calls ‘ cultural literacy ’ , particularly in respect of English history and the Christian and classical heritages , requiring competence in Latin and at least one modern language , as well as wide reading in English Literature over and above the demands of the curriculum . |
| 6 | It wants the Interim Advisory Committee , which will determine the profession 's pay increase for the 1990-91 year , to be allowed to remedy the error by using new money over and above the £600m limit the Government has set on the global sum available for any increase . |
| 7 | It has the text of Isaiah 31 : 5 , ‘ As birds flying , so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem ’ ; and above the city and cathedral of Durham an airman rides upon an eagle , protected from above by a winged seraph . |
| 8 | It may be argued that the King had a special responsibility to preserve the agreement , in that , in a country such as Britain without a codified constitution , there is no reference point , no pouvoir neutre , over and above the exigencies of party politics . |
| 9 | But it was the rise over and above the increase in real incomes which caused most grief for inflation and the payments balance . |
| 10 | In previous recessions , governments have added to the budget deficit , over and above the automatic increase caused by the business cycle . |
| 11 | He also found that Locke , once having made a similar distinction , provided no good reason for belief in a world over and above the ideas we have of it . |
| 12 | And then at last , the summit , with the cloud shadows scudding across the huge curved expanse and a band of sea which was always surprisingly broad ‘ and above the sea the line of the Downs , so noble and so bare ’ . |
| 13 | It is accepted that not every ‘ foul ’ committed in breach of the rules amounts to a crime , and it seems to be assumed that players do , and may lawfully , consent to physical force over and above the minimum permitted by the rules . |
| 14 | Another justification for having separate ‘ public order ’ offences is that group activities of this kind may , over and above the features discussed above , constitute a special threat to law enforcement and the political system . |
| 15 | I despise the idea and practice of blood sports , but this violent reaction threw up a profile of wildly inconsistent attitudes which puzzles me ; how is it that fox hunting is legal and fishing is the most popular outdoor recreational activity in Britain , yet badger killing invokes a desire for public retribution — lynch mob fever , almost — over and above the punishment of the courts ? |
| 16 | At the time I am speaking of , over and above the crofters with their tiny , and often sub-divided , holdings there were several thousand squatters in Lewis . |
| 17 | Your answers will dictate the contents of your tool kit — over and above the essential general-purpose tools described earlier . |
| 18 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 19 | Beyond and above the jolt to the national memory , there was for me a special exhumation of the past . |
| 20 | For the experiment , eight temporary space lights were installed in the Chamber and the strip lights under the galleries and above the Speaker 's Chair were upgraded . |
| 21 | Its clock-tower , supported on the station 's porte cochère , and dome were decorated with large female figures on each corner and above the clock itself . |
| 22 | The hotel bar was a shadowy place with pink lights on the tables and above the bar . |
| 23 | Ribbon and spindle bombs both owe their shapes to events taking place within and above the volcanic vents , but other shaping processes also operate . |
| 24 | The details of this highly publicised scheme are well documented ( eg Challis , 1988 ) , its main features being : the employment of social workers as case managers , with case loads of 25 to 30 dependent elderly people , and with control over a decentralised budget to enable additional facilities or care ( in the shape of specially recruited local helpers ) to be purchased over and above the receipt of normal services . |
| 25 | At the back of the church behind the pulpit were choir room , vestry and toilets and above the vestry a committee room . |
| 26 | From such a position , deviant behaviour could be extremely good or heroic behaviour , such as risking one 's life to help others or showing courage over and above the line of duty . |
| 27 | It had drawn to a halt , and above the slapping of the water Lefevre could discern obscure sounds of commotion as the vehicle rocked on its springs . |
| 28 | The commission of a public nuisance can only be tortious however where an individual can prove he has suffered damage over and above the rest of the community and that such damage is direct and substantial . |
| 29 | It failed because the frequency and intensity of the odour , which constituted the nuisance , was over and above the ‘ general background of oily smells ’ , and had not unlike these general smells , continued for anything approaching 20 years . |
| 30 | 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 . |