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 .
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