Example sentences of "over [coord] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and above the on-site team are service and branch managers who will visit premises on a weekly basis to ensure that they are being cleaned in accordance with the client 's needs , and they can be contacted twenty four hours a day , whether at home or work , by radio pagers . |
| 2 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 3 | But the EQ as measured is probably telling us something about how much ‘ computing power ’ an animal has in its head , over and above the irreducible minimum of computing power needed for the routine running of its large or small body . |
| 4 | There are , however , several sites which apparently came to depend upon a range of processing and manufacturing activities , over and above the normal level of economic provision . |
| 5 | We are looking to the ILEA and Sports Council to support this , but a small charge might be necessary as this day is over and above the normal QT days . |
| 6 | Their pricing will initially reflect a premium over and above the normal price of a CD-A player but it is likely that this will progressively be reduced . |
| 7 | Rewards are offered to all participants on an equal basis and these rewards are over and above the normal sales compensation . |
| 8 | Making Belfast Work as a super lateral tier of government employed to carry out programmes appears to run over and above the long-term development plans of individual government departments . |
| 9 | But then just looking at Luke actually hurt her , as did the mere sound of his voice , over and above the contemptuous content of what he said . |
| 10 | It seems not unreasonable to argue that in a modern primary school all staff , and especially those with formal responsibilities of any kind over and above the class-teacher role , should have clear and properly negotiated job specifications . |
| 11 | Here , the relationships between managers and workers were tolerant and friendly , and involved loyalties and commitments over and above the mere exchange of wages for work . |
| 12 | Fried rich , in Limited Government : A Comparison , p. 118 , states that such a response is ‘ motivated by the belief that such a constitution , if popularly approved , would give them the right to rule , over and above the mere power to do so ’ . |
| 13 | The temptation to give a lot of negative attention over and above the agreed punisher can be overwhelming . |
| 14 | Under this custom the colt 's owner paid a shilling over and above the actual cost of shoeing so that the men could send out for six pints of beer as a reward for the extra effort involved . |
| 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 | In his ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter the Secretary of State tells us that the uprating of student grants in 1990-91 was over and above the extra money made available through student loans . |
| 17 | Differences may reflect subtleties of attitude ( e.g. , slim/thin , strong-willed/obstinate ) , of register ( e.g. , numerous/many , attempt/try , cop/policeman ) , and of dialect ( e.g. , haystack/hayrick , sack/bag , tap/faucet ) , over and above the various kinds of taxonomic differentiations possible among category labels . |
| 18 | In previous recessions , governments have added to the budget deficit , over and above the automatic increase caused by the business cycle . |
| 19 | optometrists registered with family health service authorities over and above the 1979 figure . |
| 20 | How much additional pension you get depends on the amount of your earnings over and above the lower earnings limit for each complete tax year since April 1978 . |
| 21 | They are therefore in the ideal position to use their knowledge of these resources to provide evaluation , advice and consultancy over and above the straightforward transaction of information and material . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , they were not unaffected by the general prosperity of the district : more than one in three owned goods valued at 40s. or more , suggesting ( over and above the usual affluence ) a wider , more varied range of jobs and responsibilities created by a more developed economy . |
| 23 | The vestry of the City church of St Peter-le-Poore , Broad Street , also had this in mind and , as a result , officials were charging an additional £50 in 1838 for iron coffins deposited in their vaults over and above the standard fee of £1 15s. 2d. as against the extra £20 asked for a lead shell — with all fees double for non-parishioners . |
| 24 | Their press conference at the Balmoral Hotel began with an impromptu showing of a video prepared by the Welsh Institute of Sport which manager Robert Norster said that his charges enjoyed to watch as relaxation ‘ over and above the analytical stuff ! ’ |
| 25 | First production over and above the nominal family unit was free of tax . |
| 26 | Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny . |
| 27 | ( 1 ) A recognised body which is a company limited by shares shall insure with authorised insurers against the losses referred to in paragraph ( 3 ) of this Rule over and above the maximum indemnity provided from time to time by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 28 | This rise in consumption will create a further increase in income in the next period of £1.2 million over and above the initial increase and this in turn will bring forth more consumption spending . |
| 29 | By displaying the hierarchical and relative structure of the classification the user can search at a subject level over and above the strict document level . |
| 30 | In 1992/93 each single person was , for example , given an allowance of 3,445 ; married couples were given an additional allowance of 1,720 over and above the single allowance and pensioners were given even higher allowances . |