Example sentences of "over [coord] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By providing leadership , a manager should be able to use the capabilities of subordinates to better effect , ie leadership is the ‘ influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with the routine directives of the organisation ’ ( Katz and Kahn : The Social Psychology of Organisations ) . |
| 2 | A pilot scheme , using one welfare rights worker , indicated the potential of a specialist approach to welfare rights which concentrated solely on the needs of people with learning difficulties : it raised an extra £20,000 over and above existing benefits . |
| 3 | There will be no immediate or automatic resource transfers to the LDCs over and above existing levels of aid provided by the North . |
| 4 | But the notion of an ‘ appeal ’ , of a direct address to the French people — over and above existing intermediaries , authorities , parliaments and parties — has a long tradition in France . |
| 5 | There is increasing pressure on the popular mountains of Snowdonia National Park , and damage to fragile areas from competitive and sponsored events over and above existing informal recreation use is increasing . |
| 6 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 7 | In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment . |
| 8 | There were dangers in this silence — Wilson well understood that the steady remittance of funds for the care of Oreste constituted a claim on him over and above that of natural parentage — but she thought them worth risking . |
| 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 | Their deeper action over and above that of repeated low potency centesimals seems plain and although I have no evidence I feel that high centesimals would probably have aggravated and made more difficult the roundabout route which we followed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Other activities of a creative sort are ones that are built in over and above that . |
| 14 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 15 | Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year . |
| 16 | Current which is over and above that required by the load is represented on the waveform for I L by the cross-hatched area . |
| 17 | They are paid to compensate for any additional costs incurred in paying for accommodation in the overseas location over and above that which would be incurred at home . |
| 18 | In general terms , special damage is damage over and above that suffered by the public at large or some significant section of it affected by the decision . |
| 19 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 20 | Any private individual who has suffered particular damage as a result of the nuisance ( i.e. damage over and above that suffered by the public as a whole ) may bring a civil action in tort to seek the abatement of the nuisance and recover damages for loss already sustained . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No further expense over and above that was incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of surplus places to the taxpayers ' children . |
| 23 | Therefore the new information contained in the price of a futures contract , over and above that contained in the current spot price , is the value of the cash flows from owning the index between now and time T ( Carlton , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | The widening of the basis during the crash , over and above that accounted for by stale prices , is attributed to restrictions and delays in the trading of shares . |
| 25 | The stores are then allocated a minimum number of each title , according to their size and market , with the larger stores taking an amount over and above that , to be decided by the Penguin representatives and the stores ' buyers . |
| 26 | ( 1 ) Greatly increased administrative workload — Even with the existing generous management and computerisation allowances , fundholding involves general practitioners in considerable extra administrative work , over and above that already entailed by the new contract . |
| 27 | The review of RAWP also examined the use of census based socioeconomic variables ( so called ‘ social deprivation ’ factors ) to explain variation in health service use over and above that associated with the standardised mortality ratio . |
| 28 | This means that the outgoing particles have an extra degree of randomness or unpredictability over and above that usually associated with the uncertainty principle . |
| 29 | The emission from black holes has an added degree of uncertainty , or unpredictability , over and above that normally associated with quantum mechanics . |
| 30 | As my Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) said , there are other benefits over and above that for example , the early retirement pension , the ill-health retirement pension , the lump sum on retirement , insurance so that any surviving dependants will receive the pension rights of the deceased , and so on . |