Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the rest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want the Swiss brown or the rest of the walnut ? |
| 2 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 3 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 5 | Its shares fell 2p to 55p But it was Scottish and the rest of the takeover in-crowd , with new time buyers active , which dominated the day 's trading . |
| 6 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 7 | It is best not to attempt to write this until the rest of the piece is fairly complete . |
| 8 | If pre-marital conceptions are eliminated from the calculation , the social class gradient in the duration of time from marriage to first birth is only half as steep as before , from forty-five months in social class I to twenty-four months in class V. In these respects , as in many others , there seems to be a sharp difference between the behaviour of social class V and the rest of the population . |
| 9 | It would be different if the rest of the sum demanded had been paid . |
| 10 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 11 | He found the number eighty-two close to the top of the street , looking just as derelict as the rest of the tenements on the shabby street . |
| 12 | For example , the Swedes and the Norwegians are seeking to eliminate CFC use by 1995 , and it is possible that the rest of the world could follow suit . |
| 13 | Even so , it took all his self-control not to lose his temper with Madge Grimsilk , for Therese , in the dark sapphire Rosa Ponselle gown , studded all over with flashing blue stones and with the huge peacock train spreading out behind her , was outstanding , so outstanding that the rest of the cast , pleased with their own designs but quick to recognize a ‘ star ’ outfit , burst into a little patter of applause . |
| 14 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 15 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 16 | In pentagonally shaped plates there is often a distal tongue or lobe slightly lower than the rest of the plate . |
| 17 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 18 | What was it they said about people who were convinced that the rest of the world was plotting against them ? |
| 19 | The last two E numbers were too much and the rest of the cake went into the bin . ’ |
| 20 | Well , seventy-five per cent of me knew it was real and the rest of me , well , silly though it sounds , I almost believed in the horsy hobgoblins . ’ |
| 21 | Murray was becoming increasingly flamboyant in style , which meant that his rages were fearful when the rest of the team did not get him what he wanted . |
| 22 | For the province will be affected by the next Labour government 's policies just as much as the rest of the UK . |
| 23 | The posters were fixed at night and the culprits were never caught — or , more likely , never looked for by a police force who enjoyed the joke as much as the rest of the city . |
| 24 | There was a period when only McQueen and Dustin were getting their per diem allowance , something they did not need as much as the rest of the cast and crew . |
| 25 | ( ‘ Bet your gums are relieved when the rest of you goes to sleep . ’ ) |
| 26 | Two years after Gundovald 's death , it was discovered that the dux Rauching was plotting with the followers of Chlothar II to assassinate Childebert ; he was then to take control of Theudebert , the king 's elder son , and of Champagne ; two other men , Ursio and Berthefred , were to seize Theuderic and the rest of Childebert 's kingdom ; Brunhild was to be ousted from power . |
| 27 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 28 | With the change from revue complete and the rest from ‘ Carry On ’ beginning , Cross took it upon himself to ‘ bully him ’ . |
| 29 | The old are more frequently ill than the rest of the population and more frequently suffer from physical disabilities such as partial loss of hearing or arthritic joints . |
| 30 | A well-presented summary section may prove so compelling that the rest of the report is hardly questioned or challenged . |