Example sentences of "[conj] the rest [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson , who failed in the Olympics , said : ‘ I had to win , or the rest of the boys would have given me stick , particularly Linford . ’ |
| 2 | Er , I then went back er back down the passageway er into the lounge , checked the kitchen checked that the rest of the firearms officers were were okay . |
| 3 | Lets hope that the rest of the teams in the League realise how crap the Scum are at the back . |
| 4 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 5 | You might get a backlash you might find that the rest of the citizens of this county want to know , want to know what on earth you 're doing pouring money into this area when the rest of the county gets nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be better to rest them ( if you do not want to call it dropping them ) and hope that the rest from the pressures and tensions of international cricket will make them eager to come back and perform as one expects them . ’ |
| 7 | ( 1977 ) found that those women who had been separated from either or both of their own parents in the context of a disrupted early family life interacted with their babies considerably less than the rest of the mothers . |
| 8 | But it does seem ( and locals swear ) that the climate is milder in Dentdale than the rest of the Dales . |
| 9 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who is a keen supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion Association Football Club ( The Seagulls ) , and who frequently goes to the sports centre of the University of Sussex to watch his team at their indoor training , was surprised the other day to see two figures distinctly older than the rest of the players . |
| 10 | However , this is n't likely to occur within the National Parks and although , as Table 8.2 shows , they have a higher percentage of woodland than the rest of the uplands , voluntary agreements to limit any further afforestation will reduce their relative share . |
| 11 | This stretch of broad water actually carries more shipping than the rest of the rivers of the Empire put together , and it is the principal route for trade in the Empire . |
| 12 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 13 | Nuttall was no better — or worse — than the rest of the men within the underground milieu in his choice of language . |
| 14 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 15 | She looked into the forest to see if the rest of the Women were close enough to catch her , if she could evade these few … |
| 16 | The outcome , perhaps inevitably , was that no new voting system at all was introduced , except for the university constituencies ( for it was deemed that graduates would be able to follow the mysteries of PR even if the rest of the electors could not ) . |
| 17 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 18 | When Hooper went they were 240 for 5 and perhaps just catchable if the rest of the wickets tumbled . |
| 19 | Fowler and Andy Lloyd made a good start , Gower chipped in well , and the rest of the batsmen did enough to see England home by three wickets . |
| 20 | Appropriately , it was one of those news conferences where the journalists are substantially outnumbered by PR men , consultants and the rest of the hucksters ' fraternity . |
| 21 | Maggie , Natasha and the rest of the girls went into the hall together and immediately Moira was asked to dance . |
| 22 | The crowd are now on Antony 's side and are calling Brutus and the rest of the conspirators traitors . |
| 23 | And the rest of the times it 's you know , it 's taking If we could keep going for |
| 24 | And Barbara Merifield , of Bedlington , Northumberland , said : ‘ It 's about time Charles and the rest of the Royals took a leaf out of Diana 's book . ’ |
| 25 | But as Office Talk snapped Take That arriving in their mean looking black Mercedes , Drury House was rocked by the screams of fans lining the pavement for a glimpse of Robbie , Mark , and the rest of the boys . |
| 26 | Each part of the walls and the rest of the ceilings received their appointed section of the Christian story . |
| 27 | Karl Gesner and the rest of the soloists arrive next week . |
| 28 | The side was important in the development of young players with first team potential and the women should not allow an unbridgeable gap to emerge between the Premier side and the rest of the teams , as the men had . |
| 29 | But source critics , prompted by the recurring refrain " And the rest of the deeds of King X , are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah/Israel ? " , have concluded that much of the early material in the book has in fact been taken from royal annals and other trustworthy contemporary records . |
| 30 | There are few rules laid down , apart from not smoking in the classroom and informing the staff if they ca n't come in , and the rest of the rules about things like washing up and cooking are made and implemented by girls themselves . |