Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] for the rest " in BNC.

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1 I thus started a relationship with that country that has been constantly rewarding for the rest of my life , and indeed I now regard it almost as my second homeland .
2 Secure in the knowledge that his mother would be fully occupied for the rest of the evening and the butler would be busy introducing the guests , Patrick pulled off his dressing down and slipped down the back stairs to the kitchen .
3 She was so busy absorbing the knowledge that fitzAlan would be safely occupied for the rest of the day that she only belatedly heard the possessiveness behind his instructions .
4 When the tsar died at the beginning of 1725 there were twelve Russian diplomatic missions at work in different European capitals , a figure which was not to be significantly exceeded for the rest of the eighteenth century .
5 Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned .
6 Criticism was effectively silenced for the rest of the Government 's life , but a buried ambivalence persisted in Labour attitudes .
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