Example sentences of "[art] rest [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kenny did stand out from the rest for the job , but it was an extremely hard decision , ’ said Gage . |
| 2 | Jessy works in the home and grows vegetables , selling what she can and keeping the rest for the family . |
| 3 | We treat just a couple , place some in the exercises and leave the rest for the reader to prove for himself or look up in , for example , [ 24 ] . |
| 4 | As the edges of the field are normally the most shaded and sheltered from the drying wind , the outside four to six rows are first raked towards mid-field and the rest towards the hedge . |
| 5 | On either side , white-painted kerb stones glowed faintly through the blackness as she walked with the rest towards the sound of the dancing , for ears were of more use than eyes in the blackout . |
| 6 | David , aged nine , empties our bin in the yard to pick out the salvageable items before he crams the rest into a sack to take to the dump . |
| 7 | He puts part of his pay into a spending account and the rest into a piggy-bank . |
| 8 | He watched her putting the ingredients into two vessels , the dry ones in a large bowl on the kitchen table , and the rest into a saucepan on the massive Aga cooker . |
| 9 | Stir one third into the hot milk chocolate custard and the rest into the plain . |
| 10 | Fold one third of the egg whites and one third of the cream into the milk chocolate and fold the rest into the plain . |
| 11 | Mr Devall said if the nitrate removal plant house was built it would take water from the Stour , remove nitrates from part of it for drinking water in Essex and return the rest into the Stour . |
| 12 | Their lot was to nuzzle their way across the sea bottom , sucking up mud and refuse through their simple circular mouths , filtering out the edible particles and expelling the rest through the slits on either side of their throats . |
| 13 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
| 14 | ‘ Problems occur when sex , or any other addiction starts to have a negative effect on the rest of a person 's life . |
| 15 | Context-tables use the same troff -like mark-up as the rest of a document . |
| 16 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 17 | This would of course be analogous to the typical von Restorff effect in which a single distinctive item is better remembered than the rest of a list . |
| 18 | This brief three-year span can affect the rest of a woman 's life . |
| 19 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 20 | However , Tumin sees no reason for continuing this compensation for the rest of an individual 's working life . |
| 21 | Such beliefs are very difficult to change , but once changed , may have a massive knock-on effect in the rest of an individuals framework of reference . |
| 22 | There was the fear that fire would spread across the rest of the premises . |
| 23 | This notion is intriguing , and acknowledges the fact that carbon is actually more common in much of the rest of the Universe than it is on Earth . |
| 24 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 25 | This is an undeniably gifted , but enigmatic , composer , who stands — as E. M. Forster said of Cavafy — at a slight angle to the rest of the universe . |
| 26 | His brother Lewis , a successful alternative comedian ( another who betrays the treasured privacy of his humour ; Scots regard jokes as intimate gifts between friends ) does a routine about the rest of the universe lying outside one 's own front door . |
| 27 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 28 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 29 | It was easy to forget sometimes that the rest of the universe , particularly the human part of it , did not operate on the basis of his own clear-cut standards . |
| 30 | But , like a minority of Imperial subjects , he was not sure that fear was sufficient justification for the isolation of whole worlds from the rest of the universe . |