Example sentences of "the rest [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
| 12 | ‘ Problems occur when sex , or any other addiction starts to have a negative effect on the rest of a person 's life . |
| 13 | Context-tables use the same troff -like mark-up as the rest of a document . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This brief three-year span can affect the rest of a woman 's life . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , Tumin sees no reason for continuing this compensation for the rest of an individual 's working life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sets of boundary conditions that tell us the state of some regions of the universe at a certain time and what effects propagate into it subsequently from the rest of the universe . |
| 28 | What it meant was that matter could curve a region in on itself so much that it would effectively cut itself off from the rest of the universe . |
| 29 | In the nineteenth century , however , evidence began to accumulate that the earth and the rest of the universe were in fact changing with time . |
| 30 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |