Example sentences of "[adj] to the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in 1956 Philip Moore declared that : ‘ A massive birth control programme is the only action that will permit European survival and at the same time be acceptable to the rest of the world ’ . |
| 2 | People want to read about something different and with Mainz central to the rest of Europe this is both an important and controversial plant site . |
| 3 | Such a taboo breaker is dangerous to the rest of the members of the society because they have strong unconscious desires to do the same thing . |
| 4 | They do not replace individual lessons but in one respect may be even more helpful : seeing another member of the group being shown the basic principles can often make it much clearer to the rest of the group . |
| 5 | He still ignored Therese offstage , but was — surprisingly — quite civil to the rest of the company . |
| 6 | To Fido , this is a signal that he is subordinate to the rest of the family or pack . |
| 7 | It was obvious to the rest of us that this is the path she would take once the heat had blown over — such actions are part and parcel of everyday life in America . |
| 8 | Students present to the rest of the class , or just to the teacher . |
| 9 | Utterly repulsive to the rest of the animal kingdom , but totally irresistible to other skunks . |
| 10 | One illustration of this was the organization called the Hundred New Towns Association , formed by the architect A. Trystan Edwards in 1934 , which advocated , as the term suggests , 100 new towns to relieve pressure on the metropolis ; the migration of 5 million people was proposed to 100 new settlements : 40 south of a line from the Wash to the Severn , a further 36 to the rest of England , 15 to Scotland and 9 to Wales . |
| 11 | full access without discrimination to the whole range of services and leisure opportunities available to the rest of the community |
| 12 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 13 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |
| 14 | Although nineteenth century whalers discovered that many Of the strange calls at sea were the voices of whales , only recently have the songs Of cetaceans become familiar to the rest of the world . |
| 15 | She knew little about football , but it was immediately obvious even to her that Geoffrey and O'Hara were superior to the rest of the field . |
| 16 | The pediments also bore sculptures , but those from the front are lost while those from the rear , for whatever reason , are markedly inferior to the rest of the work . |
| 17 | The third was that the costs of failure in Russia — from civil strife within its borders , up to and including a new international arms race — would be far greater to the rest of the world than the costs of economic failure in , say , Zaire . |
| 18 | In this situation , where the ‘ community ’ has become the farm itself , the farm worker lives in a somewhat privatized world , for the most part socially invisible to the rest of society . |
| 19 | He pointed melodramatically , running a finger along in the air ahead of him , peering with burning eyes as if indeed watching an army of the dead , invisible to the rest of us . |
| 20 | The voice was real close to the rest of the music and most times back then , in country and pop , the vocal was always way out in front ; even on RCA the voice was out more than we were used to . |
| 21 | I love the fact that England 's so close to the rest of Europe . |
| 22 | Furthermore , there is little doubt that within the Hebrew scriptures , there are recorded some of the most valuable pieces of wisdom and rules for righteous living , as are to be found anywhere , and it is these particular tenets and doctrines , which need to be separated , completely and utterly from the dogmatic claims of ‘ god-given ’ rights and superiorities which have always been , and always will be , unacceptable to the rest of the human race . |
| 23 | Thus , to revert to the example of deer , small species such as the roe have antlers that are small not only in absolute terms , but are small also relative to the rest of the roe 's body ; but the antlers of big species , like red deer , are not only bigger than those of the roe but also bigger relative to the body size of their possessor . |
| 24 | The variations in fortunes thus produced saw changes in the county 's position relative to the rest of England over long periods ; more immediately , there was often a considerable contrast between wealth and poverty in different parts of the area . |
| 25 | First , the economic circumstances of poor families have worsened relative to the rest of the population in recent decades . |
| 26 | By the mid 1980s , therefore the poor were significantly worse off , relative to the rest of the population , than ten years earlier , although in absolute terms their purchasing power improved . |
| 27 | Although you will certainly be concerned about the start itself , it is n't tremendously significant : it is how you sail relative to the rest of the fleet after their start that really matters . |
| 28 | The latter depends in turn on the capital intensity of fixed costs relative to variable costs ( ) and relative to the rest of the economy as a whole ( ) If fixed costs are relatively capital-intensive in both senses , then the first-round effect is for the size of the firm to be increased ( see dashed lines in Fig. 7–3 ) and this reinforces the substitution effect . |
| 29 | This improvement in the supply-side leads to an increase in aggregate demand by increasing real purchasing power , increasing investment , and improving the competitiveness of the EC relative to the rest of the world . |
| 30 | What 's happen , what happened was , in the mid to late eighties , London led the way in the housing market and prices in London became very very expensive relative to the rest of the country . |