Example sentences of "[adj] to the rest of the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He still ignored Therese offstage , but was — surprisingly — quite civil to the rest of the company . |
| 5 | To Fido , this is a signal that he is subordinate to the rest of the family or pack . |
| 6 | Students present to the rest of the class , or just to the teacher . |
| 7 | Utterly repulsive to the rest of the animal kingdom , but totally irresistible to other skunks . |
| 8 | full access without discrimination to the whole range of services and leisure opportunities available to the rest of the community |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First , the economic circumstances of poor families have worsened relative to the rest of the population in recent decades . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |