Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |
| 2 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 3 | And I 'm sure that Ted Heath was as prone to that as the rest of us and he had some very able people round him . |
| 4 | Can I really expect her to do that for the rest of my life ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'd have to live with that for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 6 | In 1971–76 their overall growth rate was already considerably in excess of that for the rest of Britain , but subsequently the gap has widened , particularly since 1981 . |
| 7 | In two Utah mining countries ( Carbon and Emery ) , the age and sex adjusted death rate for gastric cancer was 3.4 times higher than that for the rest of the state overall , and eight times higher in miners than in non-mining Utah men . |
| 8 | The room was plunged into darkness and stayed like that for the rest of the day . |
| 9 | She had ruined their relationship , and she would live with the pain of that for the rest of her life . |
| 10 | He was polite but distant after that for the rest of the week , and there was no suggestion that they should get together in the evening or over the weekend . |
| 11 | I ca n't promise it will be like that for the rest of the journey . |
| 12 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 14 | ‘ I will never understand this for the rest of my life . |
| 15 | A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life ? |
| 16 | Another for the rest of us . ’ |
| 17 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 18 | Accordingly , some of the rest of the ingot was made into knife-blades , but they did not appeal to local cutlers because they were hard to forge . |
| 19 | How common was this in the rest of the country ? |
| 20 | The youth committee include about half from Pinewood Village and half from the rest of Bordon . |
| 21 | Speaking to the Senate Finance Committee yesterday , Mr Baker said that a rouble convertible with other currencies was ‘ necessary ’ to generate market competition within the Soviet Union and to integrate the country 's economy with that of the rest of the world . |
| 22 | The thing which put Sunday tea apart from that of the rest of the week was the lovely hot Wiltshire dough cake . |
| 23 | It seems , indeed , that part of the purpose was didactic : to let audiences hear how distinct the traditional fiddle music of Donegal is from that of the rest of Ireland . |
| 24 | Concern at the contrast of the openness of the UK market to takeovers with that of the rest of the Community led the UK Government to commission a study by Coopers & Lybrand entitled ‘ Barriers to takeovers in the European Community ’ . |
| 25 | The Germanic culture of the South Saxons remained much more intact than that of the rest of the country . |
| 26 | The agricultural and urban prosperity of the county , together with that of the rest of England , received a severe blow in the later 1340s when the Black Death finally reached England from the continent . |
| 27 | The head had an extra covering of cloth or canvas beyond that of the rest of the body , forming a kind of mask . |
| 28 | I realised that the standard of scholarship of the staff of Judson was not as high as that of the rest of the University , but their care of the students seemed to me more personal . |
| 29 | The condition of the people of Hartfield , Hawksborough and Shoyswell hundreds differed from that of the rest of the region only in so far as the usual string of £1 assessments was balanced in each of them by one of the very few three-figure ones ( see Table 2.17 ) . |
| 30 | By comparing the history of Northern Ireland with that of the rest of the United Kingdom it is clear that the mere fact of elections is not sufficient . |