Example sentences of "be rarely [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear of intimacy , especially with the same sex , overdependency on sex as a source of comfort , resorting to forms of physical and emotional bullying are rarely even noticed in many work set-ups , and it 's unlikely they would ever become a real obstacle to career advancement . |
| 2 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 3 | Particular attention should be given to those grounds for expulsion which depend upon the partners making necessarily subjective assessments about their colleagues ( level of performance , observance of the spirit of the partnership etc ) where the issues are rarely clear cut . |
| 4 | Most of these pieces are rarely enough heard , let alone recorded , so to have available performances of such obvious dedication , meticulously prepared ( all praise to their director Paul Spicer ) and engineered , is a rare treat indeed for all lovers of neo-romantic English music . |
| 5 | The foods which are consumed very much in the way they were grown — many of the fibre-rich foods — are rarely potentially fattening . |
| 6 | With regard to Audrey it is difficult to identify the goals to which she aspires since these are rarely explicitly referred to , and she appears less often . |
| 7 | Problems ‘ forgotten ’ are rarely actually put out of mind . |
| 8 | Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours . |
| 9 | My experience of these potencies over many years has demonstrated their usefulness in the treatment of serious cases , and deep pathology is rarely wholly eradicated without the aid of fifty millesimal potencies . |
| 10 | This continues to be the case in all the countries we studied , although their potential is rarely fully developed and utilized . |
| 11 | To answer this question it must be noted that in sociology ( and elsewhere ) a feminist perspective appears to be polemical because it runs counter to the accepted male-oriented viewpoint — a viewpoint which is rarely explicitly articulated . |
| 12 | The food 's quality is not improved by the fact that the watch is rarely there to eat on time . |
| 13 | One bad year is rarely enough to produce famine . |
| 14 | What is striking about many of these cases is that there is rarely further mention in the national press , but the sex fiend message has been amply conveyed . |
| 15 | Narrative illustration , in the sense given here , is rarely highly thought of by adult critics . |
| 16 | Tillyard suggested the principle of order was so taken for granted by the age that it was rarely directly articulated — ‘ the utter commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of except in explicitly didactic passages , but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion ’ . |