Example sentences of "are 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 .
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