Example sentences of "it is [adv] rare for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without doubt , content is the main consideration in most kinds of library , and it is probably rare for physical characteristics to play a decisive role in the selection decision . |
| 2 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 3 | In this corpus we find that it is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent , and in those cases where one does , it is usually for special effect . |
| 4 | They become entangled in such a way that it is very rare for any to wriggle free , and while there is ample time to collect them at relative leisure they should nonetheless be collected as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | It is very rare for government departments , the armed services , or commercial or industrial undertakings to make errors in calculating the pension of a retiring worker . |
| 6 | It is very rare for young people recruited on that basis to be sacked if they subsequently fail to pass the exam or gain a certain grade . |
| 7 | It is very rare for Bangladeshi women to smoke ; some men do so . |
| 8 | The hearing is technically in public , though it is very rare for anyone other than those immediately involved to be present . |
| 9 | In practice , when making a purchase , it is very rare for us to note whether an object is made by a cooperative or a private factory , or in East or West Germany , and extraordinarily this division appears hardly , if at all , within the major symbolic dimensions of the contemporary world of commodities . |
| 10 | It is very rare for a farmer to allow us access to his fields once he has seeded them . |
| 11 | It is very rare for money to be lost on its own ! |
| 12 | Many young people in Gateshead have grown up in families in which it is very rare for someone to have a full-time , decent and well-paid job . |
| 13 | The approach in this case has been continued by the courts and it is very rare for a volenti plea to succeed in an employee — employer case . |
| 14 | It is indeed rare for the participants in such epoch-making events to have a complete understanding of them and their consequences . |
| 15 | Thankfully it is comparatively rare for human beings to seek to exterminate those creatures whom they regard as very much their inferiors — it is hard to find someone who favours the meaningless slaughter of dogs , for example . |
| 16 | It is comparatively rare for these kinds of cases to get widespread coverage across many newspapers , and even more unusual for these cases to receive sustained coverage . |
| 17 | It is comparatively rare for it to be so long or so short as to cause difficulty in sexual intercourse — about 2½ in. is long enough — while satisfactory coitus does not demand complete intromission of a penis which is rather long . |
| 18 | A It is quite rare for Piranhas to breed in captivity and most spawnings have taken place in public aquariums . |
| 19 | In practice it is relatively rare for all the different sources to be taken into account before an order . |
| 20 | It is relatively rare for accountants to find themselves in trouble , whether legal or ethical , because work they have done has been misinterpreted or misunderstood . |
| 21 | It is relatively rare for a firm to have an absolute monopoly of the market , but there are many instances where a small number of large firms dominate a market — this is called an oligopoly . |
| 22 | In practice , however , it is relatively rare for elderly patients to be admitted with a severe , life threatening asthmatic attack compared with younger patients . |
| 23 | It is extremely rare for the Executive to lose the confidence of the House of Commons . |
| 24 | It is extremely rare for the House of Lords to reject outright a Bill passed by the Commons , slightly less rare for the Commons to reject outright a Bill passed by the Lords — odd or controversial Bills are occasionally passed by the House of Lords , sometimes , one suspects , in the confident expectation that they will be rejected by the Commons . |
| 25 | ( ii ) The ‘ 10 minute ’ rule This is a development of the method of introducing a Bill by motion now rarely used in the case of Government Bills and it is extremely rare for legislation to result from its use for Private Members ' Bill purposes . |
| 26 | In the latter case , it is extremely rare for a potential voter who is in possession of a polling card to be turned away . |
| 27 | Unless the mutation has become established , it is extremely rare for such forms to be found in the wild , although they must occur from time to time . |
| 28 | It is extremely rare for Marxian analysis to explore this matter , but Marx 's original insight that the state treats people as separate persons rather than as parts of larger social collectives , has actually been used and developed by one branch of Marxist state theory . |
| 29 | It is extremely rare for the medal to be presented to a non-architect , although past winners include the architectural writer Nikolaus Pevsner and Peter Rice 's former employer the engineer Ove Arup . |