Example sentences of "it is very rare for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It is very rare for Bangladeshi women to smoke ; some men do so .
6 The hearing is technically in public , though it is very rare for anyone other than those immediately involved to be present .
7 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 .
8 It is very rare for a farmer to allow us access to his fields once he has seeded them .
9 It is very rare for money to be lost on its own !
10 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 .
11 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 .
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