Example sentences of "it is rare for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that happens it is rare for the band to win the resulting battle and emerge unscathed . |
| 2 | It is rare for an Indie band to take off big on the strength of a first record . |
| 3 | It is rare for a house of this size and date to remain thatched , for so often the roof pitch would be changed to accommodate the more convenient slates or tiles . |
| 4 | I begin to understand why it is rare for a novelist to be his own narrator . |
| 5 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 6 | In women it is rare for either the patient or the examining doctor to notice a primary lesion , and the next stage , that of the inguinal bubo , is usually less marked than in men . |
| 7 | It is rare for a dispute about the value of an executive 's car to reach the courts . |
| 8 | It is rare for Mrs Thatcher to have more than one meeting of the full Cabinet per week . |
| 9 | It is rare for such declarations to be made — but that is usually because people have n't given any thought as to how best to behave and therefore have nothing to declare . |
| 10 | It is rare for either assumption to be correct . |
| 11 | Now it is rare for a centre-forward to skipper a side ( and I do n't think that has happened on more than one occasion at the Palace since ) so that only an exceptional player would do so . |
| 12 | The authority is not bound to accept his recommendations but it is rare for many , or any of substance , to be overruled . |
| 13 | It is rare for fertility to return after a sterilisation operation but , occasionally , the pathway through the fallopian tubes in the woman or the vas deferens in the man does re-open and fertility returns . |
| 14 | It is possible to make a confidential complaint or include confidential annexes in complaints , although it is rare for the Commission to act on a complaint which is not disclosed to the other party . |
| 15 | It is rare for such measures to provoke much debate . |
| 16 | ( vi ) Rejection by the other House It is rare for one House to reject outright a Bill passed by the other , more common for it to pass the Bill with amendments . |
| 17 | It is rare for an instrument to prove objectionable to the Houses on any of these grounds and the vast majority of those to which the committee draws attention are innocent of serious blemish . |
| 18 | It is rare for any big business to take initiatives like that on its own . |
| 19 | ‘ It is rare for that kind of relationship to work . ’ |
| 20 | It is rare for a Royal to openly criticise Government policy . |
| 21 | It is rare for a police officer to witness such an event , therefore in most cases the evidence of passers-by or the driver of the other vehicle involved will have to be relied upon . |
| 22 | Yet it is rare for them to be made to take the responsibility for it . |
| 23 | It is rare for companies to have formal arrangements for finding work for the spouse of a relocated employee especially as a typical posting to the UK is only for two or three years . |
| 24 | It is rare for any substantial report to be published within less than two years of the end of the data-collection phase , and it is very often a great deal longer than this . |
| 25 | For one thing it is rare for a human to suffer total loss of the visual cortex without extensive damage to the rest of the brain that confounds interpretation of the results . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , it is rare for either the staff or the child to question the validity or wisdom of these structures . |
| 27 | It is rare for children to welcome their parents ' separation even though they welcome an end to any violence , arguments , shouting or unpleasantness . |
| 28 | That conclusion is supported by contemporary evidence from Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) study in Sheffield , which clearly indicates that it is rare for elderly people to move in with their children in order to be cared for . |
| 29 | In Scandinavia and North America it is rare for young people with severe disabilities to be expected to enter employment and to live independently until after education and training up to the early twenties . |
| 30 | We have shown that it is rare for the sex fiend image to be constructed at the trial stage . |