Example sentences of "rarely [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | One bad year is rarely enough to produce famine . |
| 6 | Narrative illustration , in the sense given here , is rarely highly thought of by adult critics . |
| 7 | Documents rarely exactly match a user 's requirements because information can be packaged in almost as many different ways as there are participants in a subject area . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One can rarely dip into a Pollini recording as a series of edited highlights ( except perhaps as a demonstration of superlative digital execution ) , as he rarely ever plays ‘ for the moment ’ ; one is irresistibly drawn towards hearing the whole work , as only then does the integrity of his vision register with its fullest potency . |
| 10 | Given that we rarely ever got to the bye-line , Sunderland never looked really troubled by this . |
| 11 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
| 12 | Cos I rarely ever do that . |
| 13 | A spokesman said tribunals rarely ever order reinstatement when it is accepted that the allegations are true . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | It is simple and rarely deeply moulded . |
| 16 | Alaska has rarely decisively elected any mainstream candidate . |
| 17 | It is in fact only rarely openly acknowledged by other anthropologists , though the blanket rejection of evolution which is to be found in the work of many seems to imply . |
| 18 | However , he needs Lennie in a strange way , and he rarely really means what he says . |
| 19 | One of the least known owls in the world , very rarely reliably observed in the field ; upperparts buff with greyer wings and distinct golden collar ; Tawny Owl can be so pale that unfeathered toes of Hume 's are only really good distinction ; perhaps black-tipped crown feathers would show a darker crown in the field . |
| 20 | We rarely even had his private address . |
| 21 | There seems to be absolutely no evidence in favour of this second , crucial assumption ( nor is there evidence against ; the issue is remarkably unresearched and rarely even regarded as worth discussing ; see Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He rarely even came down from town . ’ |
| 24 | On the occasions I have played this course as the guest of a member , I have never had to queue to start play , and have rarely even seen other players on the course . |
| 25 | Work references from a licensed dealer are of dubious value , and rarely even asked for . |
| 26 | ‘ A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man ’ , wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson , Max Ernst , Dali or most chillingly of all , Hans Bellmer , the female form appears distorted , dissected , feathered , bound and strapped to machines , she rarely even wears a face . |
| 27 | Ulster 's opposition to Home Rule long pre-dated Law 's leadership and he had rarely even spoken on Irish affairs in parliament before becoming leader . |
| 28 | She rarely even stopped for tea . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The foods which are consumed very much in the way they were grown — many of the fibre-rich foods — are rarely potentially fattening . |