Example sentences of "very rarely [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , nowadays , it 's very rarely heard . |
| 2 | Surgery is never used and drugs very rarely employed . |
| 3 | Those who dismissed the movies were also dishonest in the sense that they very rarely conceded that the whole tone of feature films had been moulded by politicians and largely middle-class pressure groups and religious organizations who had ceaselessly clamoured for censorship and for films to be morally edifying and uplifting . |
| 4 | All-over repeat patterns are very rarely repeated exactly the same on each row . |
| 5 | Since a given project is very rarely repeated , project management is the business of managing variety ; benefits tend to flow from the effective exploitation rather than the reduction thereof . |
| 6 | As artists , we have seen shifts int he boundaries of public and private , high and low , inaccessible and accessible and , indeed , even personal and political but the influences of past feminist art practices on these moves is very rarely acknowledged . |
| 7 | On land , where for the most part rocks are not built up by deposition but broken down by erosion , deposits , such as sand dunes , are only very rarely created and preserved . |
| 8 | Before she met Mark she had very rarely gone out except to the school or church . |
| 9 | But the only reason for that relatively peaceful state of affairs was , quite simply , that Lisa had been so busy that their paths had very rarely crossed . |
| 10 | Lifestyle is a term which is often used but very rarely defined . |
| 11 | But wage negotiations are very rarely conducted at such a high level of aggregation : wage bargaining is a fragmented , decentralized process . |
| 12 | Although individuals may be aware of sometimes talking in " a mixture " this is very rarely commented on . |
| 13 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 14 | Schools are very rarely inspected in depth by HMI and there is a need for a more regular and systematic coverage . |
| 15 | It was something very rarely seen in Britain , or in other democracies : an emergency government — or , in Hoare 's words , ‘ an emergency Committee of public Safety ’ , formed for a specific purpose , and intended to last for a specific period of time . |
| 16 | He was a mysterious man who wandered about the house at all hours but was very rarely seen . |
| 17 | Chancroid is generally less common than it used to be , and is very rarely seen in Northern Europe , although it still poses problems in Asia and parts of Africa . |
| 18 | Very rarely seen away from Iceland . |
| 19 | In general , credit is very rarely used for food . |
| 20 | In Muslim countries , green — the colour of Mohammed 's coat — is sacred and is very rarely used as a predominant colour ; but it forms an important part of the dyer 's palette in non-Muslim cultures , particularly China ; here , the sacred colour is yellow , in which the Emperor traditionally dressed . |
| 21 | These powers , granting a minister default powers over local authorities which , in his view , fail to provide a satisfactory service , are very rarely used . |
| 22 | The piccolo is very rarely used completely ‘ solo ’ , but is much used to double other woodwind instruments at the octave or double octave above . |
| 23 | Business for sale advertisements are very rarely used . |
| 24 | This insurance arrangement is very rarely used by practitioners , but readers should know that it does exist , and might provide some help to a buyer who is basically raising 100% of the price from the mortgage company . |
| 25 | The old , traditional method of exchange of contracts for sale by the buyer 's solicitors or representatives calling personally on the seller 's is very rarely used . |
| 26 | The last sentence is is the most difficult one , because of this word withstand , which of course is is very rarely used in this sense now . |
| 27 | A little over ninety per cent I suppose , and erm , I 'm not sure if you got fourteen or fifteen carat , so fourteen I think is used with the continental standard and the lowest continental standard now are fifteen used to be our inbetween standard , very rarely used . |
| 28 | Punishment is something which is very rarely associated with virtue , and more often is undertaken with reluctance . |
| 29 | Supper was a triumph of the sort Mrs Crump very rarely experienced and she would have been hurt had anyone pointed out that Mr Crump 's fine and very expensive claret which flowed like spring water was something to do with that success . |
| 30 | Thus gestures in the direction of participation are very rarely premissed on the basis of any considered political theory , much less on the adoption of any fundamental moral position . |