Example sentences of "seldom if [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of their music was originally intended for plays or Court masques ; a great deal of it consists of undistinguished melodic declamation , 56 and even the simpler tuneful airs in which they are happiest seldom if ever match the poems of Donne and Herrick , Suckling and Carew , which they set . |
| 2 | No , mass-produced reproductions — as distinct from limited edition — prints seldom if ever rise in value . |
| 3 | Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets . |
| 4 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 5 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 6 | Language policies for education are highly charged political issues and seldom if ever decided on educational grounds alone . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who 's had a baby . ’ |
| 8 | Clearly , no one explanation could cover why we eat cows but not cats ; why big game hunting is the traditional pursuit of the wealthy ; why furs are going out of fashion ; why sexual slang employs so many animal and eating metaphors ; why customary cannibalism is seldom if ever authenticated ; why we worry so much more about high fat meats than about eating cheese ; why so many religious sects espouse vegetarianism ; why burger bars have been redecorating with pastel colours ; why the Flintstones barbecue dinosaur steaks ; why we eat beef rather than cow ; why businessmen might eat steak tartare at a negotiating lunch ; and why meat is said to give men aggression , strength , or heterosexual virility . |
| 9 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 10 | Currently fed by a saline stream and limited snow-melt , its salinity , dominated by calcium chloride , is about 13 times that of sea water , and high enough to ensure that it seldom if ever freezes . |
| 11 | Victorian literature , after all , seldom if ever deals with the matter , and Wordsworth 's bliss of solitude was an ideal aspiration of the poet , not a state he often claimed to have achieved . |
| 12 | Lacking statistics , ‘ we seldom if ever discussed growth , ’ but concentrated on what is now microeconomics . |