Example sentences of "seldom [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forecasting future fertility is the most difficult task in demography , and seldom successfully attempted . |
| 2 | The work of local authorities was ‘ fragmented between too many separate departments , and these [ were ] seldom coherently organised or led by the Clerk . |
| 3 | In the day-to-day life of a legal system its rule of recognition is very seldom expressly formulated as a rule ; though occasionally , courts in England may announce in general terms the relative place of one criterion of law in relation to another , as when they assert the supremacy of Acts of Parliament over other sources or suggested sources of law . |
| 4 | Even though the mountain goat can eat more or less any plant material , there is seldom enough to go round , and the availability and whereabouts of food vary throughout the year . |
| 5 | Those of today have always had some evaluation , but seldom enough to cover all the circumstances in which they may be used , and they include many of such potency that their misuse can have dire consequences . |
| 6 | We seldom just start at the beginning and read straight through sequentially to the end . |
| 7 | He hit a low , snap duck-hook off the tee , which I have very seldom ever seen him do . |
| 8 | Such decay and distress was seldom ever seen |
| 9 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |
| 10 | HARDENED Test cricketers seldom openly weep at the loss of a colleague , but many did when Kenny Barrington died , during that dreadful tour of West Indies in 1981 . |
| 11 | Seldom before had I seen so many priests and nuns on the streets or as many churches per square mile . |
| 12 | They had seldom before entered Applecross café but on the few occasions before had been given , purely accidentally of course , some ‘ fat in five seconds ’ . |
| 13 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 14 | Except on the big set-piece confrontations , the death penalty above all else , the debates are seldom well attended . |
| 15 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 16 | We seldom nowadays hear the tolling of a bell to signify disaster or misfortune . |
| 17 | I 've had a letter from our Ken He writes , pensioners are now , are growing vi vital contingency including many active gift enable people with other use , there often made to feel unwanted , there commonly neglected and there needs are seldom frequently met . |
| 18 | Herbert is widely read , where Collins is seldom even heard of . |
| 19 | Mary never liked our neighbours and she seldom even spoke to them , but she knew Mum had invited them all . |
| 20 | Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority . |
| 21 | The motivation issue is not an easy one to discuss , since it is an item which is seldom adequately defined . |
| 22 | The level of marks required for entrance to secondary school is a very closely guarded secret and seldom officially revealed . |
| 23 | At the time there were some 900 subscribers to the College ( a number seldom subsequently exceeded ) and 14 pupils . |
| 24 | In west Africa such small-scale entrepreneurs have long been tolerated , though seldom actively encouraged . |
| 25 | Exactly how this wonderland would be brought about was , of course , seldom systematically thought out . |
| 26 | The ideas are so well accepted now that , whilst the intellectual debts owed to Hess , and to Vine & Matthews , are still acknowledged in passing in modern geological textbooks , their crucial early papers on the subject are seldom specifically cited . |