Example sentences of "[coord] they rarely " in BNC.

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1 Non-US vessels are not bound by the MMPA , they are not required to carry any dolphin-saving equipment , and they rarely carry observers .
2 This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else .
3 In West Africa and South-East Asia , commercial loggers cut down hardwoods to supply rich consumer countries — but they rarely replant .
4 Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals .
5 In other rocks , water can hardly flow at all : clay has very small pores , whereas pumice is full of good-sized holes but they rarely link up .
6 This is when two people should begin the real act of loving , but they rarely do because it requires effort and commitment .
7 I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention .
8 ( The more you practise , the more ‘ real ’ the experiences tend to become , but they rarely seem as ‘ real ’ as our waking life . )
9 There were small motor-powered jalboots which hugged the coast , fishing or cargo hopping , but they rarely lifted sail , plying in and out of the Emirates using the region 's cheap petrol .
10 Leicester 's Geordie boss Brian Little , in contrast , paraded his strongest side but they rarely threatened Newcastle .
11 They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse .
12 Males may spar and even fight when confined in a small aquarium without sufficient territory being available to the individuals , but they rarely cause trouble with other species .
13 But they rarely bother to come .
14 Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted .
15 ‘ Our dynamic legislative leaders drank coffee and occasionally took notes , but they rarely were given a chance to say anything . ’
16 They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden .
17 They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days .
18 In occasional clearings the American boys caught sight of slender natives in conical , palm-leaf hats bending over fishing lines or snares for river fowl , but they rarely looked up ; only the naked , potbellied children paid any attention , staring at the Avignon with brown , expressionless eyes as it swung past the low banks on which they stood .
19 Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out .
20 Bruce Tigwell says … the skill of it he says is being able to read the ground and go over bumps as quickly as you can … there are more skills in this than any other form of motoring … he says it 's fun motor sport and very friendly but the competition is still high … you can not buy the vehicles off the shelf you have to make them … top speed is 115 miles an hour but they rarely get the chance to go that fast
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