adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
used
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There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
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It is also the most expensive, the least popular and the most rarely used .
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An Inhibition as mentioned above, is rarely used .
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Technically, judicial review was available, but it was rarely used .
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The final safety net, available but rarely used is a nine-month monetary support arrangement.
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The trainers are rarely used , and I generally return with the paperwork untouched.
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These proposals add little to existing, though rarely used , provisions for guardianship under the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Solvents are usually mixed with detergents and are rarely used alone.
■ VERB
achieve
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Young men's friendships rarely achieve the depth of intimacy of young women's.
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Stretches and deep body work rarely achieved on dry land can be performed in the water.
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Slanging matches rarely achieve anything positive, and other anger responses can be even more destructive.
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In practice this is rarely achieved by health services and local authorities and almost never includes private and voluntary sectors.
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It requires a degree of unification which environmentalists can rarely achieve with dignity.
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However, the farm worker rarely achieves what is necessary to bring himself before the attention of the public.
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Apart from this, their race, and often their language, gives them a solidarity which white workers can only rarely achieve .
come
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Even La Scala, where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500, rarely comes close to breaking even.
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Moreover, he was hanging out with writers and painters and rarely came home at night.
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Many are scavengers; others rarely come to land except to breed.
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Only if there is a bad drought and even then the women rarely come .
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Diana rarely came to the house more than twice a year.
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Danby and the other great Gorge masters rarely come to auction or are found for sale in galleries.
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In truth, she rarely came across them.
do
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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Everyone else is capable of a big game but rarely do they occur together.
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Secondly, that only very, very rarely does television stretch most people's intelligence.
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So far, though, they rarely do .
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Though men are more likely to approach a woman and deliver a dubious line, they rarely do so unprompted.
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The next day, she stayed home from work, something she rarely did , pleading illness.
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Very rarely do baseball games start at midnight.
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Of course, it rarely does .
find
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Jack had not expected anything else; hunters rarely find their quarry presented to them on a plate.
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Historians of religion are familiar with these words of Saint Catherine, but one rarely finds them in popular devotional treatises.
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I rarely find much satisfaction in debating harder abstractions or metaphysical teasers with him.
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This style of leader decision authority is rarely found in health care organizations.
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Contemporary artists favour a droit de suite with near unanimity, even though their work rarely finds a secondary market.
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You rarely find consideration of the social context of error, or of its significance in the growth of the writer.
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Such a setting is rarely found but on a college campus and permission may be difficult to obtain for its use.
get
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Even if you have been paying premiums for many years, you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value.
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The average customer is a person who has no trouble getting first dates but rarely gets beyond that.
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Despite that, it is hardy and rarely gets diseases, but has not been tank-bred.
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But it rarely gets the status or the attention it deserves.
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Even failures to replicate are not very interesting to the journals; experiments with negative results therefore rarely get reported.
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And the agency rarely gets outside scrutiny.
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She rarely got upset with either of her daughters, but she certainly was now.
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Second, a weak and outnumbered Democratic Party rarely gets help from the large block of independent voters.
give
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We shall see, however, that electronic spectra rarely give us direct information about molecular structures.
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The contract rarely gives detailed specifications on materials but gives the builder the right to substitute.
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He usually left this shop to the end because they rarely gave him an order and the road was one he hated.
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And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all.
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Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority.
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Writers were poorly paid, rarely given a screen credit and never encouraged to take a fresh approach.
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Published bibliographies rarely give level indicators, and publishers' information tends, in this respect, to be unreliable.
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To break this is to break the code, so it is rarely given .
happen
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Academic research tells us that this rarely happens perfectly and so we need to examine the effects of the policy in practice.
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A welcoming in of what is outside that rarely happens in Manhattan.
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But then today that kind of interview rarely happens .
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It may happen rarely in arid or semi-arid climates.
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But it rarely happens that way.
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In practice this rarely happens and a mild reaction is commonly produced.
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Yet such direction rarely happens in a vacuum.
hear
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I've rarely heard a more entertaining interview.
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San Diegans, however, rarely hear them.
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The familiar mainland gripe of skill shortages is rarely heard in Northern Ireland.
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From that start Leiber and Stoller went on from 1951 to 1956 to write songs rarely heard by whites.
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Again, I have only rarely heard anything which has interested me.
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Once the staple of popular novels, music and movies, we rarely hear praise of the R-word any more.
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One has rarely heard him sing with more authority, and never seen him so communicative, happy and funny.
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The stories rarely heard are those of satisfied customers like Patricia Lopez of El Cajon.
leave
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Today, ironically, McGuinness himself rarely leaves the Bogside, where he was born, for fear of assassination.
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They rarely leave their home in suburban San Diego, but did visit children over Christmas.
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She rarely left her hotel and ate her evening meal in her suite.
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Well over eighty years of age, and unable to walk without support, he now rarely leaves his room.
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They rarely leave the area during the day, and never at night, Chaniago said.
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Johnstone had rarely left the field prior to the Raiders' 25-10 loss to San Diego last weekend.
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Expulsion is an extreme sanction which will rarely leave the continuing, innocent partners entirely unscathed.
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In fact Chardin's work makes one feel that he rarely left his house.
mention
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Another, rarely mentioned problem with teleworking is that many people who work from home do not really have enough space.
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The presidential candidates were rarely mentioned in the Senate campaigns.
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In recent years Devi was rarely mentioned in the newspapers.
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In his last two campaigns for president, Bob Dole rarely mentioned his disability.
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Textbooks on research methods rarely mention the problems that arise when undertaking research on controversial topics or conducting it in sensitive locations.
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In the good old days of rampant dualism, the mind was rarely mentioned in polite society.
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That you are proud of their work and that you want others to share in your pleasure is rarely mentioned .
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She rarely mentions her late husband so I presume he didn't make up for much.
see
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You rarely see a direct response ad which does not put a clear offer - and the price - in its headline.
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You rarely see that people are perfectly balanced on these.
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That is why you rarely see anyone sticking up for political correctness.
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Small eggs were not uncommon a few years ago; they are rarely seen today.
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Moustaches and beards were rarely seen on skins; shaving was obligatory and stubble not accepted.
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But behind this tough exterior lies a side of Marley that's rarely seen .
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He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns, however small.
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Seventy-nine works are included, some rarely seen outside private collections.
seem
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It rarely seems to deliver what any of us, hand on heart, could say is justice.
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Frequency rarely seems to be the criterion for adding special circumstances.
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However, children rarely seem to be informed about the possibility of separation or divorce.
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George said he always found it frustrating to play with Robbie because his son rarely seemed interested in playing with him.
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Yet except in times of war or acute external threat, this seems rarely to happen in modern democratic societies.
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Vexatious, persistent winds have rarely seemed so unnecessary.
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No doubt some are, but when it comes to the next crisis, they rarely seem to be applied.
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Such contesting voices, though, seem rarely heard beyond academia.
speak
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Although they rarely speak about it.
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I rarely spoke to express preferences, preferring to use body language.
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It rarely speaks , though if frightened it may bleat like a goat. some occasionally have goats' shanks and hooves as well.
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Yes, Barkley has spoken rarely about retirement this season, and he has been free of major injuries.
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She rarely spoke and, when addressed, she replied in a whisper, eyes averted.
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She rarely speaks in class and had refused to write the short autobiographies the other students in Level Two were writing.
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He rarely spoke to the rest of us peasants in the house, though when he did he was nothing but polite.
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The laconic Joey Ramone rarely spoke .
use
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Friends are rarely used as carers.
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The machine is several years old but still looks new because it is rarely used .
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What that experience demonstrates is that the teacher very rarely uses the voluminous information, which is nevertheless conscientiously stored and retained.
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Consequently, we rarely used powerful, permanently emplaced mines.
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Settings of the Holy Communion and of canticles are rarely used , however, and the emphasis remains firmly congregational.
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Preoperational children rarely use a strategy based on reasoning.
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They didn't enter the room he had come from, but Travis led her down to one she had rarely used .
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She said she rarely uses the telephone at work, relying instead on e-mail.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alan rarely talked about his own work.
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Very rarely does she eat any kind of meat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Athletes play on one leg all the time in terms of injury but rarely if ever on no legs.
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In practice, however, we have rarely fought any of our major wars with an exclusively Continental or Maritime strategy.
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It had the dusty smell of an apartment whose windows were rarely opened.
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More rarely , however, have those between the same sheets remained largely unaware of their intimate if odd companionship.
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Nowadays, the public is rarely shocked by swearing.
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She is loved and visited by many, and is rarely alone.
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This mechanism is rarely used but is handy when a case is stalling.