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