Adjective modifier

• Very: Blood & Lymphatic System Disorders Very Rare: Blood count changes ( leucopenia, thrombocytopenia ).

Modifies a noun

• bird: Our small groups have the chance to observe and record some of Britain's rarest birds!

• occasion: You no longer take showers even on the rare occasion there is hot water.

• breed: Ah singing drummers, they're a rare breed.

• occurrence: That's a fairly rare occurrence in this business.

• commodity: Their group particularly prides itself on providing a very high level of one to one personal client service - a rare commodity nowadays.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: Burials of this period are extremely rare in the region.

• comparatively: Shortly after the restart, Hursts fell victim to that classic, if comparatively rare sucker punch: a goal direct from a corner.

• relatively: These meadows are relatively rare in the UK; Northern Ireland has a significant proportion of this resource.

• nationally: A cluster of temporary ponds has already yielded a record of a nationally rare water beetle.

• exceedingly: The region has examples of the exceedingly rare survival of funerary monuments above ground.

• very: Exposure to uranium is a very rare cause of lung cancer.

Infinitive complement

• find: It's rare to find more than one major story on each page of these papers.

• encounter: What people have said about the book: âItâs rare to encounter a work as authoritative and accessible as this.

• see: It is rare to see a walker in the middle of nowhere in the hot Florida sun.

Used with adjective complement

• become: However, in recent years it has become rare for a trainee to come into the industry at this level.

• seem: In any case, such imitation seems surprisingly rare except in a modeling experiment using specially prepared videos.

Preposition: in

• lowland: The pool system is a particularly important feature, as these are generally very rare in Northern Irish lowland raised bogs.

• cultivation: This activity is rare in cultivation in global terms.