Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abolition of the wager of law in 1833 caused some revival in detinue but in view of the expansion of conversion , detinue only really remained necessary where the defendant was unable to redeliver the goods . |
| 2 | It represents a way of life , it seems , that has only really become possible in the nineteenth century , although Kepler may have approximated it . |
| 3 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , his trainer , says that Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the Middle Park Stakes , has only really come to himself this week . |
| 4 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 5 | Even the Nobel prize winner for physiology and medicine , Sir Charles Sherrington , dedicated his prize-winning speech to Alexander 's work , but even to this day Alexander has not really received the recognition he so richly deserves . |
| 6 | This was proof , according to the Commission , that : ‘ Mr Nkrumah has not really departed one jot from his avowed aim for a Union of West African Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 7 | The C format for ‘ unknowns ’ has not really caught on , and flaps have given the impression of ‘ up-market ’ reads and often limit sales although attracting reviews . |
| 8 | ‘ Spain has not really changed you . ’ |
| 9 | The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship . |
| 10 | Therefore , if a reviewer starts going on about something other than the game s/he is obviously telling you that the game has not really got anything different in terms of game play to offer . |
| 11 | So they choose to contend that it has not really happened : and in so choosing raise a timely question about the nature of political belief . |
| 12 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 13 | Souness said : ‘ Stewart has not really started his Liverpool career yet because of injuries . |
| 14 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |
| 15 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 16 | ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’ |
| 17 | When , however , the chairman of the SIB , supposedly at the apex of a system of self-regulation , calls for a ‘ clear shift to a less self-regulatory basis ’ , when the chairman of Prudential Corporation says that the government should ‘ organise investor protection on a fully statutory basis under direct government control ’ , and when the chairman of BAT Industries ( which owns Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar ) adds that ‘ self-regulation has not really worked ’ , it would be futile to start quizzing them about whether ‘ self-regulation ’ is really an accurate description of the present system . |
| 18 | He is old and sad and weak because while the sport dominates his thinking , he no longer dominates the sport , and his thinking , for many years now , has not really dominated the Ferrari sporting division at Maranello . |
| 19 | In terms of review of staggered hours erm the review is sort of a constant one which has not really come to head yet , in terms of actually being able to write something down , so I 'm we 'll be able to as soon as we , as soon I 've something which we erm , come to any conclusions in terms of staggered hours . |
| 20 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 21 | But what gets me most is when somebody dies who has n't really lived . |
| 22 | Throwing out all those shirts has n't really altered Patrick in any major way , but Judith is happier . |
| 23 | She just fires off and has n't really grown up . |
| 24 | And I said well And she , well to be honest Bren she said , she has n't really done anything to me and Sid has she ? |
| 25 | And a word about your two drivers Eddy — you 've got one with a lot of experience , one has had a lot of experience of pre-qualifying , but has n't really done much Grand Prix racing , is that a good balance ? |
| 26 | It has n't really worried me , though . |
| 27 | At the same time , but separately , a Unix kernel with multi-level security enhancements , SVR4.0 MLS , was re-worked to comply with the US government Orange Book B2 security requirement — with B3 extensions — emerging as SVR4.1 ES ( though it has n't really gone out to end users yet ) . |
| 28 | what she 'd collected by saying that she has n't really gone to any |
| 29 | I know he has n't really gone to the shops . |
| 30 | Germany as a country has n't really existed for very long , has it ? |