Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] really [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are now capable of taking two or three titles , though two years ago , they were not really a threat . ’ |
| 2 | ( Do remember , these chains were not really a penance , more a sharp rebuke to the pleasure-loving flesh and a curt reminder of vows taken . ) |
| 3 | And they were not really the sort of children who were easily frightened . |
| 4 | Within the ‘ middle class ’ zones of owner-occupation of housing , politically active people tended to see politics as an arena for establishing the broad outlines of policy ; the ‘ details ’ of execution of policy could be left to suitably qualified experts and were not really the business of politics . |
| 5 | We were never really a unit out there , ’ said Leicester manager Brian Little . |
| 6 | THEY were never really the sort of couple you would put together in a book . |
| 7 | but in actual fact it , it was only really The Yorkshire House did anything direct |
| 8 | The first tour in America was not really a tour . |
| 9 | Our gesture was not really a religious one , for neither of us believed in the Roman Catholic faith and detested its oppressive hold on the Spanish people , particularly the poor . |
| 10 | It was not really a political movement ( the Communist Party began by opposing it ) but it aimed first to convert the Labour Party to unilateral disarmament and , by getting Labour elected , changing government policy . |
| 11 | He prayed she was wrong , that he was not really a nigger , because niggers were coal-black people who lived in holes in the ground in darkest Africa . |
| 12 | For a start , it was not really a country-house at all , rather a monstrosity on the edge of Bletchley town , with suburban dwellings stretching up to the gates . |
| 13 | Clover Roope , who later became a dancer , remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John 's stepsisters , and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with ‘ a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long , lanky figure , who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer , but gave the sense already that here was somebody important . ’ |
| 14 | He was not really a Hindu either . |
| 15 | The third idea unacceptable to Christians is that Jesus was not really a man at at all but God play-acting at being a man . |
| 16 | It was this aspect of Althusserian theory , perhaps more than any other , that led many orthodox Marxists to consider that Althusser was not really a Marxist at all . |
| 17 | Except that it was not really a decision , more an unthought-out reaction . |
| 18 | The machine was not really a steam engine as it had no moving parts . |
| 19 | The Coalition was not really a confluence of parties . |
| 20 | It was not really a question . |
| 21 | It was not really a sex scene in the nightgown on and Arnold was wearing his briefs . |
| 22 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 23 | ‘ It was not really the normal way of getting a manager 's job . |
| 24 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 25 | It was not really the money . |
| 26 | He returned and told Allah the curious story , and Allah replied : " That was not really the idol speaking my word , that was me ! " |
| 27 | The social desirability of either position was not really an issue , although needless to say it was copiously referred to . |
| 28 | There were those who might used that access to greater affect than Afshar , some who might have been more ruthless , perhaps , for he was not really an aggressive man . |
| 29 | The sight that greeted me was not really an encouraging one . |
| 30 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |