Example sentences of "really [verb] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what he really wants is another relationship . ’ |
| 2 | Over bacon , cabbage and wine we had admired the elegance of the line that as prison walls got lower what was really happening was that prison was not disappearing but dissolving . |
| 3 | Until an alleged audit failure has been properly investigated , which usually takes some years , the Institute knows no better than anybody else whether there really has been any negligence or wrongdoing . |
| 4 | Well what we really want is more roads . |
| 5 | ‘ There is quite a sameness in high street stores in Britain , ’ he told the Clothes Show Magazine , ‘ whereas what customers really want is more individuality . |
| 6 | This is the which is actually much further on in its decoration that most of the rooms , in fact all it really needs is some cushions and the window glass here . |
| 7 | Personal idiosyncracies are not relevant here : what really matter are those sentiments and axiomatic patterns of thought and action which come , as we would say ‘ naturally ’ , as a result of having been brought up or ‘ socialized ’ in a particular society and culture . |
| 8 | But Greenpeace says that what 's really needed is more action by the Government to stop pollution : |
| 9 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 10 | What he really meant was that Tower Foin exercised a perennial attraction , drawing people by its beauty and its majesty , but he could n't say all that . |
| 11 | And then they want you , I tell you what there 's another thing on television that makes me really laugh is that advert about electricity and it says |
| 12 | What I really need is another credit card . |
| 13 | And what I really need is another card for my purse ! |
| 14 | At the moment they use their sitting room umm as just somewhere to put toys and washing and , just have n't decorated it or anything the dining room is still used like a living room , and what they really need is another room where they can . |
| 15 | What they really need is another room where they can put like the bigger toys you know . |
| 16 | He says that there IS a major anti crime operation going on in areas like Quedgeley , but what they really need is more officers . |
| 17 | All that 's really required is some software that controls how your documents are printed , and to whom . |