Example sentences of "are really [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans are really nasty to slugs , drowning them in beer ( hic ) and melting the poor little sods with salt ( I prefer pepper on mine , yum ! — Ed ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of them are really nice to me ’ , she says . |
| 3 | Although a problem is not an invitation to launch out into a general disquisition on the department of law on which the problem is set , it is important in working out the problem to state all the rules of law that are really relevant to it . |
| 4 | It is things like that which are really destructive to writers , who are often brave about illness and pain , and resilient after all but the deepest grief . |
| 5 | In the case of the former , it is a traditional rather than a vocational education which is required , and as to the latter , the evidence suggests that employers are really indifferent to their education . |
| 6 | ‘ But I just want to make sure , and we are really close to it , that the agreement we have is to my liking . |
| 7 | More recently , people have reversed the logic applied by Weiskrantz and Warrington and have suggested that the deficits in rats are really due to a memory loss ( Kesner and DiMattia 1987 ; Olton 1983 ) . |
| 8 | It 's not something that kids are really privy to . |
| 9 | Despite all the public hoo-hah over the recent sale of jewels , the items which are really important to the history of the family — and to Europe itself — are the archives of Europe 's first postal service , founded in the Middle Ages by the Thurn und Taxis , and the two incredibly fine libraries ; compared with these , even the furnishings in the castle pale into insignificance . |