Example sentences of "[verb] is really " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of people think blindness must be worse than deafness but not being able to communicate is really maddening . ’ |
| 2 | And wh why that 's happening is really what we 're going to be spending the evening on , and it 's related to international trade . |
| 3 | But the first thing that he says is really at the heart of his answer to the differing points of view about false ‘ gods ’ . |
| 4 | These serve to provide Disabled people with a positive cultural identity and impetus for continued campaigning as well as communicating to the non-Disabled arts and general community what being Disabled is really about . |
| 5 | And you begin to say things that do n't make any sense to people who do n't know what 's going on between you , but you know that the other person , to whom what you 've said is really addressed will know what you mean , even though he may not actually be there . |
| 6 | In context , it will function in a certain kind of perspective , depending on the purpose of communication ; for instance , it may function as a statement of a person 's state of health ( John has been taken ill ) , as an identification of the person affected ( John has been taken ill ) , or as an affirmation that the information conveyed is really valid ( John has been taken ill ) . |
| 7 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 8 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 9 | It 's a shame because I mean it I think what they 've got is really you know , er er er they 'd be hard put to it to get anything as good really at the price I think . |
| 10 | know is really , and it 's in the file , if they do pay up at the last we 've just got ta get |
| 11 | Apply a high phosphate and potash autumn lawn fertiliser only if the grass is looking jaded ( the best time for feeding is really spring , with a high-nitrogen fertilizer ) . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the chanson on which it is based is really in C major with a number of V-I and I-V cadences ( see Ex. 57 ) . |
| 13 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 14 | Only join clubs , societies , or associations if the work or activity that they pursue is really of interest to you , though , or it is unlikely to be a success . |
| 15 | The other aspect of the question you raised is really that do you change a situation by the very fact that you 're doing an evaluation ? |
| 16 | So what we 're saying is really is that the defi definition and the role of local government should have been debated I think from starters . |
| 17 | The cly growing tall is an obvious biblical reference to Adam and therefore man being made from the clay and the question Owen is asking is really simply if man is merely born to die why was he ever born at all . |
| 18 | The National Union of Teachers fears that , because of its divisive potential , opting out will considerably weaken the educational system : ‘ What is proposed is really a means of reintroducing in a covert manner an elitist and centrally controlled system of direct grant schools on the lines of the grammar schools under the guise of increasing parental choice ’ . |
| 19 | I do not think that the problem which we have to solve is really assisted by considering in what respect his position is the same quoad the landlord as it was before the order was made . |
| 20 | The enemy that Kraal was trying to describe is really yourself , Creggan . |
| 21 | ‘ The number of tries I have scored is really a tribute to the way that our club side have been playing . |
| 22 | What follows is really two stories , one suspense , one human interest — how Lenny gets on with his brother , and what happens to the escaped prisoner . |
| 23 | What is meant is really that it is not possible to learn to sign like a deaf person , i.e. without an ‘ accent ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ You know perfectly well , Marler , that these days I only go after a story I think is really worthwhile . |
| 25 | If YOU spot a price reduction that you think is really a price increase , let us know . |
| 26 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 27 | Erm , having looked at all that , I think what the issue really boils down to essentially is the willingness of the County Council and I suppose the panel , having heard what er the debate , to accept what I think is really a modest level of flexibility er er requested by the District Council . |
| 28 | yeah definitely , although that essay I did today I think is really good , it 's probably the best one I 've ever written the grammar 's good , I do n't know whether , I do n't think the content 's particularly thrilling , but the grammar 's good |
| 29 | The pre-meeting I think is really quite important . |
| 30 | ‘ One thing they 'll think is really weird . |