Example sentences of "[is] really a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this monologic Amis can be set , by way of alter ego , the modernistic Amis of Barbara Everett 's discussion of Difficulties with girls , which occurred in the course of an essay on Hugh Kenner 's fantasy of a British betrayal of Modernism , and which springs the surprise of conveying that Amis , so often supposed an enemy of Modernism , is really a Modernist . |
| 2 | Piaget 's claim that thinking is a kind of internalized action , exemplified in the assimilation-accommodation theory of infant learning mentioned above , is really a global assumption in search of some refined , detailed and testable expression . |
| 3 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 4 | ‘ The quarry is really a grotty little place with little to interest climbers . |
| 5 | Despite the up-front vocals , it is really a Pet Shop Boys record , all but three of the tracks are their compositions . |
| 6 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I think many people think the present system is really a lottery within a lottery to the prejudice of the Crown , defendants and justice alike . |
| 8 | In Capital Marx argues that as a result of the peculiar history of capitalism , the capitalist , who is really a parasite on the workers , is represented as though he were the opposite ; as the source of production and the benefactor of the workers . |
| 9 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 10 | Filmmaking is really a group activity . |
| 11 | If I am right , Notre Dame is really a temple to Mammon . |
| 12 | Lots of parents , and the odd nanny or two , provide back-up references for Santa explaining that little so-and-so is really a very good child . |
| 13 | is sometimes referred to as Italian rice , and is really a short grain rice , although slightly longer than the traditional round grain pudding rice . |
| 14 | Other spices that you may only be able to find in a delicatessen include juniper berries , which are used to flavour gin and are essential when cooking game casseroles ; tamarind seed , which is really a dried pulp and is used in curries ; and annatto which is a small seed used in latin American cookery . |
| 15 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 16 | A codicil is really a supplementary will , and is generally used for making some alteration in a will without revoking it as a whole . |
| 17 | A week or two spent in preparation is really a comparatively short time to plan the necessary changes . |
| 18 | A S THIS campaign rumbles on I long for John Major to stand up either on his soapbox ( which is really a box for transporting Central Office typewriters but no matter ) or on one of the Conservative Party 's all-singing , all-dancing stage sets , and say : ‘ I have brought you a dramatic drop in the rate of inflation . |
| 19 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
| 20 | ‘ Everything is really a chemical , ’ he cried one day to a pupil who said they wanted to learn about something else . |
| 21 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 22 | The essence of the shot is really a low back swing with an almost exaggerated follow through . ’ |
| 23 | This , coupled with its comparative rarity in the Western world , has lead some of the more cynical amongst physicians to doubt its very existence , and to suggest that it is really a collection of ulcerative genital conditions including herpes and trauma . |
| 24 | This general description of the countryside oversimplifies what is really a very complicated pattern of soils and climate . |
| 25 | Gregory is wrongly seen by many as a passive and reserved figure , when he is really a strong , assertive person . |
| 26 | This type of statistical work is about inferring things from the data and is really a sophisticated form of guesswork . |
| 27 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | a dilettante artist , a protégé of John Jarndyce 's who affects a childlike gaiety and simplicity but is really a shameless sponger ; his apparent innocence of worldly concerns is sedulously fostered to relieve him of any common responsibilities . |
| 29 | Bond ( 1988 ) discusses a self-help scheme of assertiveness training which , although geared to nurses , is really a specific application of general principles which can assist good communication in any context . |
| 30 | It is really a psychological approach to the confused elderly person which aims to improve and maintain their level of functioning by stimulating them and their environment . |