Example sentences of "which [is] really " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both kinds of representation betray fears and fantasies about sexual passivity and sexual promiscuity : women then , and gay men now , are imagined to engage in a passive promiscuity which is really an unquenchable appetite for destruction ; AIDS has ‘ reinforced the heterosexual association of anal sex with a self-annihilation originally and primarily identified with the fantasmatic mystery of an insatiable , unstoppable female sexuality ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although horses only see in black and white , which is really varying forms of grey like in black and white photographs , they are much more conscious of colour than we would expect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Another hypothesis , which is really an adaptation of the first , is that Lady Hoby , finding the boy 's shoddy work , thrashed him across the head and shoulders with a blackthorn stick and then found out , too late , that she had gone too far — William was dead . |
| 7 | He thought , there is wanting to go to bed with someone , which is really just an erection ; and there is the kind of wanting which extends beyond the night into the day , the kind where you spend all day waiting , sometimes several days . |
| 8 | ‘ No stock-taking ’ policies are adopted partly because of staffing shortages , but also on the premise that stock-taking is a waste of time because it does not bring back the missing books , and any item which is really important will be requested on reservation ( though a central reservation system , if employed , may mean that missing titles go unnoticed ) . |
| 9 | First , a brand name , which is really the manufacturer 's trade mark . |
| 10 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |
| 11 | The joy was great , both upon the occasion of the day , and the work 's being completed , which is really a wonderful undertaking . |
| 12 | I mean , wages , benefits from the welfare state — the cost of reproducing labour power , which is really what the wages for housework argument turns on , this cost is covered in a variety of ways — not adequately , that 's true and working class women are most vulnerable , but I do n't think we can say simply that housework , childcare is given free , is not paid for at all . |
| 13 | Therefore I suggest Mr Osborne tries inserting joysticks in both the ports and then enjoy the game which is really fun to play ( and hopefully put it on the Megatape after all ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've also used an Ibanez Satriani guitar , which is really inspiring and so speedy up the top end of the neck . ’ |
| 15 | The two usual options are either a big block , like on the back of a Strat , which is really hard to deal with , or there 's nothing , because they 've sanded it all away . |
| 16 | My other music influence was Western Swing , which is really just white man 's blues , so I decided that the only way to make a living in France was to play that kind of music . |
| 17 | Which is really refreshing . |
| 18 | Unfortunately for Brooks , the potential market share for the Beast is likely to be about as high as that enjoyed by the Land Rover , which is really a function of its specialist design rather than any deficiency in the shoe . |
| 19 | However , a right-angle guide can be bought as an accessory to keep edges and faces of timber at 90°C , which is really useful , as it is easy to take off too much wood from one side or the other . |
| 20 | Mary was a stickler for accuracy , which is really needed in this job ; you also need a lot of patience to tackle it effectively . |
| 21 | Wood , which is really a craftsman 's material , does not take kindly to the inevitable abuses of an emergency . |
| 22 | Which is really easy to do in artificial environments . |
| 23 | Another time I went to St Kew primary , which is really small and right out in the middle of nowhere , and they made me feel really welcome . |
| 24 | He insidiously suggests that my ‘ motivation ’ was not altogether ‘ untainted ’ , which is really rather sordid . |
| 25 | At each level , the word list has been created with an eye to current concerns so that students are exposed to an up-to-date vocabulary which is really relevant to their needs . |
| 26 | If hypocrisy formally resembles irony in operating on two levels in its systematic inversion of the truth , Iago here uses an old form of irony , the mock-apologia , which is really an attack . |
| 27 | I shall be suggesting in Part Two that the basic idea of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ , and of all value , arises similarly from what feels good or bad to us , and that here again this good and bad which is demoted to the role of what only feels so is ultimately the value which is really there in the world , besides which the good and bad of our social construction of reality is only a kind of useful fiction . |
| 28 | But a quality which is really a power to produce feelings or sensations in an observer is in its way a perfectly real and objective quality . |
| 29 | And apparently her view now is that because the Government ha have said , anybody who is interested in becoming a in nineteen ninety three , must register an interest on sixteenth this year , which is really , that 's , you know , there legislating for what they have n't got any power in nineteen ninety three . |
| 30 | So , erm , I mean , that was , we thought I came to a discussion about young people which is really good and it really did have people in your age group interesting . |