Example sentences of "really be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only problem is that the Dutch have not really been very good at the game since Dr Euwe retired . |
| 2 | The years of decline had not really been reversed . |
| 3 | Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around . |
| 4 | You see the same thing in our kind of business , but we 've really been operating in international markets for much longer and it 's a slower process . |
| 5 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |
| 6 | Nurse Rose had really been very helpful , Mrs Fanshawe thought . |
| 7 | But had he really been ill or had he been shamming , crafty sick to give himself extra time in Leeds ? |
| 8 | No , there had never really been anything in Mr McCloy 's behaviour to make them believe he was n't a man of integrity . |
| 9 | Sarah Loosemore is Britain 's youngest at 18 , just back from her three A levels and injury , eager to prove she has never really been away . |
| 10 | Sarah Loosemore is Britain 's youngest at 18 , just back from her three A levels and injury , eager to prove she has never really been away . |
| 11 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |
| 12 | But has it really been tougher than before ? |
| 13 | Since numerals do not stand for ‘ numbers in abstract ’ but for ‘ particular things numbered ’ , the misguided interest in the properties of such abstractions has really been a trifling concern with mere language or formalism . |
| 14 | The card had really been intended for those regularly bought by a mad old lady to be laid beside the bust of Karl Marx in his local cemetery . |
| 15 | All the happenings of the night had mixed together so that he no longer knew whether he had really been woken and heard the Woman 's hushed , hissing voice and the faint News from the radio . |
| 16 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 17 | They have asked if Jewish women have ever really been included in the Jewish covenant . |
| 18 | What had he really been saying as they sat among the trees ? |
| 19 | I am not a prying woman , I have never really been interested in the affairs of others , I would never examine the contents of their drawers and cupboards and bathroom cabinets , as Isabel did , wherever we went to stay . |
| 20 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 21 | Fags and mags are not the kind of things people give up lightly , and so recession has not really been a problem for T&S . |
| 22 | Perhaps it has really been so much hot air . |
| 23 | In the years that followed endless analyses were made to try and determine whether Penkovsky had really been what he seemed . |
| 24 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 25 | He had never really been allowed near his daughter . |
| 26 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 27 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |
| 28 | So , until recently , the ideas behind the movement have largely remained at the level of slogans and their deeper implications have not really been worked out . |
| 29 | If there has really been no response , wait for a time depending on the vigour and severity of the illness ( see para. 2 ) . |
| 30 | I gather that the cloth has really been dated , found to be the wrong age and that disposes of the matter . |