Example sentences of "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 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
| 3 | Simultaneous scores are disallowed ; in this case , one contestant 's punch has missed , so it is not really a simultaneous score at all ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There will be one group within the BMC and climbing that will say it was n't really a competition and that the rule was invented for television spectaculars . |
| 7 | ‘ The quarry is really a grotty little place with little to interest climbers . |
| 8 | Despite the up-front vocals , it is really a Pet Shop Boys record , all but three of the tracks are their compositions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of course , the well-groomed head of modern Bruges pops up all over the place to remind you that this is not really a medieval theme park at all . |
| 11 | ‘ They are now capable of taking two or three titles , though two years ago , they were not really a threat . ’ |
| 12 | This lack of cash flow does not worry the typical Thatcherite so-called ‘ entrepreneur ’ , who is not really a risk-taker . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 15 | It was n't really a management job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I am not really a hero , they were only small daysacks , but my fitness surprised me . |
| 18 | The charity shop 's not really a proper shop — it ai n't smart or none of that , and there 's just a couple of old women sitting by an electric fire and helping out customers when they want to try on clothes and that . |
| 19 | Reading English was really a literary way of reading History . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The result is that there is n't really a model which describes filmmaking in its full complexity . |
| 22 | Filmmaking is really a group activity . |
| 23 | If I am right , Notre Dame is really a temple to Mammon . |
| 24 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For Campbell , the designing of Ebberston was really a chance to perfect his Palladian dream in miniature , for it would have fitted into the hall at either of his famous houses , Houghton in Norfolk or Mereworth in Kent . |
| 27 | There were lots of dealers there and lots of dope going around and David , to some extent anyway , seemed slightly an outsider , being very quiet and just arranging the gigs , but he was never really a part of what was going on . |
| 28 | For him to die of pneumonia was really a terrible waste and I think David harboured a little … you ca n't blame someone for something like a person dying tragically with pneumonia , but I think he felt his mother should have watched over him more carefully , but I suppose that 's like saying the cat got drowned , why was the puddle there ? |
| 29 | The first tour in America was not really a tour . |
| 30 | It 's really a sort of personality freezer . |