Example sentences of "not really " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not really . |
| 2 | In reality , most attorneys have made almost no preparation for this phase and do not really understand it . |
| 3 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 4 | Well , not really . |
| 5 | Peggy thought she knew of at least another ten people who would not really be mourning the death of Henry Phipps . |
| 6 | That was not really Kezia 's name . |
| 7 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 8 | ‘ No , not really . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Er , not really , no . |
| 10 | Traditionally , however , indoor bulbs are planted in shallow ceramic or plastic bowls without drainage holes , but it is not really necessary to use specially designed containers . |
| 11 | It is not really worth saving seeds from F1 hybrids or from most fruit varieties as these rarely reproduce true to type . |
| 12 | The whys and wherefores of these procedures need to be explained to students , otherwise they might conclude that proper parking is not really important and that it is alright to leave a glider with either wing down . |
| 13 | The accident caused considerable consternation and it became clear , talking to the members present at the launch point , that many pilots did not really understand all the factors which caused the accident . |
| 14 | Furthermore , he will know that his contemporaries are not really too keen on its revelation : indeed they may well argue that the police have research facilities of their own which are geared up to the internal needs and interests of the institution ( Benyon 1988 : 21 ) . |
| 15 | The inference in this was not really about the career chances of the still tiny percentage of graduates ( who are obviously well aware that their chances of reaching the highest echelons are constrained by the limitations in the numbers of top posts ) , rather it was a reassertion that those with a degree are almost a different species and remain a threat to the stability of the institution . |
| 16 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |
| 17 | Simultaneous scores are disallowed ; in this case , one contestant 's punch has missed , so it is not really a simultaneous score at all ! |
| 18 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 19 | It is pretty certain that , in term of what adults mean by ‘ longer ’ the children do not really think that the pencil is longer ; but why do they say this ? |
| 20 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 21 | It does not really matter what the answer is . |
| 22 | ‘ No , not really . |
| 23 | On the surface of his mind lies the contrast between a trivial though tormenting fear and a monstrous scheme ; and beneath that contrast appears a positive contradiction : for a few sentences earlier we have been told ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ . |
| 24 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 25 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 26 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 27 | That Raskolnikov is not really afraid is , in its latent truth and force , what he tells himself . |
| 28 | If the instrument is only to be an indicator of magnetic activity then calibration is not really necessary . |
| 29 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |
| 30 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |