Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] really [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I felt much happier after talking to you , although nothing 's really changed . ’
2 But if you look deeper into it , you 'll find that it 's really calculated to give us inferior education and deny us full rights as human beings .
3 It seems that it 's really going to happen .
4 We know now that it 's really needed to count the vessels because we will get definitely more information .
5 At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way .
6 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
7 There is a risk that what is intended to be an aid only during training can become an undesirable crutch in that performance comes to depend on it but this is rare and can be avoided by using a suitable time delay , thus ensuring that it is really learning and not action feedback .
8 There are moments of natural awakening to one 's own beauty , but it is rare that it is really appreciated in the early years of womanhood ; usually it is taken for granted , and only lamented when it is gone .
9 ‘ She 's delighted we 've got Place and that he 's really banged up .
10 I mean there 's been a couple of times that he 's really lost his temper with her and erm and , and really flown off the handle , badly .
11 ‘ I do n't suppose he 's ever done anything that he 's really wanted to do .
12 He was all over us last week , and now that he 's really needed , he 's nowhere to be found .
13 A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’
14 He has the less scruple in issuing such orders because he can say that he is really doing what is in the man 's own highest interest .
15 I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God .
16 It should be obvious that what is really implied here is the rapid repetition of the complete chords , which would be impossible on the piano at the required speed .
17 It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing .
18 But Greenpeace says that what 's really needed is more action by the Government to stop pollution :
19 The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’
20 ‘ She wants me to give it up and she 's really going to kick my tail this time , ’ he said .
21 She 's trying to be very nice and she 's really fuming Have you er finished with your tea ?
22 Only a thousand people a year use it ; but it 's useful if she 's really decamped and you do n't know where she is .
23 We 've got to have soldiers if there 's really going to be a war . ’
24 He just has n't got a clue , apparently he said last night he never thought it would be so hard , he had a confession with Liz or something , never thought it would be so hard and he 's really struggled this year , really , really hard work , nothing like being a deputy which to me he 's an idiot if he did n't know that , he 's feeling guilty about the phone bill , but has n't got any money at all for anything
25 Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it .
26 And he 's really getting frustrated cos he could n't go and then she said well no , you 've got ta do it !
27 And he 's really pissed off .
28 They know the accommodation you see and it 's really grot !
29 ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people .
30 I know that 's all I 've got , everyone 's going and I say blah blah blah blah blah and then someone else comes up and says what 's that Walkman for and it 's really beginning to annoy me .
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