Example sentences of "not really [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clever organiser with a history tutor on his hands may persuade the citizens of Chipping Camden that they do not really want a class in biology , they want one on Queen Victoria : but ( make no mistake ) that very persuasion will to some extent have injured the mainspring of voluntaryism in adult education in Chipping Camden . |
| 2 | I would like the same amount of performance as from the petrol engine therefore I do not really want a Land Rover Diesel . |
| 3 | Yes , but you 've got to just leave the the thing , come on I think they want to close , and I want to get to Marks , so do you not really want the collage kit at the moment , you 've got collage kit 's have n't you ? |
| 4 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 5 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 6 | Recent reprints of Royal Institution discourses , organized under disciplines , do not really give the flavour of the programme as a whole . |
| 7 | If Susanna Jennens had encouraged her to read and write at Weston Hall , Leapor could not really expect the same sort of understanding and support from another employer . |
| 8 | The NZRFU can not really expect the Home Unions to agree to short tours when they place matches on the last two Saturdays of a tour , and put the tourists against top-strength sides at major venues on the two preceding Saturdays . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , The Prelude did not really command a wide readership until the end of the nineteenth century , when the image of the poet as an old man ( 'Daddy Wordsworth' ) was finally replaced for younger readers with the more appealing picture of the revolutionary poet of the 1790s . |
| 10 | These independent family groups come together in assemblies for such things as war , religion , and the settlement of disputes , but they do not really form an organic whole . |
| 11 | Derkinderen and Crum do well to remind us of this , but it does not really invalidate the portfolio-grid approach . |
| 12 | Liberation theology is such a circle , but the theology does not really reflect the aboriginal spirituality , ’ he said . |
| 13 | We know for sure in Kuwait , being so close to the Palestinians , that the Palestinian leadership does not really represent the Palestinian people , and there is , within the leadership , erm qualms — they do n't all agree . |
| 14 | Haute couture in the tomb did not really preoccupy the majority of the populace and , in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the system of requisitioning a single linen sheet from the household supply seemed to be the norm . |
| 15 | A blonde in a bikini does not really enhance a jeep or a cuddly dog a power drill . |
| 16 | Wolverton was an area of narrow Nonconformist faith , and our comings and goings at strange times were viewed by some with disapproval and suspicion , especially since we could not really explain the necessity for the shift work . |
| 17 | More drastic cures , such as providing woollen garments covered in some noxious chemical substance , do not really cure the cat 's fixation . |
| 18 | The incitement provisions in the Act do not really extend the law greatly , since it is in any event a common law offence to incite another to commit an offence , even a summary offence . |
| 19 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 20 | The NIRA generated new enthusiasm and confidence , but it did not really bring the hoped-for economic recovery . |
| 21 | You could not really beat a Human 's skin . |
| 22 | Again , this is a philosophy that does not really fit the African scene . |
| 23 | Trespass did not really fit the case because the harm was consequential , not direct . |
| 24 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 25 | Actually , with a match rod and light line you do not really play a fish in the normal way , but rather you guide them , manipulate them , into the landing net . |
| 26 | Anyone can work out who the ‘ subspecies ’ Marxomanni , Mussolimini and Swastici are meant to represent , but they do not really play an important part in the story , since we can feel that John , the Pilgrim , is not really tempted or overwhelmed by them , any more than Lewis ever felt the slightest inclination to become a Maminst or a Fascist . |
| 27 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
| 28 | Some , like this , are provincial , but there is a beautiful head from Athens ( where there is also a parallel in vase-painting , below p. 79 ) , and one can not really apply the word to the masterpiece in this manner , the ‘ Ludovisi Throne ’ ( fig. 83 ) , though one can fairly say that it is outside the main stream . |
| 29 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 30 | Today , however , we do not really have a politics of opinion or of action — nothing is proposed that either stirs the blood or excites the mind . |