Example sentences of "not really [vb infin] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A blonde in a bikini does not really enhance a jeep or a cuddly dog a power drill . |
| 6 | You could not really beat a Human 's skin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 12 | It is to show that Britain does not really have a constitution at all , merely a system of government , even if some parts of it are more important to our democratic order than others or are treated ( perhaps : were treated until Mrs Thatcher 's time ) with greater veneration . |
| 13 | ‘ Similarly , a region which felt hard done by a national government does not really have a remedy within the commission or the Court of Justice . ’ |
| 14 | The order of YAC probes shown in Fig 4 was also produced by probeorder , except that the order of the contigs was rearranged into map order , and the chimeric probes 9d8y and 10d8y ( which do not really have a unique position on the genome ) have been moved . |
| 15 | What is essential , he feels , is that such skills become a natural part of a player 's working life — not that the children are given a ‘ treatment ’ as the result of a dislocated training package directed by those who do not really understand a musician 's mind or motivation . |
| 16 | So obvious is this problem that it did not really need a questionnaire to highlight it . |
| 17 | The idea of Kevin 's rewarding him for his prowess with a real lunch somewhere acted as a spur to Jasper , but he did not really need a spur . |
| 18 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 19 | Thus , it does not really provide a viable method for generating analytic solutions for any given analytic description of the approaching waves . |
| 20 | These figures on their own do not really provide a full assessment of the effectiveness of planning . |
| 21 | Some companies operating in the consumer field have also seen the value of group luncheons in generating special features around products which are not very exciting and which do not really merit a series of individual lunches . |
| 22 | He knew that I did not really like a quiet life . |
| 23 | In 1835 , for example , just five years after Roberts had sketched the recumbent city of Jerusalem , we find the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine returning from a visit there to recommend to his readers in Voyage to the Orient that since Palestine did not really constitute a country , it presented remarkable opportunities for imperial or colonial projects . |
| 24 | And I do n't really want a phone , except to make sure about my brother 's coming . |
| 25 | He did n't really want a deeper involvement . ’ |
| 26 | Lilian , a girl who had acted irresponsibly , did n't really want a baby at all . |
| 27 | Well it 's bound to me , he must get fed up , but eh , he do n't really want a job like , full time , he wants to be able to he gets fed up of it being full time after a while . |
| 28 | Mum , there was a rabbit but we did n't really want a rabbit . |
| 29 | Well we do n't really want a long-haired ! |
| 30 | well I do n't really want an electric one , I can see missing a hole on here and |