Example sentences of "but it [is] really " in BNC.

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1 The addition of herbs and spices in many combinations produces a wonderful variety of flavoursome sausages to grace any supper table , but it is really only black pudding , a breakfast sausage made with large pieces of pork back fat and pig 's blood , thickened with a cereal ( usually oatmeal or barley ) , that survives as a similar food to the continental salami or saucissons .
2 Easter Island , where the traverse starts , is entirely volcanic but it is really only an insignificant scrap of land in the vast Pacific .
3 At first sight this might all look very technical , but it is really fairly simple , and an understanding of the theory of how a board works will help you to progress beyond a beginner 's level .
4 But it is really to support her — he seems fine . ’
5 ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ I know we all call this place the summer-house , and it is only used to keep salmon nets and baskets in nowadays , but it is really a gazebo , where the local gentry used to meet their ladies of ill repute in the old days . ’
6 But it is really just technique .
7 This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces .
8 Poole is the closest that the diocese gets to a city ( Salisbury itself , though technically a city , retains the air of a comfortable market town ) but it is really a string of suburbs — suburbs in which thrive those evangelical and charismatic parishes that are so alarming to the decent Dorset traditionalist .
9 But it is really a curse .
10 Subsequently , Step 3 , " Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him " is more demanding of one 's resources of humility ( as indeed are all the Steps ) but it is really a logical progression from Steps I and 2 .
11 The many functions that have been proposed for it range from sound transmission to drilling holes in ice ; but it is really used in aggressive fighting among males .
12 In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort .
13 I look out of the window at my car , but it is really the street I am interested in .
14 But it is really not for him to argue the case about taxes because , as we well know — Opposition Members do not like that .
15 But it is really important that there should be another interview with another interpreter , and that it should be before the adjudicator in the application for leave .
16 And some spake up saying , Well , all right , but it is really nothing but a Co incidence ; iii .
17 Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away .
18 But it is really six though int it ?
19 Yeah , so they reckoned it 's not a scrapbook , but it is really .
20 Mum 's big too but it 's really all just fat .
21 It ai n't too uncomfortable , but it 's really blummin cold .
22 We give them their induction pack ( see page 41 ) to look at later , but it 's really to get to know the layout , because we have quite a large building .
23 It 's a bit too complicated to explain right now but it 's really unavoidable so I wo n't be able to ride out tomorrow .
24 Operating the TriAxis is pretty simple : some idea of the basics of processors and things digital will help , but it 's really not essential .
25 Of course , if you want to perform with it then you can mike it up just as easily as any other guitar , but it 's really a player 's instrument — a guitar for the kitchen , if you like .
26 ‘ People might see it as a joke , but it 's really wearable , ’ says Udo .
27 More like turpentine , but it 's really effective .
28 I think this is tosh myself , but it 's really up to first ascensionists , so send me details if you wish .
29 But it 's really a chemical reaction …
30 But it 's really not just a closed coterie .
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