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

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1 Fifteenth at the moment six days but spring is really just when new things begin to grow and they 're definitely beginning to grow now .
2 The cly growing tall is an obvious biblical reference to Adam and therefore man being made from the clay and the question Owen is asking is really simply if man is merely born to die why was he ever born at all .
3 It is really only when the need is deliberately indulged in fact , or where circumstances in some way entrap the man or woman concerned into its indulgence that the paedophiliac becomes a danger to children .
4 All these people — ’ he gestured wildly with a carpet roll of arm — ‘ they imagine that they perceive what is really there but they do n't .
5 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 .
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