Example sentences of "was not really a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first tour in America was not really a tour . |
| 2 | Our gesture was not really a religious one , for neither of us believed in the Roman Catholic faith and detested its oppressive hold on the Spanish people , particularly the poor . |
| 3 | It was not really a political movement ( the Communist Party began by opposing it ) but it aimed first to convert the Labour Party to unilateral disarmament and , by getting Labour elected , changing government policy . |
| 4 | He prayed she was wrong , that he was not really a nigger , because niggers were coal-black people who lived in holes in the ground in darkest Africa . |
| 5 | For a start , it was not really a country-house at all , rather a monstrosity on the edge of Bletchley town , with suburban dwellings stretching up to the gates . |
| 6 | Clover Roope , who later became a dancer , remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John 's stepsisters , and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with ‘ a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long , lanky figure , who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer , but gave the sense already that here was somebody important . ’ |
| 7 | He was not really a Hindu either . |
| 8 | The third idea unacceptable to Christians is that Jesus was not really a man at at all but God play-acting at being a man . |
| 9 | It was this aspect of Althusserian theory , perhaps more than any other , that led many orthodox Marxists to consider that Althusser was not really a Marxist at all . |
| 10 | Except that it was not really a decision , more an unthought-out reaction . |
| 11 | The machine was not really a steam engine as it had no moving parts . |
| 12 | The Coalition was not really a confluence of parties . |
| 13 | It was not really a question . |
| 14 | It was not really a sex scene in the nightgown on and Arnold was wearing his briefs . |
| 15 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 16 | The social desirability of either position was not really an issue , although needless to say it was copiously referred to . |
| 17 | There were those who might used that access to greater affect than Afshar , some who might have been more ruthless , perhaps , for he was not really an aggressive man . |
| 18 | The sight that greeted me was not really an encouraging one . |
| 19 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 20 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
| 21 | There will be one group within the BMC and climbing that will say it was n't really a competition and that the rule was invented for television spectaculars . |
| 22 | It was n't really a management job . |
| 23 | ‘ Genesis was n't really a group to start with ; it did n't really exist at Charterhouse . |
| 24 | Since the arrival of the letter a coldness had grown inside her , and a pain in her throat that was n't really a pain but a hard , tight ball of anger . |
| 25 | So I did — my mother had that drawing for many years — and then Mr Moore rang my mother and said that it was so nice having me in his class because I was so interested and keen , but there was n't really a lot of point , and would n't it be better if I played the piano ? |
| 26 | It was n't really a great help . |
| 27 | It was n't really a question but Preston corrected him , politely . |
| 28 | Apple , following its success in the desktop publishing market , was out to capture a new niche before anyone became aware that it probably was n't really a niche at all but a fairly well established business . |
| 29 | It was n't really a surprise . |
| 30 | The truth was that she did n't want Sam to be in love : not seriously in love with an older man , and the boy in the bistro was n't really a boy at all , being at least twenty-two . |