Example sentences of "not really be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is significant since a weakness of nature can not really be escaped , but sin , on the other hand , can be repented of . |
| 2 | It can not really be called page makeup but it 's probably more useful for the businessman than any page makeup program . |
| 3 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 4 | Some of the others — Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie , for example — could not really be said to have voices at all . |
| 5 | But Mr Baker argued that we could not really be said to have a national system at all when there is no nationally agreed curriculum . |
| 6 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 7 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 8 | That legitimacy belonged to the spiritual jurisdiction could not really be contested by lay powers because no one could dispute the Church 's power over marriage . |
| 9 | This is mainly because although some adjectives precedes others it is within a relatively small space of time and a comparison between adjectives relating to the situation versus those to the person can not really be made . |
| 10 | She could not really be hearing all this , could she ? |
| 11 | It has been suggested that morality can not really be understood in terms of the means-end relationship since morality may demand that we relinquish a specific end ‘ including the end of one 's own moral perfection . ’ |
| 12 | Peggy thought she knew of at least another ten people who would not really be mourning the death of Henry Phipps . |
| 13 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 14 | Consistent data on the extent of temporary working are not available over time : the results from the mid-1970s worker-directed survey are in no way comparable with those of the 1984 employer-directed survey and also can not really be compared to those of the LFS . |
| 15 | But this explanation is achieved only at the cost of excluding a very wide range of other factors , and offers us no coherent , integrated answer to the question ‘ What causes the peasant to observe this ethic ? ’ — a question that can not really be answered in this methodology . |
| 16 | Intertidal limestone solution is at a much higher rate , 100 mm ( 4 in ) per 1000 years , but because of the low sea levels this could not really be expected to destroy reefs . |
| 17 | She told herself , it would not really be doing something for Andrée if it did not come hard . |
| 18 | Its Guide to Company Giving says that ‘ this can not really be considered a mainstream charitable expenditure , but more a self-interested expenditure by companies ’ . |
| 19 | Although we may be qualified to do so in certain areas , mainly commercial , we could not really be considered a top-class rugby-playing country strength-wise and have therefore decided not to bid . |
| 20 | As a general-purpose hot air gun , the Peugeot can not really be faulted . |
| 21 | Being in a coloured community where Celie lived , attacks and prejudices could not really be fought against . |
| 22 | These people can not really be criticised for doing their best with the resources available to them and could be brought into the new developments . |
| 23 | Could not really be modified . |
| 24 | Moreover this device would not really be aimed at the crucial needs involved . |
| 25 | Such planets can not really be thought of as having a surface , in the sense that the Earth has ; rather , we should regard them as being ‘ all atmosphere ’ . |
| 26 | There 's tremendous pressure on agencies to , you know , to send in the medicines , to send in the blankets , when they may not really be needed . |
| 27 | To what extent the level of knowledge of BSL is acceptable , given the needs of deaf people for interpreters and social workers , can not really be estimated from the data , which is relative to the types of measurement used . |
| 28 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 29 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |