Example sentences of "[be] really [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , music 's a great channel for releasing your emotions but if you 're really that unhappy why do n't you just do something about your life ? |
| 2 | Okay , so they may ask you to use something which you have n't necessarily had to do before so that they 're really all that the examiner 's testing is that you 've got a little bit of nous , a little bit of savvy and with what you 've got available you can improvise a dressing or use the dressing in a sensible manner so that your casualty 's comfortable and you 're doing the best you can for them , okay ? |
| 3 | To call the Emperor 's troops an army is perhaps misleading , as there are really many different armies as well as garrison troops scattered throughout the Empire . |
| 4 | So if computers are really that ordinary and familiar , what 's so special about them ? |
| 5 | Also , dreary though the suggestion sounds , if economies look like being the order of the day , two-car families might assess whether , come retirement when perhaps husband and wife will be doing more things together , two cars are really such an essential as before . |
| 6 | Examples of this kind could readily be multiplied , but it does not follow that the different methods espoused are really all that different in their fundamental orientations . |
| 7 | At the same time , the references to the rock tradition , especially rhythms , are really all that serve to affix the music to the location of a ‘ popular ’ audience . |
| 8 | Although they seem very different , they are really all equivalent . |
| 9 | In one form or another these issues , which are really all variations of the same issue , are of very long standing , but the style in which they are presented is liable to change very rapidly . |
| 10 | It 's , it 's finding out which ones are really any good . |
| 11 | If social costs are really this small , perhaps there are more important things for the government to worry about in designing economic policy . |
| 12 | What we think of as elementary particles are really these little loops vibrating in different ways . |
| 13 | ‘ There are really some very pretty places in this city , ’ Terry McIntosh assured me . |
| 14 | They have n't got any thing have like , no , I tried that with er Tim , cos Sainsbury 's would of been really more on your way would n't it ? |
| 15 | Well , no the other day he said if I 'm really that bad you just tell me and I 'll go down and sleep on the sofa . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm really any different , ’ said Ruth . |
| 17 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 18 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 19 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 20 | They were really those . |
| 21 | You get to talk to each other face-to-face … and now that we 've had all this publicity from the event , the slogan is really much more value to both of us . ’ |
| 22 | Here is something that seems very like intelligence , and we must ask whether it is really that , or merely another clever but mechanical programming finesse that we do not yet see . |
| 23 | Further investigation will show that the fear is not just the threat of punishment for the act or thought which instigated the feeling , for that fear can be there in those who are not worried by consciences ; it will emerge that the fear is really that of falling into disfavour with fellow beings and loved ones . |
| 24 | But the doctors have to consider whether the decision is really that of the patient . |
| 25 | The other aspect of the question you raised is really that do you change a situation by the very fact that you 're doing an evaluation ? |
| 26 | That is what subsidy is really all about . |
| 27 | So , come here and find out what a top international resort is really all about . |
| 28 | The skinhead retreat into white ethnicity — for that 's what the flag waving is really all about — is , simply , the Last Resort . |
| 29 | Let me try to find out what it is really all about . |
| 30 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |