Example sentences of "[was/were] really [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were really those . |
| 5 | Some say the failed policy was really that of John Major , as shown by his devotion to the Maastricht Treaty which would lead to Monetary union . |
| 6 | Everyone knew what she had done , but no one was really that conce with it . |
| 7 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
| 8 | If this was really all we were fighting for , it seemed very feeble . |
| 9 | And that was really all they were concerned with . |
| 10 | Team skipper Sylvia Goodall , 55 , said yesterday : ‘ Some of the girls DID go to extremes — but it was really all in fun . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever I said , any public discussion left people ( including , I feared , our own staff ) with a confused idea that it was really all a matter of who slept with whom . |
| 12 | For some members of staff , study skills was what the ESSE/L Project was really all about . |
| 13 | Then towards the end she had lost her temper completely and declared that if the listeners wanted to find out what it was really all about , they had better write to her . |
| 14 | My daughter 's welfare seemed far more important , and it was really all I thought about . |
| 15 | Er that was really all the advice we could give . |
| 16 | This small growth in overall net disincentive effect between 1956 and 1968 , and its being more pronounced at higher-income levels , was really all the empirical support there was in the UK for those suggesting that higher taxes discouraged work effort . |
| 17 | It 's analysis of the egos as , as we 've been seeing , in analysis was really all , all it could do at the beginning , after the First World War , shall we say . |
| 18 | His Protestant voice told the nation that Lady Thatcher might speak in Thursday 's debate on race , for that was what it was really all about or , on the other hand , she might be asked to take the chair for John Major 's Leader 's address on the Friday afternoon . |
| 19 | That sounded expensive , and limited spending money was really all she had at her disposal , but could she seriously spend even one night under the same roof as that … that arrogant … libertine ? |
| 20 | It was really all his own fault , for not doing what he was told . |
| 21 | This presented a sizeable engineering problem : although INOC managed to find a solution , it was really little more than a stopgap and the long-term answer proved to be the negotiation of an arrangement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 22 | He wondered , in his confusion , whether an encounter such as theirs was really some sort of apparition , not real at all . |
| 23 | Oh it was really those are flapjacks . |
| 24 | I do n't think so , th the point is I 'm not going to be called to tie a knot like this again for maybe three weeks and then by then I 'll make things up it was really more for convenience than sitting down trying to work it out myself so you know . |