Example sentences of "[not/n't] really [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not really worth saving seeds from F1 hybrids or from most fruit varieties as these rarely reproduce true to type . |
| 2 | Then the dream suddenly changes to nightmare when you hear voices say that they wo n't be able to look after your health because you 're not really worth it : that the treatment you need is not cheap enough so you 'll have to do without : that they would love to provide care for you in the community , but the price is n't right . |
| 3 | These shrimps are therefore an excellent choice for the aquarium while harlequins are not really worth considering . |
| 4 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 5 | The critical problem for Esperanto , as for any other artificial language , is that it is not really worth learning until a lot of already people speak it . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the bits in between are hard work and ultimately are not really worth the bother . |
| 7 | we said , well it 's not really worth , from your company 's point of view , such an expensive piece of equipment for a I mean , was doing the process thing then , you know , we could utilize the equipment elsewhere . |
| 8 | Yeah we could do with decorating , but it 's not really worth it |
| 9 | Not really worth it is she ? |
| 10 | Once they start going off it 's not really worth having them , so . |
| 11 | It was big enough for two but not really for three , especially when one of them was a great big lout . |
| 12 | The equally monolithic image of the male saint , Demetrios on his charger , is not really for us either . |
| 13 | As for the communal bath : it 's not really for washing . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not really for all this women 's lib business , but I go for what this young lady says . |
| 15 | Furthermore , perhaps we should at least ask whether cremation is not really for the convenience of public health , efficiency , and land conservation rather than for people . |
| 16 | That 's not really for publication . |
| 17 | Now it 's not really for my information . |
| 18 | You see it 's not really for me to do . |
| 19 | The occasional comment one hears that Parker plays the way he is here simply because he was by that time a seasoned performer and recording artist is not really to the point ; Parker was a naturally developmental musician . |
| 20 | They feel that Shetlanders do not appreciate the sacrifices they are making : instead they suspect they are being regarded by Shetlanders as a nuisance not really to be welcomed and as far as possible to be ignored altogether . |
| 21 | It 's got a somewhat scrappily-engraved ‘ SRV ’ scratchplate , a ‘ signed ’ headstock , a left-handed trem , Fender 's own Texas Special pickups and , for some inexplicable reason , gold hardware throughout — not really to my taste , and Fender would never have put custom gold bits on a standard sunburst Strat in the old days . |
| 22 | But this criticism is not really to the point . |
| 23 | Whether the security could be upheld if the only ground for impeaching it was that Mrs. Duval had no independent advice has not really to be determined . |
| 24 | And certainly they took a casual attitude to vegetables , clearly regarding them as very second-rate fodder and not really to be taken seriously . |
| 25 | Lord Denning is 91 and not really to be held responsible for views arising from senility . |
| 26 | Not really with me … ’ she paused and looked up into Miss Hatherby 's troubled face ‘ … she felt that you had done it because you did n't approve . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm not really with it . |
| 28 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 29 | Erm I 'm not really with you . |
| 30 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |