Example sentences of "were really [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 2 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 3 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 4 | They were really a couple of characters . |
| 5 | Speculation about whether the Assassin troops believed that their experiences in the Alamut gardens fitted out as Paradise were really a dream , or whether the gardens ' compliant slaves were all too real in the flesh is thus academic . |
| 6 | You were really a part of her . |
| 7 | It is not difficult to see from Salmon 's publications why more orthodox contemporaries saw atheistical or extreme heretical ideas in them , although his four pamphlets , which were read widely in radical religious circles , were really a highly personal attempt to articulate a nearly inexpressible sense of union with the divine . |
| 8 | Rather , they argued , these concepts , which appeared as eternal , were really the product of the history of the system they maintained . |
| 9 | ‘ We were really the New Zealand equivalent of the Californian ‘ Beats ’ . |
| 10 | On a recent visit to the Imperial War Museum to see the new display relating to the Home Front , I could scarcely believe that the tiny quantities of food represented by the plastic replicas were really the weekly allowances by which we kept together body , soul and fighting spirit . |
| 11 | However , recently a spokesman for a well-known oil company claimed that they were really the Davids in this country and that the boot WAS on the other foot' Doubtless , central and local government would also claim that they are simply the servants of the public and not their masters . |
| 12 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 13 | Later , he was to learn that the terraces were really the best area , for here a woman would take pride in being seen to hand over some cast-offs , because , in a way , this indicated that she was well able to replace them . |
| 14 | Just as Rachel gave Hollywood an inkling of his class , and Desert Rats reassured them as to his reliability , The Robe showed that he could almost carry what were really the worn-out carcases of a clapped-out era . |
| 15 | They were really the first nudes that he had done since Jane Birkin posed topless in the Sixties . |
| 16 | But erm er the school days I think were were really the best days of our lives , but they we were the happiest days anyway because I enjoyed them and most kids enjoyed school in those days , not like it is today . |
| 17 | Or perhaps he knew that Warnham and Calcraft in Buckingham 's retinue were really the King 's agents . ’ |
| 18 | cos trolley buses , in this town were really the erm well I suppose they really came about , rather than motor buses right at the start because built trolley buses and so did of Laiston . |
| 19 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 20 | The foregoing both explains why Wulfstan 's legal texts have such a homiletic tone , and raises considerable doubts whether they were really the means by which Æthelred 's government implemented its decisions . |