Example sentences of "was really an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to 1968 the veterans ' organisation was called ‘ Fighters for Freedom' ’ which was really an umbrella organisation . |
| 2 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 3 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 4 | Well , now he had gone to find her , but if his Eileen was really an angel she doubted they would meet , for Paddy had been no saint . |
| 5 | His statement was really an invitation , an offer for her to think about , delivered in the confident style of one who was used to having his own way with women . |
| 6 | It was really an adaptation for people of the much earlier sledge used for transporting wine casks . |
| 7 | This was solid glass with a panoramic view over a forest-fringed lake , which was really an arm of the sea . |
| 8 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 9 | For all his socialist language he was really an old style Tory Radical , despising the ‘ system ’ yet not possessing a clear vision of what would replace it . |
| 10 | Thus , when Intel designed the 80486 processor , it was really an amalgam of the 386 processor and 387 maths co-processor into one package , together with some go-faster bits and bobs . |
| 11 | Well they were chronicles , in a sense , erm there were chronicles very frequently written by interested parties , and in the case of Clarendon 's History , it was really an attempt to look back over some experiences which he himself had had , and in a way it is a , a , a classic of its kind . |
| 12 | And so far as the local issue was concerned , of course it 's the issue of tertiary education and erm this was erm a question of erm the particular Governors and parents who wanted to opt out erm doing what the Iraquis are doing with their aeroplanes and they were basically trying to fly Banbury School to a neutral country ; the idea being that erm as soon as the procedure for opting out started the Local Education Authority would not be able to use any of erm Banbury School 's land or premises in part of its plans for tertiary education in Banbury , so it was really an attempt to neutralize Banbury School . |