Example sentences of "was really [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 2 | Reading English was really a literary way of reading History . |
| 3 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 4 | For Campbell , the designing of Ebberston was really a chance to perfect his Palladian dream in miniature , for it would have fitted into the hall at either of his famous houses , Houghton in Norfolk or Mereworth in Kent . |
| 5 | For him to die of pneumonia was really a terrible waste and I think David harboured a little … you ca n't blame someone for something like a person dying tragically with pneumonia , but I think he felt his mother should have watched over him more carefully , but I suppose that 's like saying the cat got drowned , why was the puddle there ? |
| 6 | The shed was really a garage but there was no car , just the carpets , two old cookers , and some broken chairs . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact he was really a very quiet and rather reserved man , who preferred to keep in the background rather than hog the limelight . |
| 8 | The barrio was a place where I felt freer than anywhere else in Salamanca , for it was really a land outside the law , where outcasts at last could feel at home . |
| 9 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 10 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 11 | It was really a sound investment , a first class mortgage , with very good security . |
| 12 | There were some families in which domestic help from a widowed grandmother was really a disguised form of assistance in the other direction . |
| 13 | Recently , I was very surprised to find that I was willing to go to bed with a guy and have intercourse , but then discovered that I was really a bit repelled by the idea of having him kiss me . |
| 14 | The ‘ Davni Chasy ’ issue was important because it helped both the band and RCA learn a great deal about each other , although it is probably closer to the truth to say it was really a case of RCA simply learning more about the staunch and pedantic attitude of The Wedding Present . |
| 15 | Do you also remember another New Testament scholar at Manchester who flipped and declared that the word ‘ Jesus ’ was really a code for a sacred mushroom and the Bible was a do-it-yourself manual for getting as high as the stars without leaving your body ? |
| 16 | For me , this was really a fantastic prospect , for we were to live in a college where we were to have our own bedroom , bathroom and sitting-room , and all meals provided . |
| 17 | To go into Cambridge at this time on our brief off-duty periods was really a life-saver and I used to go whenever I could , very often alone . |
| 18 | The banquet was really a frantic blur to Corbett . |
| 19 | From being a child to being an adult this apparent choice changed to the overriding , deep-rooted belief that I was actually a boy , that nature had somehow made a mistake biologically but that I was really a boy . |
| 20 | At heart , he was really a nice boy . |
| 21 | The Rosin ‘ home ’ was really a God-forsaken hole , for which the property-owner received a weekly rent . |
| 22 | Mother was really a good cook but that oven was not exactly reliable — indeed , I do not know how she managed to get such nice things out of it . |
| 23 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 24 | The excuse for the 1928 ‘ infirmary pie ’ was to raise £1,000 to endow in perpetuity a bed at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary , but to many people it was really a somewhat belated celebration of the end of the 1914–18 war . |
| 25 | As she stepped back to view the result , she realised that Martha was really a most attractive girl . |
| 26 | They both played on my stuff and we all played with Joe Walsh , which was really a great buzz , pounding out Rocky Mountain Way … ’ |
| 27 | In 1986 , TV Guide published a cover story entitled ‘ Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda ’ , in which it claimed that the Libyan hit team story was really a figment of a KGB campaign to spread alarm and ‘ to destabilise public opinion in the west ’ . |
| 28 | The gulf between people 's voting behaviour and the polls was really a time lag . |
| 29 | One persuasive suggestion , in the section on theosophy , is that Madame Blavatsky was really a man . |
| 30 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |