Example sentences of "really [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only have theories as to what might really be involved . |
| 2 | We do believe however that mutually rewarding relationships with colleagues , with pupils and with the parents of our pupils can only really be developed within their local political context , rather than by being researched , reported on and learned about in the abstract . |
| 3 | But this explanation is achieved only at the cost of excluding a very wide range of other factors , and offers us no coherent , integrated answer to the question ‘ What causes the peasant to observe this ethic ? ’ — a question that can not really be answered in this methodology . |
| 4 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 5 | Yeah Glasgow you would really be pushed to get though mind you the attendance at the Black Museum was quite good |
| 6 | It has been suggested that morality can not really be understood in terms of the means-end relationship since morality may demand that we relinquish a specific end ‘ including the end of one 's own moral perfection . ’ |
| 7 | These connections can only really be understood by looking at concrete historical instances . |
| 8 | This is all wrong , as chilli should really be made with pinto beans , a member of the kidney bean family . |
| 9 | They laughed when they saw the tea , and demonstrated in dumb show how it should really be made . |
| 10 | This is mainly because although some adjectives precedes others it is within a relatively small space of time and a comparison between adjectives relating to the situation versus those to the person can not really be made . |
| 11 | ‘ A man ’ — ‘ died ’ — could poor old Eddy , leaning drunkenly across the desk with his hand shading his eyes , really be fitted into those abstract , impersonal formulae ? |
| 12 | Some of the others — Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie , for example — could not really be said to have voices at all . |
| 13 | But Mr Baker argued that we could not really be said to have a national system at all when there is no nationally agreed curriculum . |
| 14 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 15 | As it is , all that can really be said is that the collective wisdom , such as it is , of the agency business favours bursts in most circumstances . |
| 16 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 17 | If Fordism in production did not develop very fully in the UK , can it really be said to have ‘ dominated ’ the economy and society ? |
| 18 | Very few English towns can really be said to have ‘ developed ’ from villages . |
| 19 | But perhaps our main concern was even more fundamental — could the behaviour of the injected mice really be said to show learning at all ? |
| 20 | All that can really be said with certainty is that quasi-governmental bodies generally operate in narrower , more specific areas than government departments or local authorities . |
| 21 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 22 | And I think that 's about all that can really be said about . |
| 23 | This should really be conducted in a negative sense by establishing whether the approach contains any constraint boundaries which will ensure that a successful design can never be achieved . |
| 24 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 25 | Erm it 's a community isolation because is like mountains around which makes barriers against physical mobility that ca n't really be moved round that easily . |
| 26 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 27 | This leads some adherents of psychoanalysis , especially those of a Lacanian disposition , to regard sexual difference — or rather hetero/sexual difference as it should really be called — as both tragic and heroic . |
| 28 | Neither Rosamond Lehmann nor Anita Brookner , for example , should really be called postmodernist , since they follow after modernism , adopting something of its idiom and methods , without , as McHale suggests , following on from the work of the modernists by not only adopting their idiom , but adapting it into recognizably new and separate extensions of their own . |
| 29 | The owner of Redi-Hot , who seemed to spend most of his time reading a guide book , told Mr and Mrs Wordmaster , who looked suitably impressed , that Thunder Bay , one of Canada 's largest ports , was at the far west end of the St Lawrence-Great Lakes seaway and should really be called what the locals called it , The Lakehead . |
| 30 | So perhaps it should really be called a mission syphilisatrice — in English a mission of syphilization , " yes ? |