Example sentences of "really a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Glen was really a race between Jody Scheckter and Hunt . |
| 2 | Though it was really a bar , Le Rosebud , down a side street in Montparnasse ) . |
| 3 | Was his old Bones really a Gold Cup winner ? |
| 4 | The cases fall into two categories : those in which the disposition described in the problem is evidently a legacy , yet the petitioners describe it as a trust ; and the opposite case , where the petitioners describe as a legacy what is really a trust . |
| 5 | The creation of such multiple scenarios is not really a cop-out . |
| 6 | It was really a battle of wills . |
| 7 | It is highly courageous to launch a frontal attack on the main lines and the main structure of nature , and cowardly to advance by aspects and details ; art is really a battle . |
| 8 | The ‘ complete observer ’ is really a bird-watcher by another name and as such has already been dealt with . |
| 9 | But , it 's it 's not really a deterrent , that 's the point we 're making is n't it ? |
| 10 | Two wives and a mistress , who is n't really a mistress , but would like to be one , if I 'm not mistaken . " |
| 11 | When is a ghost movie not really a ghost move ? |
| 12 | Part woman-in-peril thriller , part comic financial caper , part romantic weepie , it 's a lot of things but it is n't really a ghost story , not in the conventional sense . |
| 13 | But I was really a ghost who came to call . |
| 14 | ‘ Everybody says they see the Opera ghost , but there is n't really a ghost . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gamesmanship apart , is there really a chance to salvage the best opportunity yet for peace in the Basque region ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Trying to keep her voice calm , and almost choking on the tears of guilt that had come to her eyes the moment she heard her aunt speak , Constance said , ‘ Oh , Aunt Louise , I 've met a boy … no , not really a boy … a young man ’ — and she began to sob . |
| 19 | The truth was that she did n't want Sam to be in love : not seriously in love with an older man , and the boy in the bistro was n't really a boy at all , being at least twenty-two . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I mean that was really a breakthrough . |
| 22 | If it 's too close together it 's like it 's not really a concession . |
| 23 | It is not really a cost of living index since many goods of a luxury nature are included and several items ( e.g. income tax , insurance premiums , etc. ) for which it is hard to identify ‘ units ’ of sale are excluded . |
| 24 | The other major feature of the north Norfolk coast is Blakeney Point ( Fig. 8.23 ) , which differs from those already described in being tied to the coast at its eastern end near Sheringham , and is thus really a spit and not an offshore bar . |
| 25 | There were lots of dealers there and lots of dope going around and David , to some extent anyway , seemed slightly an outsider , being very quiet and just arranging the gigs , but he was never really a part of what was going on . |
| 26 | ‘ The trimming and upholstery shop is reached through the paint shop , of which building it is really a part ’ . |
| 27 | These nematocysts , however , are not really a part of the sea slug . |
| 28 | You were really a part of her . |
| 29 | We have n't , I think , hitherto seen that they 're really a part of programming . |
| 30 | It is n't really a day for the beach , but I 'm tired of my sewing . |