Example sentences of "not really have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 2 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 3 | There was a general belief that our terms would not attract many takers and there was a suspicion that the Government did not really have its heart in the project in any event . |
| 4 | We do not really have to think about what has to be done . |
| 5 | Today , however , we do not really have a politics of opinion or of action — nothing is proposed that either stirs the blood or excites the mind . |
| 6 | As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner . |
| 7 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 8 | This involved frequent absences from home , so that , even if he had wished it , he would not really have been able to run the estates himself . |
| 9 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 10 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 11 | A visit to the local supermarket may well be within their experience , but they may not really have been involved with the shopping itself . |
| 12 | It has often been said that he did not really have any very clear idea of what he wanted from his Council ; and as far as content goes , that may be true . |
| 13 | Yet this formulation still has an implication which Bentham would not really have accepted . |
| 14 | It is to show that Britain does not really have a constitution at all , merely a system of government , even if some parts of it are more important to our democratic order than others or are treated ( perhaps : were treated until Mrs Thatcher 's time ) with greater veneration . |
| 15 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 16 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 17 | The underlying reason for this is that statutes do not really have ‘ corners ’ in the neat way postulated by theory . |
| 18 | Their proposal for a further education funding council does not really have any commitment . |
| 19 | But the lords of rail , mine and steel-mill can not really have expected to look paternally over their workers ' shoulders at all times , and they certainly did not do so . |
| 20 | ‘ Similarly , a region which felt hard done by a national government does not really have a remedy within the commission or the Court of Justice . ’ |
| 21 | The order of YAC probes shown in Fig 4 was also produced by probeorder , except that the order of the contigs was rearranged into map order , and the chimeric probes 9d8y and 10d8y ( which do not really have a unique position on the genome ) have been moved . |
| 22 | And the tremendous thing is that , Nicodemus may not really have been too sure of what his needs were . |
| 23 | ‘ I could n't really have been more lucky . ’ |
| 24 | Paul 's house was always full of people and Steve did n't really have a home at all — when his mum remarried , his stepfather could n't stand him and did n't want him around . |
| 25 | I think about my legs , but I do n't really have no feeling in them . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't really have any good times any more . |
| 27 | I do n't really have any ambitions to change in any drastic ways . |
| 28 | Well no , she did n't really have bad dreams — oh … but that was before … she remembered . |
| 29 | When you listen to one of the rather better Kylie records , they have taken a girl who does n't really have a great voice , who is an actress , and slowly they have developed a career where she actually now has a sound which is similar to some of the girly groups in the 60 ’ s , in a totally different way . |
| 30 | Martin Tweedle , head of Heckmondwike Grammar , Kirklees , is under no illusions : ‘ If Labour 's manifesto is to be believed , we do n't really have a future . |