Example sentences of "not really [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There 's not really much room in here , you know .
2 In effect , it is as if the woman making the bar magnets suddenly realized that there were more questions to be asked about her job ; that pressing the button was not really much of an answer to the question ‘ How do you make magnets ? ’
3 Though Dan 's notes read ‘ another malfunction ’ , ‘ very accurate flak ’ , ‘ Capt Rumsey 's plane exploded ’ ‘ Intense flak over city ’ , when pressed for details Dan replies ‘ Not really much to tell .
4 Sixty foot drops are not really much to write home about when someone 's been caving as long as he has .
5 Which is sweet and touching , as you can imagine , but not really much practical help .
6 Unless it means something to you it 's not really much point .
7 And it 's not , you know , it 's not really much chemistry in it , especially if they do n't ask you f for this er equation but they just give it to you .
8 There 's not really much choice left by the time we get to the front of the queue . ’
9 This formulation , while recognising the separation of the political and economic levels in capitalist economies and emphasising the crucial role of ideology and hegemony , was not really much of an advance on the class theoretical accounts we discussed earlier .
10 ‘ It 's not really that useful to me right now .
11 They are not really that old , but taste like it .
12 ‘ Do n't worry , ’ said the reporter , ‘ We 're not really that kind of paper . ’
13 Er not really , no , not really that er er political activity was left er to my mother .
14 You , you can defer a state pension , but it 's not really that , that viable .
15 But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there it 's not really that Pilate is standing in , in the trial as the judge of Jesus , it 's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus , that 's not the important issue , that 's not the real significance of this incident , the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood .
16 five months , it 's not really that
17 Except Jeremy and Caroline , who are not really that interested
18 There 's not really many ghost stories on the island I do n't think .
19 There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such .
20 A woman can say , I 'm not really this , I 'm that ; but if she stays home , the home makes known its needs like a wailing baby .
21 This is not really another discipline , just another way of running a race .
22 I 'm not really some of them do , the younger ones and that a bit .
23 It was not really any use .
24 He felt that there were not really any nasty tackles .
25 ‘ All the same though , Pat , what I 'm doing with you is not really any different to what Lizzy did with the drugs .
26 There was not really time to think about Caspar and there was not really any energy to spare to think about him , either .
27 and yet it 's not really any distance , into .
28 ‘ That 's right , and that 's not really any of our business .
29 Not a lot was spent on acquisitions er and not really any material disposals other than the ones already referred to .
30 Do n't need a not really any good .
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