Example sentences of "[was/were] really [verb] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 2 | Connecting with their deities , through consciousness raised by ritual , through dance or song , through drugs or sexual congress , they were really connecting with this primal force . |
| 3 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 4 | But back on the marshes and fens , who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation ? |
| 5 | One collector even suggested to Mr Laurentius that no one was really waiting for these new techniques and that it would be better for everyone if he stopped . |
| 6 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 7 | Belief in each other , however little was really known about that other , and belief in the cause , however nebulously described . |