Example sentences of "[am/are] not really [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to assess the number of garbage pickers , because this fluctuates seasonally and because they are not really enumerated in official statistics , but Birkbeck estimates that at the time of the study , there were between 1,200 and 1,700 garbage pickers in Cali . |
| 2 | Some of these fixed stars do , in fact , appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun : they are not really fixed at all ! |
| 3 | They have even been mistaken for a very loose cluster , though in fact they are not really associated with each other . |
| 4 | When Margaret Thatcher came on the show my nephew said to me , ‘ You 're not really welcome in this house after having THAT woman on the show . ’ |
| 5 | They 're , they 're not really related to true finances . |
| 6 | They 're not really used for serious cooking but are OK for making a hot drink en route . |
| 7 | That 's why we 're not really rushing into this , however precipitate it might seem on the surface . ’ |
| 8 | It is fighters which save them therefore the message is that they 're not really rescued at all because the world is in the same situation as the island . |
| 9 | I 'm not really living at all . |
| 10 | You could always stand back and say , ‘ I 'm not really going through all that angst and stuff , that 's just my persona . ’ |