Example sentences of "not really [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clever organiser with a history tutor on his hands may persuade the citizens of Chipping Camden that they do not really want a class in biology , they want one on Queen Victoria : but ( make no mistake ) that very persuasion will to some extent have injured the mainspring of voluntaryism in adult education in Chipping Camden . |
| 2 | Recent reprints of Royal Institution discourses , organized under disciplines , do not really give the flavour of the programme as a whole . |
| 3 | Haute couture in the tomb did not really preoccupy the majority of the populace and , in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the system of requisitioning a single linen sheet from the household supply seemed to be the norm . |
| 4 | Wolverton was an area of narrow Nonconformist faith , and our comings and goings at strange times were viewed by some with disapproval and suspicion , especially since we could not really explain the necessity for the shift work . |
| 5 | Some , like this , are provincial , but there is a beautiful head from Athens ( where there is also a parallel in vase-painting , below p. 79 ) , and one can not really apply the word to the masterpiece in this manner , the ‘ Ludovisi Throne ’ ( fig. 83 ) , though one can fairly say that it is outside the main stream . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner . |
| 11 | We may not really know the frequency with which Rousseau heard it , but well before the Revolution it was heard only in extremis . |
| 12 | At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious . |
| 13 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 14 | Lilian , a girl who had acted irresponsibly , did n't really want a baby at all . |
| 15 | Sometimes I think Leila and Quincx do n't really give a damn about you . |
| 16 | Nor is it their job , 'cause they do n't really give a fuck about black people in the first place , you know ? ’ |
| 17 | A : They are complementary in the sense that you could n't really do an inspection without some documentation . |
| 18 | ‘ Because my mother works in a hotel shop where they do n't really go a bundle on employing married women in the first place , so I do n't want to get her all into a fluster for nothing . |
| 19 | Maybe she did n't really feel a chill in the air . |
| 20 | I did n't really feel a thing until about 5.30 p.m. when I began to feel a sort of tightening of the stomach , not a pain . |
| 21 | ‘ They could n't really think a man in Rodney 's position would have a motive for killing a little secretary , could they ? ’ |
| 22 | Well I I mean I actually the the leaf sculpture itself I I do n't really think a lot of it . |
| 23 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
| 24 | I had to spend three days in bed and did n't really kick a ball in the build-up to the Highfield Road game . |
| 25 | Between you and me and that barstool , I ca n't really tell the difference between their policies and ours . |
| 26 | Post-natal depression is a distressing phenomenon where women who have just given birth feel fed up , weepy , do n't like the baby , do n't want to be mothers , ca n't really take an interest in it . |
| 27 | Yes , you 're always wary of erm people like that you know , their reputation goes before them , and erm you do n't really see the ball till late , he just flicked it down , I just done enough to get down and erm you know , get my right hand to it and like , Steve Foster was following up well and that and you know , that 's the things that we 've got the run with us now . |
| 28 | You could n't really see the shape of the spots . |
| 29 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 30 | I told him that I did n't really see the point in him talking to Frank and me separately . |