Example sentences of "not really be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 2 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 3 | That legitimacy belonged to the spiritual jurisdiction could not really be contested by lay powers because no one could dispute the Church 's power over marriage . |
| 4 | Consistent data on the extent of temporary working are not available over time : the results from the mid-1970s worker-directed survey are in no way comparable with those of the 1984 employer-directed survey and also can not really be compared to those of the LFS . |
| 5 | But this explanation is achieved only at the cost of excluding a very wide range of other factors , and offers us no coherent , integrated answer to the question ‘ What causes the peasant to observe this ethic ? ’ — a question that can not really be answered in this methodology . |
| 6 | There are one or two Well there are two items in there which have n't really been resolved at this point and that 's the i the erm ins er where am I . |
| 7 | Erm it 's a community isolation because is like mountains around which makes barriers against physical mobility that ca n't really be moved round that easily . |