Example sentences of "[adv] really [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my part of the world , which is north east England and especially County Durham , nobody much really believes all this talk about an industrial and economic recovery which will be so strong and so widespread that most people will be back in the sort of jobs they used to have , providing they get the necessary training . |
| 2 | I do n't know why I 'm not really using this er this pointer . |
| 3 | Though their studies provide very little direct evidence on why teachers teach the way they do ( they were not really asked this ) , explanations are advanced all the same . |
| 4 | ‘ She did not really give any reason why . |
| 5 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 6 | If it 's simply a matter of producing a vehicle which uses less fuel , however , the electric car , surprisingly , does not really offer any advantages over petrol cars . |
| 7 | You 're not really given any background either . |
| 8 | However , all policemen belonged to lineages , and consequently the police force could not really handle those events ( such as the Ajdabiya elections ) which resulted in massive mobilization of populations : not because the numbers were too great , but because the police force did not contain enough men uninvolved on either side . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not really reading that book , you 're just trying to look smart , ’ when she sat under a tree with some well-worn treasure . |
| 10 | ‘ I know you 're not really reading that book . |
| 11 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 12 | I 'm not really doing that right because I mean I should n't agree I What you say is right whether I agree with it or not . |
| 13 | The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's not really had much cause . ’ |
| 15 | One was that people were not really making much progress toward showing that supergravity was finite or that it could explain the kinds of particles that we observe . |
| 16 | because at that meeting you can imagine that twenty people gathering then you end up not really making any decisions , far too many people , there was a lot discussed and aired and it concerns expressed and it was a case , and I 'm going from recollection here , it was really a case of let's go away and think about it and calm down and look at it rationally |
| 17 | So you can look at that , not just sort of little symbols er not really meaning much but we 're going to look at what happens to the current . |
| 18 | So d d d the the six thousand the six hundred does not really apply any more . |
| 19 | At the time the FSA was being implemented , the exchanges were not really offered any alternative . |
| 20 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 21 | It has often been said that he did not really have any very clear idea of what he wanted from his Council ; and as far as content goes , that may be true . |
| 22 | Their proposal for a further education funding council does not really have any commitment . |
| 23 | The accident caused considerable consternation and it became clear , talking to the members present at the launch point , that many pilots did not really understand all the factors which caused the accident . |
| 24 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 25 | With a quick smile , and not really having any choice , Ellie climbed back into her car , turned on the muddy track , and went back the way she 'd come . |
| 26 | It 's , it 's erm I think it 's quite interesting cos it 's a different style , in a sense it 's just setting out some goals that they want to achieve but not really giving any clear instruction of how you can achieve those goals . |
| 27 | ‘ It will just be my family and me there , and I have not really told that many people about it . ’ |
| 28 | Embargoes should be used only if they are really necessary and a good deal of the embargoed material which reaches an editor 's desk does not really need this form of restriction . |
| 29 | Locking up formes did not really require much physical effort either , nor , once you had been shown how to do it , very much skill . |
| 30 | They keep on calling me a celebrity , but I can not really accept that . |