Example sentences of "[not/n't] really [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but you 've got to just leave the the thing , come on I think they want to close , and I want to get to Marks , so do you not really want the collage kit at the moment , you 've got collage kit 's have n't you ? |
| 2 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 3 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 4 | Recent reprints of Royal Institution discourses , organized under disciplines , do not really give the flavour of the programme as a whole . |
| 5 | If Susanna Jennens had encouraged her to read and write at Weston Hall , Leapor could not really expect the same sort of understanding and support from another employer . |
| 6 | The NZRFU can not really expect the Home Unions to agree to short tours when they place matches on the last two Saturdays of a tour , and put the tourists against top-strength sides at major venues on the two preceding Saturdays . |
| 7 | Derkinderen and Crum do well to remind us of this , but it does not really invalidate the portfolio-grid approach . |
| 8 | Liberation theology is such a circle , but the theology does not really reflect the aboriginal spirituality , ’ he said . |
| 9 | We know for sure in Kuwait , being so close to the Palestinians , that the Palestinian leadership does not really represent the Palestinian people , and there is , within the leadership , erm qualms — they do n't all agree . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | More drastic cures , such as providing woollen garments covered in some noxious chemical substance , do not really cure the cat 's fixation . |
| 13 | The incitement provisions in the Act do not really extend the law greatly , since it is in any event a common law offence to incite another to commit an offence , even a summary offence . |
| 14 | I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning . |
| 15 | The NIRA generated new enthusiasm and confidence , but it did not really bring the hoped-for economic recovery . |
| 16 | Again , this is a philosophy that does not really fit the African scene . |
| 17 | Trespass did not really fit the case because the harm was consequential , not direct . |
| 18 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 19 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In short , the criticism is that we do not really know the redistributive impact of government . |
| 24 | We may not really know the frequency with which Rousseau heard it , but well before the Revolution it was heard only in extremis . |
| 25 | Harvey , nearly thirty years younger than Morris , did not really get the point , but with that courtesy for which the rising junior minister is rightly celebrated laughed generously in response . |
| 26 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 27 | Again she was a busy young mother who did not really find the time to mourn for the loss of her unborn children . |
| 28 | He did not really understand the conversation , but he knew that the Woman was being attacked . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This led to a deep conflict within himself which carried with it the handicap that he did not really understand the ordinary world , was remote from everyday life , and so lacked balance . |