Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus class divisions were not really disrupted by this movement . |
| 2 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 3 | They might indeed come to believe that they were not really living in Africa at all . |
| 4 | But although their vocals were not really intended as more than light relief , many of these players had the knack of making a song more memorable and enjoyable than many a proper singer can — as Eldridge does on Shoe Shin Swing , Gillespie on I 'm Beboppin' Too , Hot Lips Page on Take Your Shoes Off Baby . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In a certain way , of course , the dinosaurs were not really exterminated : we see their descendants all around us , in the form of modern reptiles and birds . |
| 7 | The first hint that things were not really changing for the better came in 1945 when , according to Damiani , two Palestinian Jews paid a visit to his father . |
| 8 | Persons who were merely unable to perform particular types of job and who were not really handicapped by their disability might be protected . |
| 9 | Girls were sometimes called apprentices , more often simply " learners " : indicating that they were not really acquiring a skill , just " learning on the job " , which was the standard training for most semi-skilled occupations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some of the clans , such as the Campbells of Argyll , were staunchly Whig , others were divided amongst themselves , and many were not really committed strongly one way or the other . |
| 12 | At the time the FSA was being implemented , the exchanges were not really offered any alternative . |
| 13 | Er the wages were n't really moving at all in these shor er times . |
| 14 | He glanced across the table and added quickly : ‘ Do n't get me wrong , I know you were n't really thinking of that . ’ |
| 15 | Originally you were n't really looking at it , five of you all fell into the same trap , you know , they , they get half way through , and they did have something to do and they did sort of start rushing . |
| 16 | You know , there was a lot of people had them and gave them out to neighbours or not total strangers , but people that were n't really related to them . |
| 17 | ‘ But you were n't really involved , were you ? ’ |
| 18 | job and y you were n't really knowing whether it included or excluded the A Cs anyway and that sort of thing . |
| 19 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
| 20 | Yeah but you you were n't , you were n't really put on |
| 21 | ‘ My fashion shots were n't really fashion , ’ Bailey maintains . |
| 22 | Of course , Dorcas thought , as a scientist and rational thinking nome I know we were n't really intended to live under floorboards the whole time . |
| 23 | Her emotions were n't really engaged . |
| 24 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 25 | Clint has discovered the porn channel on the hotel TV ‘ but they were n't really doing it 'cause her arse muscles were n't clenched . ’ |
| 26 | So , so you were n't really doing anything on their sort of personal development or their social problems or , you know , could they get jobs or could they get work or what were the pressures on them , how |
| 27 | so I 'll be getting that phone bill within the next fortnight , right , but bear in mind June June and December we were n't really doing anything for three weeks |
| 28 | so that , that will be quite good , erm and lastly we went to meet with Sandra from Youth Out , fund employed theatrical fund , which was a meeting we were n't really allowed to have , and this is certainly not for the record |
| 29 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 30 | They were n't really meant as an insult . |