Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our black-and-white picture does not really do justice to its chameleon-like metallic paintwork , which seems to appear as green , silver or blue according to the light . |
| 2 | Even Hegel , who apparently extends the notion of autonomy to the private domain does not really do so . |
| 3 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 4 | Interactionism raises the issue of the relation between power and crime , but does not really answer it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By comparison the seemingly safe approach is anaemic and superficial — it does not really engage pupils . |
| 7 | A panegyric does not really go far to explain why his semi-retirement will be widely deplored . |
| 8 | Perhaps more fundamental than this was the criticism he received from a Methodist minister that the book does not really mention , let alone do justice to , the central Christian doctrine of Justification by Faith . |
| 9 | Example 2 does not really make sense ( although it is possible to think of situations where this might occur ) , but example 4 does . |
| 10 | This means that although realizations of these overlap and are sometimes identical , it does not really make sense to say that this is a merger in the language system in BV ( of course , it may be in other dialects ) . |
| 11 | The kind of unqualified quantification illustrated by such examples , he might argue , does not really make clear sense . |
| 12 | This distinction may be justified from a limited epistemological standpoint , it might be said , but it does not really make sense in physical terms . |
| 13 | The picture does not really change if we turn from the Bible to those seals and bronzes from the Persian period with which the Archaeological Museums of Jerusalem have made us familiar . |
| 14 | The mind does not really forget . |
| 15 | One does not really think of saving dolphins as connected with social change , but essentially Greenpeace 's claim is not exaggerated . |
| 16 | Secondly , there can be considerable psychological discomfort in having to pretend to beliefs that one does not really hold , or perform actions that one would not normally want to do . |
| 17 | If this view is correct , issue ( ii ) does not really arise . |
| 18 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , her categorisation is unprincipled in the sense that it does not really relate types of metaphor to each other , and is thus no more than a typology of poetic examples . |
| 21 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |
| 22 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 23 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 24 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 25 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 26 | Liberation theology is such a circle , but the theology does not really reflect the aboriginal spirituality , ’ he said . |
| 27 | That is , that the ‘ god ’ representing the fundamental origin of the religion does not really exist , and never has existed , ; at least not in the form required to be believed in . |
| 28 | I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist . |
| 29 | Possibly , but the A version does not really confirm or deny this , or provide any clear resolution to the play . |
| 30 | While neutral language may be less overtly offensive than the kind it replaces , there is reason to suppose that it is often ineffective , in the sense that it does not really bring women into people 's mental landscape at all . |