Example sentences of "really saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is what the traditional doctrines of divine omnipotence , preservation and providence are really saying . |
| 2 | You are really saying , ‘ We must find a way to do the impossible . ’ |
| 3 | What the mother was really saying was , ‘ I accept that D 's immediate future lies with her foster parents . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that what the majority are really saying at your plant ? ’ asked Bunker . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you really saying that the company is to blame for the strike ? ’ the man with the microphone asked , thrusting it under Clasper 's chin . |
| 6 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 7 | I switched off the tape , realizing that I would have to listen another time to find out what the preacher was really saying . |
| 8 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 9 | And that is probably what the people of Slough were really saying . |
| 10 | Screwy sort of argument — I mean , what she was really saying was half right on the nail , and half like a whirlpool that sucks everything into it . ’ |
| 11 | And are you really saying it 's sabotage ? |
| 12 | When you say , ‘ I know this is true ’ , you are really saying , ‘ This is what I am convinced is the truth of the matter . ’ |
| 13 | I suppose what I 'm really saying is that we should stop for a second each time we leap to elevate some young lad or lass to godlike status for a fifteen second guitar solo , and think about Paul McCartney penning Yesterday at age 23 . |
| 14 | Was he really saying that blessedness , permanence and true being had to be sought elsewhere ? |
| 15 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 16 | What the miracle is really saying is that the blind man recognises Jesus as the Messiah . |
| 17 | Even UNESCO reneged on the normative aspect of NWICO , advocating instead an ‘ ongoing process ’ without really saying where it should lead . |
| 18 | What ‘ Back In Denim ’ is really saying as it launches spiteful attacks on Duran Duran and mourns David Cassidy 's retirement , is that Pop Music Is Important , as much a part of our lives , our personalities as the polluted air we breathe and the clothes we choose to wear . |
| 19 | What the critics , of the trade unions and managements alike , are really saying is this : that they do not like normality with all its faults . |
| 20 | What he 's really saying is that he does n't know the answer to the question ! |
| 21 | She nodded , understanding at once what he was really saying to her . |
| 22 | What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices . |
| 23 | I think what what you 're really saying though , is that it 's probably a mistake to actually look at it in terms of a number of days . |
| 24 | Well the spirit reveals it to you , that 's what it 's really saying is n't it ? |
| 25 | That 's what it 's really saying is n't it ? |
| 26 | But if I have been able to persuade you that Bishop Wilberforce and Professor Chomsky are really saying the same thing , then those of you who are of rationalist or empiricist persuasion have at least got a measure of the difficulties that you face . |
| 27 | ‘ If you say nice things about our house , you 're really saying them about us too . |
| 28 | In saying that the free market equilibrium would be at E , we are really saying that it would not be worth while for each individual to check up privately on each and every drug on the market . |
| 29 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 30 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |