Example sentences of "[pron] does not really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 2 | The Self , in assuming an identity , ‘ steals ’ that which does not really belong to it , so ‘ mushikarati ’ symbolises the realised man — ‘ he who enjoys the Self ’ . |
| 3 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Topping the list is Barbara Piasecka-Johnson , who does not really count : she inherited her $550m fortune from her husband , chairman of America 's Johnson and Johnson company , whom she met while working as a maid in his house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do . |
| 7 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 8 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 9 | One does not really think of saving dolphins as connected with social change , but essentially Greenpeace 's claim is not exaggerated . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
| 14 | To his right and left spreads a familiar landscape , so familiar that he does not really see it , an expanse of houses and factories , warehouses and sheds , railway lines and canals , piles of scrap metal and heaps of damaged cars , container ports and lorry parks , cooling towers and gasometers . |
| 15 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 16 | In many instances the church has projected the attitude that although God invented sex he does not really approve of it . |
| 17 | Kepler Wessels , his captain at Eastern Province , says he can be as quick as Allan Donald , though he does not really swing the ball . |
| 18 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 19 | Although the principle of taqiyah — dissimulation — does make it perfectly possible for a Muslim to pretend to assume a religion to which he does not really belong . |
| 20 | By comparison the seemingly safe approach is anaemic and superficial — it does not really engage pupils . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Derkinderen and Crum do well to remind us of this , but it does not really invalidate the portfolio-grid approach . |
| 24 | It does not really matter what the answer is . |
| 25 | It does not really matter how you describe the style — Wimbledon , long ball , direct . |
| 26 | From some points of view it does not really matter whether these fragments originated as invading parasites or breakaway rebels . |
| 27 | It does not really matter if a ten-inch record turns into a nine-and-a-half inch , but it does matter when the shrinkage is uneven , because the grooves become highly eccentric . |
| 28 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 29 | It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure . |
| 30 | To return to crack propagation in brittle solids , it does not really matter for our present purposes whether fracture is initiated by a dynamic blow or by a static load . |