Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [adv] really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideas expressed may well be wide of the mark , or they may not be , but this does not really matter since the purpose of hypotheses is to stimulate more ideas , and the research to either confirm or refute them . |
| 2 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 3 | This does not really explain how the regulation will be conducted , as this is more a feature of the regulators than of the politicians , if there is any slack in the relationship between government and regulatory agents . |
| 4 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 5 | It is so weak as not really to provide a genuine sense of ‘ conclusive ’ , but this does n't really matter . |
| 6 | This does n't really mean all Muslims ; that 's clear from the languages they use . |
| 7 | War boars are evil minded creatures that will take every opportunity to maim , bite , and kick their Orc masters but this does n't really bother the Orcs who are on the whole sensible enough to keep out of the way . |
| 8 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 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 | Being involved in a job which necessitates a good deal of physical activity ( housework , unfortunately , does not rate high in this way , in these days of mod. cons. ) , or taking part in a good deal of sport or walking ( that ten-minute daily dozen does n't really rate here , either ) . |
| 11 | The fact that I am hopeless , useless , and ca n't play any more does n't really matter , as I am an amateur player . |
| 12 | A panegyric does not really go far to explain why his semi-retirement will be widely deplored . |
| 13 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 14 | Like the , I mean that does n't really bear any resemblance to that but it 's obviously the way . |
| 15 | No , well that does n't really matter . |
| 16 | Because , by night he comes to Jesus the whys and the wherefores of that does n't really matter . |
| 17 | And that does n't really matter in the theatre because you carry on |
| 18 | ‘ That does n't really deserve an answer , ’ she said angrily . |
| 19 | But if you think yeah that does n't really achieve achieving nothing convincing feel that call . |
| 20 | ‘ But that does n't really make sense . |
| 21 | ‘ That does n't really make sense . |
| 22 | That does n't really make any difference . |
| 23 | But that does n't really explain why hundreds of people would want to dress up , and re-run the battle one hundred and thirty years later . |
| 24 | That does n't really describe Denim but I think it does have a quality , something inhuman and plastic and mechanical . |
| 25 | Erm that might have been as well another reason for selling to friends , erm because most of the stuff we bought anyway was new so that does n't really come into it . |
| 26 | The editor of New Scientist spent an evening in the company of brother David not long ago , but that does n't really qualify . |
| 27 | That does n't really grasp the point , but it sets Bernard off on another low-fi tirade against ‘ jump up and down bands ’ becoming part of the mainstream and generally bringing the whole world down : ‘ I could imagine Revolver being on Top Of The Pops , but I could n't imagine David Bowie being on , ’ he seethes , delicately . |
| 28 | There 's a problem here that does n't really need explaining . |
| 29 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 30 | Now that does n't really work here because we have a policy that we do n't have notices , you may have noticed already , we do n't have notices saying do n't and we do n't object to people sitting on the furniture , handling this and that , doing what they like . |