Example sentences of "[adj] be really [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 2 | Exactly how the Pill produces this effect is unknown — the simplistic explanation usually offered is that the hormones in the Pill promote Candida because they are steroids , but this is really no explanation at all . |
| 3 | This is really a question about embryology , not genetics ; and it is an entirely separate question from the one that worried the Bishop of Birmingham and others . |
| 4 | This is really a differentiation within the category of sexual instincts as first conceived , the ego instincts of the first conceptualization being taken into a differentiation within the sexual instincts instead of being opposed to them . |
| 5 | Coun Cresswell said : ‘ Labour are trying to appear generous by providing a wooden pavilion , whereas this is really a kick in the teeth for bowlers . ’ |
| 6 | these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there . |
| 7 | Now this is really a road mark in my opinion |
| 8 | This is really a babysitting circle on a small scale , with only two families involved , and it can work well . |
| 9 | just a point however , about ‘ soil-less composts ’ — this is really a misnomer . |
| 10 | However , this is really a misnomer since the laws of chemical combination require that all chemical reactions are stoichiometric , that is , that combinations must involve exact whole numbers of particles ( atoms , ions or molecules ) in fixed , characteristic ratios . |
| 11 | This is really a matter of personal preference and the sort of facilities available in your building ( or area because , of course , nearby gas can be piped in at some cost , or use gas from cylinders if you really prefer gas ) . |
| 12 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 13 | Capitanchik : This is really the trend for the future . |
| 14 | However , in the absence of a formal derivation , it has been possible to question whether this is really the case . |
| 15 | But it strikes me that this is really the view of people who do n't have them . |
| 16 | As far as evolution is concerned , I , and this is really the essence of our modern view , I am really nothing more than the packaging of my genes , because after all this is what evolution acts on . |
| 17 | Erm and this is really the mechanism by which you can ensure the continuous or continual improvement of the quality system . |
| 18 | This is really the key to getting the economy stabilised but the Chancellor did n't have the courage of his convictions to do it . |
| 19 | ‘ This is really the end . ’ |
| 20 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 21 | I think also on the inherent fault situation , I mean when somebody buys a vehicle the vehicle has to be of a standard obviously and if there are problems there then obviously people appreciate the fact that they can go back and this is really the point of dealing with a reputable dealer from the word go . |
| 22 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 23 | This is really an alternative to the aïoli , in case you have anti-garlic guests . |
| 24 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 25 | But this was really the freedom of a lord of misrule , and generally any serious damage was undone back in the Commons . |
| 26 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 27 | It does not matter whether this was really the case or not , the apparent connection between the two shots will be accepted unless there are compelling reasons which suggest the contrary — an abrupt and illogical change of location for instance . |
| 28 | Although the Messerschmitt 262s and Gloster Meteors were used only in limited numbers , this was really the start of a brand new generation of aerial fighting machines . |
| 29 | Only if the issue , whether the accused is really the thief or the handler is live , need the phrase be proved by the prosecution : see Cash [ 1985 ] QB 801 ( CA ) , approving Griffiths ( 1974 ) 60 Cr App R 14 ( CA ) , and A-G of Hong Kong v Yip Kai-foon [ 1988 ] AC 642 ( PC ) . |
| 30 | Nice little cottage that , but Pook 's Common is really the back of beyond . |