Example sentences of "not really [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 2 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 3 | In truth the Sergeant was not really listening to the Lieutenant 's enthusiastic explanation ; instead he was partly anticipating the Belgian girls and partly worrying when this headlong advance would run into the enemy picquets . |
| 4 | Government in North America is not really run by the President or the Senate but by the Washington bureaucracy . |
| 5 | Publishers frequently cite this as a reason for not really getting behind the sale , and putting better titles into it . |
| 6 | There 's an important ambiguity in the title of this book , not really acknowledged by the editors ( though they discuss other meanings of the phrase ) . |
| 7 | Again we do not really compare to the six above + Blackburn , although the strikers are on almost on a par with most compared to the defence . |
| 8 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 9 | As economic theory had not really moved beyond the ‘ invisible hand ’ idea of Adam Smith , not surprisingly no one really knew what was wrong with the machine . |
| 10 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 11 | But since the lowest stated band on the DSP 715 's graphic is 60Hz , I 'm not really convinced by the sub-bass implications accompanying this unit . |
| 12 | Although the unanimity of rural enthusiasm for army policies is open to question , it is clear that the rural community did not really turn to the left in its search for a solution to its problems . |
| 13 | The first two years of study there will normally involve between three and six subjects rather than the one , two or three typical of the English university , and specialization does not really begin until the third year of the honours course . |
| 14 | Shaft performance data derived from a testing machine do not really apply to the ‘ real ’ golf swing . |
| 15 | He had not really taken in the whole story yet . |
| 16 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 17 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 18 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |
| 19 | So we are not really talking about the survival of the earth , we are talking about the survival of the sort of earth we want . |
| 20 | Not really talking about the issues , just |
| 21 | The provision of a single accumulator does not really correspond to the way in which most programs are written , since at any given point there are usually several intermediate values all of which are in the process of being manipulated . |
| 22 | Qaddafi 's statement , however , does not really dispose of the contrast between the rational state , recruiting members who choose to belong , and the natural organizations of kinship . |
| 23 | Sometimes it is argued that even if researchers do not really believe in the religion that they are studying , they will get more information if they pretend to do so — if , in other words , they use covert , rather than overt , methods of investigation . |
| 24 | The weakness , then and subsequently , was that Baldwin and the others did not really believe in the report . |
| 25 | So you 're not really concentrating on the television , because you do n't have to . |
| 26 | The first hint that things were not really changing for the better came in 1945 when , according to Damiani , two Palestinian Jews paid a visit to his father . |
| 27 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 28 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 29 | The elaborately multi-layered Neverland set of Spielberg 's Hook , with its lagoon and its jungle and its tree-house and its pirates ' galleon , does not really work on the screen : it 's much too claustrophobic , too tentacular , too ‘ busy ’ . |
| 30 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |