Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison the seemingly safe approach is anaemic and superficial — it does not really engage pupils . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Derkinderen and Crum do well to remind us of this , but it does not really invalidate the portfolio-grid approach . |
| 5 | It does not really matter what the answer is . |
| 6 | It does not really matter how you describe the style — Wimbledon , long ball , direct . |
| 7 | From some points of view it does not really matter whether these fragments originated as invading parasites or breakaway rebels . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the danger is that if relief is too often refused on such grounds it may give decision-makers the signal that it does not really matter whether they act within the law or not , so long as the decision is ‘ right ’ . |
| 13 | For our purposes , it does not really matter exactly what the results of the study were . |
| 14 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 15 | It does not really matter . |
| 16 | It does not really matter for our purposes what the variable is . |
| 17 | While neutral language may be less overtly offensive than the kind it replaces , there is reason to suppose that it is often ineffective , in the sense that it does not really bring women into people 's mental landscape at all . |
| 18 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |
| 19 | This means that although realizations of these overlap and are sometimes identical , it does not really make sense to say that this is a merger in the language system in BV ( of course , it may be in other dialects ) . |
| 20 | This distinction may be justified from a limited epistemological standpoint , it might be said , but it does not really make sense in physical terms . |
| 21 | Obviously this is an overstatement , but it does not really exaggerate too much the state of mind many Of us have reached in stratigraphical discussions . |
| 22 | Here the two sentences are linked because they follow the grammatical pattern , definite article + proper noun + copula + complement , a link whose purely formal nature is revealed by the fact that it does not really survive translation into English , where the definite articles are not needed and an indefinite one is . |
| 23 | In societies in which adolescence as we know it does not really occur , they make the transition from childhood to adulthood in one traumatic experience just as their ancestors , generations before , made the change from the innocence of nature to the guilt and responsibility of culture by perpetuating the primal crimes of incest and parricide . |
| 24 | Thus , it does not really provide a viable method for generating analytic solutions for any given analytic description of the approaching waves . |
| 25 | The first is that you are part of local government and sadly local government as a service has an image , a profile , even a stance which it it it does n't really deserve . |
| 26 | The Empress once remarked to Emile Ollivier that she was well aware of her reputation ‘ as someone who read only novels ’ , but added : ‘ It does n't really bother me . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway , it does n't really bother me . |
| 28 | It does n't really bother me that much . |
| 29 | I do n't really like asking people that , you have to ask them and I do n't know , I 'd tell people it does n't really bother me , |
| 30 | yes , that 's right , yes or six , six , two , I do n't really care , as long as I get fourteen it does n't really bother me |