Example sentences of "it was really [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was really no surprise that Brian was taken out of the room that afternoon . |
| 2 | It was really no concern of hers whether it was business or personal . |
| 3 | The barrio was a place where I felt freer than anywhere else in Salamanca , for it was really a land outside the law , where outcasts at last could feel at home . |
| 4 | It was really a sound investment , a first class mortgage , with very good security . |
| 5 | The ‘ Davni Chasy ’ issue was important because it helped both the band and RCA learn a great deal about each other , although it is probably closer to the truth to say it was really a case of RCA simply learning more about the staunch and pedantic attitude of The Wedding Present . |
| 6 | The excuse for the 1928 ‘ infirmary pie ’ was to raise £1,000 to endow in perpetuity a bed at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary , but to many people it was really a somewhat belated celebration of the end of the 1914–18 war . |
| 7 | The next printing , of 1866 , was from new type and was therefore the second edition , often , if not accurately , called the first published edition , on the grounds that , since so few of the 1865 copies were published and a number were recalled by Carroll , it was really a private printing and does n't count . |
| 8 | It 's only later on , when you look back at something you 've done , that you see it was really a milestone and you could have gone off in some quite different direction . |
| 9 | It was really a trip of a lifetime . |
| 10 | It was really a battle of wills . |
| 11 | It was really a bad time . ’ |
| 12 | It was really a front for Uncle Titch and Grandad 's Great Fairground Enterprise . |
| 13 | It was really a scent , the aroma of spice , which first drew the West 's attention to the Eastern islands . |
| 14 | Well although it was so near , it was really a mining district and ninety percent of the boys We were at separate schools by the way , the ground floors were boys , from the age of seven upwards , till fourteen . |
| 15 | Though it was really a bar , Le Rosebud , down a side street in Montparnasse ) . |
| 16 | It was really a bad idea , but Jane liked it . |
| 17 | It was really it was really a lovely too was n't it . |
| 18 | What year did your fathers er cy wh it was really a bicycle shop that he had but i |
| 19 | And erm dances and everything you know , it was really a , a luxury the crossing . |
| 20 | It was really a pleasant surprise to have your letter . |
| 21 | Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now . |
| 22 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 23 | because at that meeting you can imagine that twenty people gathering then you end up not really making any decisions , far too many people , there was a lot discussed and aired and it concerns expressed and it was a case , and I 'm going from recollection here , it was really a case of let's go away and think about it and calm down and look at it rationally |
| 24 | It was really a most heartwarming occasion . |
| 25 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 26 | erm we did n't have a holiday for that but we used , when it was Willenhall er our mums knew that we should be like going home and we used to go straight from work to the Wakes you see , which was a , it was really a good wake then but then you 'd got to walk home . |
| 27 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |
| 28 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 29 | and it was really a happy life , I enjoyed that and then when they , we found them all jobs . |
| 30 | Er they er in the days of sailing ships of course they were they were really they were it was really a dangerous place . |