Example sentences of "not really [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not really expect otherwise . |
| 2 | Even Hegel , who apparently extends the notion of autonomy to the private domain does not really do so . |
| 3 | I 'm pessimistic because I believe that if the council is to tackle what I still believe to be a big problem of the local authority then it can not really do so without the support of the largest party on this authority and if we have heard erm an honest assessment of their perception of of the case , I I really I really do despair that this council will will get to the bottom of the problem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rousseau misses the point that direct experience is often inadequate as direct experience : an actual motor-car engine , even one that can be taken apart , does not really explain how internal combustion powers a car . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their commitment , however , does not really extend as far as promotion of Equal Opportunities ; men-only nights greatly outnumber women-only nights in most venues ; most lack disabled access ; there is no policy of supporting anti-racist initiatives in either employment practices or customer relations . |
| 8 | The decline in numbers did not really set in until after the Second World War , when elephants were , incidentally , used to carry ammunition during the Burma campaign . |
| 9 | Richard did not really forget though . |
| 10 | For our purposes , it does not really matter exactly what the results of the study were . |
| 11 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 12 | It does not really matter how you describe the style — Wimbledon , long ball , direct . |
| 13 | It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure . |
| 14 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 15 | Peace did not really reign again at Hatfield Chase until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | As long as the problem departs , they do not really care why it first arose . |
| 17 | In this case it will be as well not to use the bass drum and cymbals simultaneously ( they do not really go particularly well together ) , so that the cymbals can be played in the proper way , one held in each hand . |
| 18 | What is clear , though , is that we can not really go back to ‘ 1970s feminism ’ , and that inasmuch as we do work with the social and political categories which are the valuable heritage of that period we now do so with a proper awareness of their construction and provisionality . |
| 19 | There was an interesting experience at Leon which the women did not really take up afterwards . |
| 20 | Life insurance developed alongside , but did not really take on its modern form until the last decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | But sales will not really take off until they become a standard quality-control feature on production lines . |
| 22 | Financial delegation started in Australia in the early 1970s , but did not really take off until 1983 when the Labour Party , committed to devolution , was elected . |
| 23 | The shares immediately jumped 40p , but did not really take off until American buying late in the session pushed them up 71p to end the day at 1,153p . |
| 24 | I can not really remember why . |
| 25 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 26 | I did not really know why not . |
| 27 | We do not really know why a greater number of people began to survive into adulthood during this period . |
| 28 | When the over ended he took the umpire aside and explained ‘ I have two artificial hips and I do not really know where my feet are going to land ’ — he was given a special Man of the Match award . |
| 29 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 30 | Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels . |