Example sentences of "is [not/n't] really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government in North America is not really run by the President or the Senate but by the Washington bureaucracy . |
| 2 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 3 | There is thus a tendency for some engineers to say that drafting ( and therefore tertiary design ) is not really design ; that the mundane activities necessary to produce an artefact really belong solely to production engineering . |
| 4 | The proper use of a new product is not really understood . |
| 5 | Unless , however , such a possibility is considered , the onlooker is not really appreciating what the ritual means to the religious person . |
| 6 | The view that hooligans actually learn how to behave from the papers and reflect back to the public the image that has been created for them is not really borne out in personal interviews . |
| 7 | ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ This guy is not really listening . ’ |
| 9 | It is noticeable that cockfighting is an exclusively male preoccupation , though this is not really analysed . |
| 10 | Anyone can work out who the ‘ subspecies ’ Marxomanni , Mussolimini and Swastici are meant to represent , but they do not really play an important part in the story , since we can feel that John , the Pilgrim , is not really tempted or overwhelmed by them , any more than Lewis ever felt the slightest inclination to become a Maminst or a Fascist . |
| 11 | An ‘ age-regressed ’ subject is not really reliving actual events ; by checking school records and the like , researchers have found that remembered fact is well-laced with fantasy . |
| 12 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 13 | In that case an aggressive demand defeats its own purpose for the use of aggression to ensure compliance suggests that compliance is not really expected . |
| 14 | In fact even Patrick 's labour is not really needed but he stays mainly to learn how to manage the farm later . |
| 15 | This is not really improved if worn backwards or upside down but try it inside out ! |
| 16 | This is not really suited for binocular observation , but it is one of the few Mira variables easily found with binoculars when near maximum . |
| 17 | On the debit side it must be said that Ventura is not really suited for use on documents where the styles and formats change from page to page ; newsletters and magazines , for example . |
| 18 | Now , paragraph four of our amendment here is not really designed to knock the Labour Party . |
| 19 | It is not really clear what is the role of the National Bank of Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | and on Joe 's visit to London he realises that he is not really appreciated and leaves as he has too much dignity . |
| 21 | Rose of Lima herself did not write her memoirs , or anything else , so her subjective understanding of this painful phenomenon is not really known ; what is known is that she offered her life explicitly for the conversion and salvation of those suffering people — one of the reasons , obviously , why she later seemed an appropriate patron for the New World . |
| 22 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 23 | Let us assume that you have reached the point in your synspilums ' development where you are setting up their permanent breeding quarters , probably using a 60″ × 18″ × 18″ tank or larger ; you might just about scrape by with a 48″ , but this is not really recommended . |
| 24 | The partnership is not really working , although of course erm what happened on Saturday was that after an awful pasting during the week verbally from Mick their manager , and indeed having both been brought off very controversially at Molyneux last Tuesday evening , both substituted in the closing stages when Notts were losing and both strikers we er were brought off , you could n't get much more controversial tha that by a manager could you ? |
| 25 | The long opening sequence , detailing a mismanaged operation of a baby 's delivery , is an extraordinary feat of simulation , yet it also tends to defeat realism because we know what we are seeing is not really happening . |
| 26 | One female GP — our surgery has just the one — is not really going to make much of an impression among that lot . |
| 27 | Erm it is n't really tailored to meet the needs er of the sort of developments we 're talking about . |
| 28 | In fact , maternity is n't really recognised to exist in many practices . |
| 29 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 30 | It is n't really stealing , she reassured herself : I live here so I can eat the food . |