Example sentences of "is n't really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it is n't really tailored to meet the needs er of the sort of developments we 're talking about . |
| 2 | In fact , maternity is n't really recognised to exist in many practices . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | It is n't really stealing , she reassured herself : I live here so I can eat the food . |
| 5 | Most people feel that the church ‘ knows about death ’ , and that someone is n't really treated with proper respect and dignity at the time of their funeral unless the church is present . |
| 6 | " Mr Grout , " Starke sighed , laying the pen down again , " I 'm afraid this interview is n't really getting us very far . |
| 7 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
| 8 | I HOPE HE IS N'T REALLY GOING |
| 9 | Of course that is n't really allowed , but once you 've got back as a ghost , there 's not much anybody can do to stop you . |
| 10 | ‘ This is n't really ushering in anything new . |
| 11 | They 're supposed to bring a strange kind of ecstatic death by drowning — although it is n't really described as a death at all , more a passage from one world to another . |
| 12 | Roly Gillard of the Monster Raving Loony Party Party Party is n't really making light of the election . |
| 13 | But only housework does n't have a wage , only housework is n't really thought of as work , only housework is despised , and only women do housework . |
| 14 | The difference is that football is n't really encouraged at schools cos |