Example sentences of "not really [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was a a knife throwing act , not really a knife throwing act human acts .
2 The Coalition was not really a confluence of parties .
3 But it is not really a wilderness , as many of the ‘ friend of the court ’ briefs filed by scientific bodies suggest .
4 We are delighted to have found this beautiful establishment which is not really a hotel , in the conventional sense , rather a whole village turned into a hotel — with the exception of one or two buildings which house the wine production .
5 ‘ And he 's not really a journo , more a jumped-up PR man .
6 No not really a cheese man .
7 He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved .
8 He 's not really a cabin man .
9 It 's sort of that and it 's not really a skills course .
10 Yet they concede it would also be more complex and bureaucratic , and not really a runner until general taxation is more widely perceived as unable to deliver adequate funding .
11 ‘ He 's not really a gentleman , not like Father Kendrick .
12 One of the main reasons is that our system of democratic parliamentary self-government is incompatible with the Brussels machine , which has an unelected Commission with the sole power of initiative and right of veto , a Council of Ministers which legislates in secret , the so-called Parliament , which is not really a Parliament , has no roots in this country and will never be the focus of the hopes , aspirations and loyalties of our people , and a Community court , which in many ways is a political court and engine of federalism , standing above Parliament .
13 Except that it was not really a decision , more an unthought-out reaction .
14 If it 's too close together it 's like it 's not really a concession .
15 When is a ghost movie not really a ghost move ?
16 He is not really a man related to other men in natural affinity or community : he is atomised man , human society pared down to a single individual .
17 The third idea unacceptable to Christians is that Jesus was not really a man at at all but God play-acting at being a man .
18 These nematocysts , however , are not really a part of the sea slug .
19 The fig that you eat is not really a fruit .
20 It has been suggested that there is not really a contrast between and , since only occurs in weak syllables and no minimal pairs can be found to show a clear contrast between and in unstressed syllables ( though there have been some ingenious attempts ) .
21 But as this runs every ten minutes it 's not really a problem .
22 It is important to think ahead and allow longer to make a garment — not really a problem , but a little difficult to accept after years of knitting a garment very quickly .
23 This is not really a problem because PCX is one of the standard graphics file saving formats offered by most of the popular computer paint programs .
24 Besides , Botha does not defend , which is not really a problem because he stayed miles from his scrum-half , Du Preez , and made him look terrible with a slippery ball .
25 Not really a Problem , she assured herself .
26 Interpretation is not really a problem for Richards , but simply a matter of approaching the text with the right kind of attention .
27 The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down .
28 It 's an advantage but with cars it 's not really a problem so
29 Arguably it 's not it 's not really a problem is it ?
30 Yeah , but they 're they 're not really a problem are they ?
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