Example sentences of "really [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |
| 2 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 3 | This presented a sizeable engineering problem : although INOC managed to find a solution , it was really little more than a stopgap and the long-term answer proved to be the negotiation of an arrangement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 5 | It 's about thirty people , really that of a very small central overhead , certainly when spread around a company with £1.8bn of sales . |
| 6 | Is the DNA in the nucleus really that passive , behaving like a jukebox from which any cytoplasm will select the correct themes ? |
| 7 | Here is something that seems very like intelligence , and we must ask whether it is really that , or merely another clever but mechanical programming finesse that we do not yet see . |
| 8 | Further investigation will show that the fear is not just the threat of punishment for the act or thought which instigated the feeling , for that fear can be there in those who are not worried by consciences ; it will emerge that the fear is really that of falling into disfavour with fellow beings and loved ones . |
| 9 | I mean , music 's a great channel for releasing your emotions but if you 're really that unhappy why do n't you just do something about your life ? |
| 10 | Within days of the election result and devastating discrediting of opinion polls , Peter Kellner was using opinion polls to explain why things were n't really that bad for the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Some say the failed policy was really that of John Major , as shown by his devotion to the Maastricht Treaty which would lead to Monetary union . |
| 12 | Everyone knew what she had done , but no one was really that conce with it . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not really that useful to me right now . |
| 14 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
| 15 | Dr ‘ Jackson ’ [ These problems ] are not non-medical ; they 're part of life and really that 's what we 're dealing with . |
| 16 | Lee Ernshaw freed René at the Cheesewring at E4 6a , and at Dodman Point climbed the slab right of Spitting Images to produce In God We Trust , E3 5b , while at Compass Point , The Second Coming ( it 's really that good Lee ? ) , |
| 17 | So I really was confident I was going to pass , and he said , ‘ I 'll give you a pound if you pass , ’ which is n't really that good a way of teaching . |
| 18 | They are not really that old , but taste like it . |
| 19 | It was n't really that . |
| 20 | In more severe situations there 's uncontrolled continent acto activation and uncontrolled clotting factor , activation and it 's really that last feature that 's particularly responsible for the er er ghastly skin disease you saw i in the last sla , in the previous slide ! |
| 21 | But the doctors have to consider whether the decision is really that of the patient . |
| 22 | Well , I did it alone , just with the help of Crossroads , and the district nurse in , in the mornings , five days a week and really that is all the help I had , except that I get domestic staff myself , and any help that I need , I have to pay for . |
| 23 | Yeah so I mean if you were doing bar work but really that was n't the main job yes yeah yeah yeah . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ said the reporter , ‘ We 're not really that kind of paper . ’ |
| 25 | It was n't really that different from the approved school . |
| 26 | So really that 's |
| 27 | Er not really , no , not really that er er political activity was left er to my mother . |
| 28 | You , you can defer a state pension , but it 's not really that , that viable . |
| 29 | And really that should be er a secure portfolio that you do n't need to worry about too much . |
| 30 | It 's just gathering the the evidence is n't it really that 's difficult |