Example sentences of "actually [verb] to the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 2 | The break in the line of Akeman Street was not ‘ caused ’ by the growth of Saxon Bicester which actually lies to the north of the road . |
| 3 | Whether or not these actually related to the disposition of his kingdom , the implication is that Edward was in a position to make his wishes known . |
| 4 | Whether or not these actually related to the disposition of his kingdom , the implication is that Edward was in a position to make his wishes known . |
| 5 | In a strange way it can actually contribute to the success of many marriages , for not every woman wants to spend her life with an eternal Romeo . |
| 6 | Well I I 'm I think that er I 'm less worried about dating it cos I think it actually quite important to date it , like the war memorial ground and actually fairly closely although it 's not actually dated to the end of the war , I mean it was nineteen fifty two when it was established . |
| 7 | The Act of 1988 was designed precisely to ensure that the fish quotas allocated to the United Kingdom actually enured to the benefit of persons for whom they were intended . |
| 8 | Moreover , the creation of political boundaries in the Sahelian countries during colonial and post-colonial times has actually contributed to the disruption of a carefully regulated system of pastoral movements and pastoral-agricultural symbiosis , leading to environmental deterioration and desertification ( Franke & Chasin 1980 : Ch.3 & p.98 ) . |
| 9 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 10 | ‘ And , ’ he pursued pleasantly , ‘ I certainly had n't guessed that you had actually gone to the trouble of speculating on my reactions — to illness or to anything else , ’ he added quietly . |
| 11 | However , adulthood begins at 18 rather than 21 , and once again we have an example of a desire to shield those aged under 21 which may actually lead to the penalization of some brothers and sisters of that age . |
| 12 | Only one person suggested that the closure of the school might actually lead to the destruction of the community in a material sense . |
| 13 | Consent theorists , correctly perceiving that consent to the authority of a reasonably just government does endow it with authority over the agent , and faced with the fact that few people actually consent to the authority of their government , have often tried to extend the notion of consent to cover more cases . |
| 14 | I 'd like to highlight the er a quote by the county museum 's officer with which the predominately the amount of er contribution which was agreed by this council on the twenty third of March ninety ninety er which actually relates to the size of the population , I will actually point that the thousand pounds has actually increased to one thousand three hundred , this year , because of , population has actually increased since then . |
| 15 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 16 | We could actually go to the Association of County Councils . |
| 17 | But what they have done is something quite unprecedented in my view and that is to actually write to the Secretary of State and say to him do not exercise your rights to call this matter in to consider beside or above th the County Planning Authority . |
| 18 | Could you just remind us of what it actually means to the economy of this country . |
| 19 | The primary aims are to establish an analytical framework in which the effects of ownership changes on corporate behaviour and performance can be modelled ; to compare what has actually happened to the organisation of nationalised and denationalised firms in France and Britain : and to devise appropriate tools and data sets for later empirical and econometric investigation . |
| 20 | He says that it is recorded in the that on the death of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan was authorized to give fetvas in the time of Murad II ; but that since he did not actually rise to the office of Mufti — the actual words used are " the rank of the glorious office of fetva " , fetva being used here , a — often , to indicate the Muftilik-he will not be singled out and accorded special mention . |