Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 2 | Although this does not actually prohibit the possession of weapons whose use is illegal , it is clearly moving in that direction . |
| 3 | It does not actually feel it , it has not got unpleasant subjective feelings . |
| 4 | Though he does not actually tell us much about Eddie he tells us that Eddie could be involved in something bloody . |
| 5 | The mean rate of crawling follows a similar pattern , although it does not actually reach zero until heat coma is entered at 27 ° C. |
| 6 | The careful diplomacy with which this point has been made was undermined when the New York Times reported an off-the-record comment at the Brussels meeting suggesting that Mr Clinton ‘ feels the compulsion to do something but does not actually want to get involved . ’ |
| 7 | But when examined closely , this book ( cited by Tolstoy as one of his sources ) does not actually make any mention of a massacre at Bleiburg in the immediate aftermath of the Croat surrender on 15 May 1945 . |
| 8 | Though some of the exteriors for the film were shot on location in the real Bodega Bay , north of San Francisco , and neighbouring hamlets , the town as seen in the overhead shot does not actually exist . |
| 9 | The Middle East International of March 6 commented that the " Islamic movement had managed to score a moral victory over the government and to show that a solid secular force in Jordan does not actually exist " . |
| 10 | Matthew does not actually record the birth of Jesus . |
| 11 | ‘ Plum ’ consequently became a blanket term for dried fruit , which explains why plum pudding does not actually contain any . |
| 12 | As we are about to see , Darwin 's use of Herbert Spencer 's resounding phrase ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , does not actually represent the nature of the process adequately and over-emphasizes part of it . |
| 13 | The suggestion of sleep is only a metaphor ; the subject does not actually drop off but keeps his attention focused on the hypnotist 's words instead . |
| 14 | The second major defect in the relative clause proposal is that it does not actually explain anything unless it is supplemented by some account of what a relative clause is . |
| 15 | Any model of the mind which allows for such a possibility is not a simple one , and hints at , if it does not actually affirm , the existence of the unconscious . |
| 16 | It seems that this tax charge does not actually cancel out the potential tax charge referred to above but it is difficult to see how there can be double tax problems because there can only be a charge on monies remitted to the United Kingdom and this can not extend beyond the amounts actually available to be so remitted . |
| 17 | I have cheated a bit by not mentioning them until now , but the first mention of women by the union does not actually occur until late January and early February , that is when the strike was already entering its final phase . |
| 18 | Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form . |
| 19 | However , several consonants are generally accepted as phonemes of RP despite not being free to occur in all positions ( e.g. , , , , , ) , so this argument , though supporting the one-phoneme analysis , does not actually prove that , must be classed with other single-consonant phonemes . |
| 20 | This point emerged in a 1986 case in which the High Court accepted that a person seeking a job relies on the accuracy of a reference about his character and capabilities even if he does not actually ask for it himself . |
| 21 | After all , he does not actually seek the result to which the polls have been pointing since the election campaign began . |
| 22 | He does not actually forbid remarriage for those whose partner has died , but his view seems to be that this is not God 's purpose for marriage . |
| 23 | One of Foucault 's most significant insights is that the controller at the centre of the panopticon does not actually need to be in the lantern for pacification of the surrounding inmates to take place . |
| 24 | Presumably A is being prosecuted for murder ; but the question does not actually say that A 's fellows were killed as a result of what he did . |
| 25 | Third , although Lubeck does not actually say it , the implication of the argument is that ‘ progressive capitalist development ’ is an indigenous , national , project . |
| 26 | The Hyades , extending from the bright orange star Aldebaran in Taurus ( the Bull ) cover a much wider area than the Pleiades , and are also somewhat overpowered by Aldebaran , which does not actually belong to the cluster at all , but merely happens to lie about midway between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 27 | Since the lace carriage does not actually knit the stitches , it needs a place to ‘ rest ’ while not in operation . |
| 28 | The main accusation levelled against boundary routing is that the technology does not actually decrease overall complexity of the network , it merely shifts it from the periphery to the central hub . |
| 29 | In short , the administration does not actually know why it wants a space station . |
| 30 | A spokesman for Stickley & Kent , one of the UK 's biggest repossession auctioneers said : ‘ We sold a couple of flats last month for Pounds 5,000 , but by and large anyone buying a repossessed home does not actually get a bargain . |