Example sentences of "they [modal v] actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward , and sometimes , in flight down a steep place , they may actually go head over heels . |
| 2 | But that means at some point they may actually go below it . |
| 3 | Equally , many people sell their house and move somewhere smaller without taking account of the fact that when they are spending more time at home they may actually want more space , rather than less . |
| 4 | They may actually conclude that openness is actually a strategy top management has devised to cover up its impermeability to influence . |
| 5 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 6 | franchise , they may actually get , I 'm I 'm |
| 7 | They may actually have to take risks : all the fault of Mrs Thatcher , but not because she was too interested in the entrepreneurs ; quite the contrary , because she over-egged the pudding for the house-owning classes . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , businessmen are generally optimistic and see the increase in demand as a signal for further increases , they may actually buy more machines than predicted by the accelerator theory . |
| 9 | They may actually turn the new rules to their advantage . |
| 10 | Therefore they may actually lose weight even though apparently consuming large quantities of food . |
| 11 | ‘ Whilst we support land reclamation , urban redevelopment and housing improvements , and recognise they can improve the quality of life for many people in Wales , unless these activities are designed to achieve more than just aesthetic goals they may actually increase environmental damage through energy consumption , waste generation , increased resource demands and traffic flows ’ , said Dr Neil Caldwell , CPRW 's Director . |
| 12 | Moreover , in the case of negatively valenced emotions there is evidence that they may actually impair recall . |
| 13 | ‘ The Government keeps talking about growth , and now they must actually do something . ’ |
| 14 | They will actually responsibility of Local Government and er we 've tried to put in here something that even Conservative Councillors could support , even though it 's attacking Conservative Ministers , cos they must actually believe in Local Government to actually serve on Local Government , one would think , but er , but th the problems of under-funding are th could be very serious . |
| 15 | They will actually responsibility of Local Government and er we 've tried to put in here something that even Conservative Councillors could support , even though it 's attacking Conservative Ministers , cos they must actually believe in Local Government to actually serve on Local Government , one would think , but er , but th the problems of under-funding are th could be very serious . |
| 16 | Such policy simulation forms the basis of the advice that economists give to governments about what policies they should actually undertake . |
| 17 | You know what I mean , that is down to the individual really is that er that they should actually find out and i , that needs to be highlighted to all |
| 18 | what they and they if it 's a good course they should actually have some sort of estimate of this |
| 19 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 20 | Wha , what they 'll actually do er they 'll suspend your A A membership now for |
| 21 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 22 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 23 | and er they had to call us in , well Dick went out and er I think it was actually two separate visits so they must of , cos they 're refurbishing the place you see so they must of moved into one office and thought oh you know this do n't work , move into another office the day after , well this do n't work either and he , he actually did two separate visits , whether they 'll actually bill them for it I do n't know , but I mean it 's a minimum of an hour in both cases so |
| 24 | Theorists love sort of debating concepts and arguments they do n't want to , to , wo n't accept them at face value , they 'll actually challenge them and enjoy the rationale , enjoy discussing them . |
| 25 | When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye . |
| 26 | We have some people on training courses who could tell that they 're quite theorists cos question of challenge if you actually put forward some ideas they 'll , they 'll question them , not in a negative way , but they just want to know well where have these come from and why and why is this and on your training courses what theorists will do is if you 're actually putting together forward and processing procedures that C U follow , they 'll question why they wo n't just accept it , they 'll actually question it , not in the negative way but they 'll want to understand it . |
| 27 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 28 | Well they just kind of recognized the principles do n't they but they do n't ensure that they 'll actually put them into practise . |
| 29 | whether they 'll actually put additional money in |
| 30 | They , they will they wo n't they wo n't just turn them up they 'll actually cut them . |