Example sentences of "it [vb mod] actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may actually mean that you 're getting a bit too rough on your skin ! |
| 2 | Not being taken in by the belief that " help " of one kind or another really is helpful : it may actually hinder someone else 's growth towards maturity . |
| 3 | Slime algae should be removed as it may actually grow over the encrusting species which , of course , are growing directly on the substrate , to their obvious detriment . |
| 4 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 5 | It penetrates the carcase of its prey at one end , usually the head end , and it may actually leave the skin intact while progressively eating through the insides of the animal . |
| 6 | It may actually paralyse the person and put them on erm a life-support machine . |
| 7 | You never know , it may actually work better than you think . |
| 8 | It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this . |
| 9 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 10 | It should actually pull through all your need . |
| 11 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 12 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 13 | It should actually have a clip so that you stick it in your inside pocket |
| 14 | If all the leading players were to head elsewhere it might actually make it easier for the WPGET to cater for those left behind with a series of small tournaments ; perhaps multi-sponsored events in the £30,000 bracket — a small sum when set against the £300,000 prize fund for this year 's Weetabix British Open , but a realistic figure at which to aim . |
| 15 | And as I say , if it was done in a very civilized way by people who 'd perhaps learnt to smile or somehow turn this , what must be a minor offence , into a minor occasion , erm I think it , it might actually ease relationships . |
| 16 | On the one hand we have Prince Charles and Lady Di encouraging us to do voluntary work , telling us how noble it is and on the other hand we are told it might actually go against us because it takes up our valuable time when we should be looking for work . |
| 17 | No one yet knows if this sort of thing happens in a dying brain , but if it does , it might actually explain how many angels can dance on the head of a pin . |
| 18 | The bonuses well , it might , it might actually work . |
| 19 | Looking back , it might actually have helped that I was a bit blue . |
| 20 | Now this sounds as though it 'll actually make quite a difference to perhaps a small farmer . |
| 21 | Because it 's , it , it ca n't be very easy to , to make contact with a , a regime like the Vietnam regime , I mean are you hopeful that it 'll actually do any good ? |
| 22 | Can items for the management team executive committee , I think I have three , erm one is to say that the the title of the total quality programme is going to be improvement through quality , in which case that 's the , that 's the phraseology which we should use from now on , is it like , it 'll actually abbreviate to I Q rather than T Q. |
| 23 | Swift Tuttle 's next visit will be in the year 2126 , when at best there 'll be a close shave , giving a spectacular night time fireworks dislay , or at worst , it 'll actually collide with the earth . |
| 24 | Cos it 'll actually take me till about half past the day to get any feeling in it , but as I say |
| 25 | But it it 'll actually reduce costs later because later on it 's just a matter of |
| 26 | He said Darlington had attracted a lot of new companies and businesses and if the town was downgraded it could actually deter others from coming to the town . |
| 27 | One among these types of network , freemasonry , served an even more important purpose in certain countries , notably Roman Catholic Latin ones , for it could actually serve as the ideological cement for the liberal bourgeoisie in its political dimension , or indeed , as in Italy , as virtually the only permanent and national organisation of the class . |
| 28 | Whereas if we 're very careful about how we put the message across , it could actually do the opposite in that , people see that they 're entitled to a certain basic level if you like , to enable them |
| 29 | Hunger was an unknown experience ; she had never imagined it could actually hurt . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you think doing it could actually hurt me ? |