Example sentences of "[prep] actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , they were not directly listening for the sound /t/ in the speech as it came in , but rather determining that a word contains a /t/ after actually identifying the word . |
| 2 | What is it you 're after actually ? |
| 3 | Only 4.3% of the subjects in the violent condition could subsequently recall the number on the jersey whereas 27.9% in the non-violent condition were able to despite actually having seen the boy for a shorter period of time . |
| 4 | He also , however , goes some considerable way towards actually producing the fundamental explanatory framework of this science which is a requisite for any ‘ limited ’ inquiry . |
| 5 | er towards actually , you know , for example he is targeting West |
| 6 | Yeah you 're building steps towards actually meeting the need that you 've identified . |
| 7 | So perhaps my overkill misses the target : perhaps the behaviourist analysis of perception is sound , even though a general behaviourism is not , and what BS lacks is not knowledge of the nature of certain mental states , but only the ability to respond spontaneously to visual stimuli , that is , to respond as a result of actually seeing them . |
| 8 | But under the US system , banks stand a much greater chance of actually retaining them . |
| 9 | Terence Conran once said to me : ‘ the reason why you and I do things well is because we had our apprenticeship in restaurants , ’ and I actually think that 's a very valid point , because you 've got twenty planks to the one function of actually serving food . |
| 10 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 11 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 12 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 13 | A species is a population of interbreeding individuals ; more precisely , because we do not want to regard the blue tits on the Isle of Wight as belonging to a different species to those on the mainland , a species is a group of actually or potentially interbreeding populations . |
| 14 | ‘ Some ladies who ring up are a bit shy of actually saying the word , ’ says Rance . |
| 15 | However , I feel there should be two grades because of the difficulty of actually getting the game started with one service in some areas of junior or park tennis . |
| 16 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 17 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 18 | Dear me , thought Franca , then perhaps I might be in danger of actually becoming as saintly as I seem ! |
| 19 | The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack . |
| 20 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |
| 21 | Indeed , to put effort into scoring goals was now positively bad policy since , by taking players away from defence , it carried the risk of actually losing — and being relegated after all . |
| 22 | His refusal to compromise and his deeply suspicious nature was spoiling the pleasure of actually being part of the group . |
| 23 | Few companies reached the stage of actually discussing a deal because negotiations invariably broke down early on . |
| 24 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 25 | It is the process of actually sitting down as a family — the shared activities of discussing common goals , of settling differences amicably and of treating one another with respect and dignity — that has a healing and constructive part to play . |
| 26 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 27 | Puritan and Calvinistic tradition would not approve of actually enjoying such a ceremony and no doubt someone would have pointed out that Ruth first caught Boaz 's eye by uncovering his feet as he slept and lying alongside them . |
| 28 | Too much emphasis was placed on the necessary function of actually producing an annual programme to which different parties can agree and that identifies the full list of projects seeking funding . |
| 29 | The process of actually researching and producing their own business plan is regarded by many of the graduates as the most challenging but rewarding aspects of the programme . |
| 30 | Jasny maintained that ‘ Instead of actually rising by 55 per cent in the five years from 1927/28 to 1932/33 , as provided in the approved version of the Five Year Plan , total farm output declined by 14 per cent between 1928 and 1933 . ’ |