Example sentences of "it actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | This deficiency should n't affect the yield and tends to look more serious than it actually is . |
| 2 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 3 | His nose was obviously irritating him and he banged it both with his paw and on the stone road until it actually bled . |
| 4 | The best hope of it actually achieving power would be a prolonged demonstration by the Conservative Government that it can not run the economy competently . |
| 5 | It actually achieved 861 — a shortfall of 13 per cent . |
| 6 | It set up a succession of bodies to deal with the problem , but in 1922 it actually cut back expenditure , already insufficient , in this sphere . |
| 7 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |
| 8 | If it were 20 per cent greater , there would be no less dissatisfaction and unfulfilled demand at the margin ; if it were 20 per cent less — I do not mean if it were reduced by 20 per cent but if it were now 20 per cent less than it actually is , nobody would be the wiser . |
| 9 | And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists . |
| 10 | The suspension was much as I remembered it , crashing a bit over poor surfaces but generally sounding worse than it actually felt . |
| 11 | Over Stonewall Hill , near Presteigne , it actually forms the border . |
| 12 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 13 | We had about six or seven weeks to finish the album and by the last week , I did n't have a vocal on two of the tracks and this is where it actually began — David writing on microphone . |
| 14 | But it actually costs about £4,300 a year to buy , tax , insure and run a 1.6 litre car , according to the Monks Partnership , a firm of management-remuneration consultants . |
| 15 | From saying that a thing ought to belong to a man , that it ought to be used for his benefit , you come to saying that it actually is his , ‘ in equity ’ or ‘ in conscience ’ . |
| 16 | It actually made him smirk … so it was said . |
| 17 | It feels compact and rather smaller than it actually is . |
| 18 | ‘ It actually took 7 months of enquiries to locate the right type of pesticide-resistant clear plastic from Germany . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps it represents not a past concrete social reality as it actually existed , but rather the ideas men who lived then had about their responsibilities and claims , their liabilities and privileges and freedom . |
| 20 | In a regular line of buttons , their spacing will seem greater than it actually is , unless they are touching . |
| 21 | Unless , indeed , it actually increased the incidence of emigration ! |
| 22 | Again , men like John Clifford or Silvester Horne , active in Liberal politics , saw their preaching labelled as more ‘ social ’ than it actually was precisely because of their political work . |
| 23 | You leave the theatre with the empty feeling that comes from watching a piece which ( like a salesman ) promises much more than it actually delivers . |
| 24 | This natural gas , formed from uranium and radium , seeps out of the ground — in Cornwall it actually comes through the granite — and can build up to cancer-inducing levels if measures are not taken to deal with it properly . |
| 25 | Although Crimson had ‘ the grace of a musk ox with a musket ’ , was it actually any worse than Graham Swift ? |
| 26 | The trick with the watches was more than a technical stunt , it actually worked in the context of the piece , sucking the audience even further into the spell . |
| 27 | In his important book The concept of mind ( 1949 ) Ryle exploded the dogma by successfully demonstrating that , as used in the Cartesian ‘ myth ’ , the term represents the facts of mental life as if it belonged to one logical type or category , when it actually belongs to another . |
| 28 | Second , it actually overrides the differences between animate and inanimate , and thereby between the personal and impersonal , by perpetuating the myth of the universe as one big ‘ thing ’ , usually thought of in personal terms — as in the idea of ‘ mother earth ’ . |
| 29 | Or early this morning as it actually was . ’ |
| 30 | It was rousing stuff , but what did it actually mean ? |