Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] actually [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not actually suggest communication between continents with the aid of geostationary satellites , but if he was taken now to a satellite ground-station he would not be numbed with astonishment . |
| 2 | It should be established at the outset that many large blue-chip companies do not actually use search at all . |
| 3 | These steps are needed but do not actually take advantage of the skills of bilingual pupils . |
| 4 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 5 | I did n't actually visit Mum for very long but old Mrs McSporran told me all the news of the Senior Citizens and our deacon gave me a few tips about growing rhubarb . |
| 6 | The Labour Party says the firm continued trading without insuring holidaymakers ' money , because Mr Heseltine told them they did n't actually NEED insurance . |
| 7 | Yeah , oh what , I did n't actually say fuck that , I know I 've got to go and get your present you know . |
| 8 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 9 | Er y you do n't actually leave go of the cord straight away . |
| 10 | Yet many people do n't actually want desktop publishing in the Macintosh sense , they want better quality word processors which can integrate text and graphics . |
| 11 | I do n't actually play football any more , you see . |
| 12 | As I somewhat impatiently explained , we do n't actually teach English . |
| 13 | The mean rate of crawling follows a similar pattern , although it does not actually reach zero until heat coma is entered at 27 ° C. |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It does n't actually name Software Ireland , but says the acquisition will give its Arccom Management Systems subsidiary three strategic advantages — more control over its mainstay product line ; advance information on new products currently in development ; and a voice in decisions for follow-on products — and Arccom , in Marietta , Georgia is the exclusive North American distributor for Software Ireland 's Unibol migration , conversion and recompilation system , which converts IBM Corp RPG II applications for Unix systems . |