Example sentences of "[verb] not actually [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 2 | Misunderstandings about the nature of the recordings contributed to some confusion in the early 1960s about whether the eye movements of dreaming sleep did or did not actually follow the action of the dream . |
| 3 | He did not actually touch the substance , but , in the absence of adequate safety measures , he was likely to inhale microparticles . |
| 4 | What was interesting in this study was that subjects ' eye movements showed that they looked longer and more frequently at syntactic errors even when they did not actually report the errors . |
| 5 | They do not actually reflect the true nature of what Conservatives want . ’ |
| 6 | This is an important medium in the school , since a fair proportion of teachers do not actually teach the pupils they hear talked about . |
| 7 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 8 | As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult . |
| 9 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 10 | Never mind that Prime Ministers do not actually own the Elgin marbles . |
| 11 | ( 8 ) This enquiry refers to the rights of those who do not actually own the property but who may , for example , occupy it . |
| 12 | Do not actually provide the protection that people think . |
| 13 | Although this does not actually prohibit the possession of weapons whose use is illegal , it is clearly moving in that direction . |
| 14 | Matthew does not actually record the birth of Jesus . |
| 15 | As we are about to see , Darwin 's use of Herbert Spencer 's resounding phrase ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , does not actually represent the nature of the process adequately and over-emphasizes part of it . |
| 16 | Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form . |
| 17 | After all , he does not actually seek the result to which the polls have been pointing since the election campaign began . |
| 18 | Since the lace carriage does not actually knit the stitches , it needs a place to ‘ rest ’ while not in operation . |
| 19 | This makes the figure identical to the ‘ lazy eight ’ where the nose of the model does not actually cross the pilot 's eye line . |
| 20 | If one does not raise more money from the top bands , one does not actually help the people in the lower bands . |