Example sentences of "be actually [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
2 | We 're actually the only animals that smile and enjoy a good giggle . |
3 | Sometimes I 've er Okay so it seems like it seems like a terrific amount to think about while you 're standing here does n't it as well as thinking about what you 're actually the content of what you 're actually going to say . |
4 | Bu cos we 're actually the only ones that have their rate bill Barry 's has n't . |
5 | Yes so they 're actually the least attractive bit of the dress , I think is the fastening and the boning underneath . |
6 | I 'm actually a patron , a trustee or vice president of more than twenty charities and organisations . |
7 | I 'm actually a journalist , erm |
8 | ‘ By the way , ’ Kingsley added , ‘ I 'm actually a priest myself . |
9 | " I daresay I 'm actually the greatest living authority on Vangmoor . " |
10 | Their imitation was not wrong and , if they were actually a vital and in some cases dominant part of English Christianity , was their ‘ imitation ’ of Gothic buildings any more wrong than that of their Anglican competitors ? |
11 | Looked at positively , we might say that all these things were actually a realisation that the stresses and strains of modernity could not be coped with by further doses of materialism . |
12 | Malraux 's Maisons de Culture , which he established up and down the country after becoming de Gaulle 's Minister of Culture in 1959 were actually a Vichyite idea which came into its own when de Gaulle realised that culture could become the faithful servant of Gaullist grandeur . |
13 | Modern paleontologists argue that these supposedly linear trends were actually a product of the imagination seeking to impose order upon a relatively small number of fossils . |
14 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
15 | And Thomas and John Smith , who I 've just mentioned were actually a split family , Thomas Smith was erm so loyal that when the first round of parliament , sorry , when the first Royalist troops came into Oxford , he , as a J P prosecuted some of the citizens who tried to stop them blocking down Botley Bridge as a defence measure . |
16 | South of the modern steel town off the A692 a deep ravine called Hownes Gill has some ‘ caves ’ , which were actually the entrances to stone mines . |
17 | Country folklore has it that dobies were actually the sad little GHOSTS of unwanted or plain women , who would fumble around the house trying to be useful until their spirits had been exorcised . |
18 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
19 | Even if the black hole did emit the right kinds of particles , one could not tell if they were actually the same particles that had gone down the other hole . |
20 | Only once does Aristophanes play on the possibility that the demagogues , for all their ‘ philodemos ’ pretensions , were actually an undemocratic force : in the Wasps ( 715ff. ) ‘ they ( the demagogues ) insincerely promise to give you , that is the people , corn doles , and even to hand over Euboia to you ’ . |
21 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
22 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
23 | There is actually a television room as well , I think , but if you do want to keep yourself to yourself that 's fine . |
24 | We always tell folk to watch out for clubroot , because the wallflower is actually a member of the cabbage family . |
25 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
26 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |
27 | Officially described as Fibresand ( a composite of silica sand reinforced with rot-proof synthetic fibres ) , which is used widely for exercise gallops , the Southwell track is actually a mixture of Fibresand , rubber particles and polymer . |
28 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
29 | Røst is actually a small group of islets rather than a single island , and a haven for birds in the spring . |
30 | The video is actually a parody of Robert Palmer , the slithering lounge lizard of pop who four years ago thought it cool to cast his videos with countless women dressed exactly the same , acting like mass-produced mannequins . |