Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] actually [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up !
2 But when examined closely , this book ( cited by Tolstoy as one of his sources ) does not actually make any mention of a massacre at Bleiburg in the immediate aftermath of the Croat surrender on 15 May 1945 .
3 ‘ Plum ’ consequently became a blanket term for dried fruit , which explains why plum pudding does not actually contain any .
4 However , several consonants are generally accepted as phonemes of RP despite not being free to occur in all positions ( e.g. , , , , , ) , so this argument , though supporting the one-phoneme analysis , does not actually prove that , must be classed with other single-consonant phonemes .
5 If a lorry driver does not actually drive each day because business is slack , but receives his usual wages , he is not justified in complaining about lack of actual driving work .
6 Well it it tells you quite a lot , but it does n't actually mention that bit .
7 Well , the scriptures really mention how a man drives for the kingdom of God , so mainly it 's the man , I do n't know whether women go to the , the heavenly ground , it does n't actually mention that does it anywhere ?
8 I mean that 's what I thought this movement towards egalitarianism is n't , does n't actually reflect any change in ideology at all .
9 For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years .
10 Unfortunately most people have no idea that they have high blood pressure because it does n't actually feel any different .
11 Well it does n't actually make less people depressed that its predecessors , the great thing about it is is that it only only one quarter of the people who take it get side effects .
12 High pay does n't actually mean that , that everybody is less wealthy , it generally means that people are more wealthy .
13 Washing food does n't actually have much effect on residue levels ( though it 's important for removing dirt and bacteria ) but peeling and removing the outer leaves of foods like cabbages and lettuce reduces residue levels significantly .
14 Well , as far as one is concerned with the A Nineteen , er is n't it fair to say that the northern and western boundaries are so er constructed with hedges and trees that in fact while er er one is travelling along the A Nineteen one does n't actually have any meaningful view of the conservation area in any event ?
15 ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ it turns out that Mishkin does n't actually have any money himself .
16 We we do n't actually We 've got It 's got nine oxygen in it already , right so this one does n't actually need any air .
17 It does n't actually say that , it just gives a but if you say whoopee I have passed .
18 Once again it 's quite low an and er certainly if it dips much below where it is , you certainly can feel dizzy and faint , and of course the medication does n't actually help that , which is one of the reasons why we need
19 this diagram does n't actually incorporate this but full thing is going to be the initial costs , the costs of moving , okay , so there , there may be actual physical costs involved this diagram .
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