Example sentences of "not actually [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That in any state in which the distinction is not actually observed between the constitution and the government there is in reality no constitution , because the will of the government has no check upon it , and that state is in fact a despotism . |
| 2 | The word ‘ new ’ did not actually appear on the order form but nevertheless it was clear from the form that the car would come either from the manufacturer 's stock at the factory or off the production line . |
| 3 | The benefit — the payments from the trust — is not actually received in the United Kingdom ; it is paid overseas to the overseas lender . |
| 4 | The exhibition also features four of his sculptures , including the bronzes ‘ Les travaux et les jours d'Hésiode ’ and ‘ Hymen ’ , which was not actually cast until the 1950s . |
| 5 | Most of the following communities are not actually recorded for the Outer Hebrides in the NVC ( unless explicitly stated ) but might well occur . |
| 6 | Also found on dunes is the Variegated horse-tail community , which may occur where there are records of Equisetum variegatum , although it is not actually recorded from the Outer Hebrides . |
| 7 | If he had not actually gone into the room he would not have seen Gina ; she was standing against one of the bookcases hidden from him by the open door . |
| 8 | Always replace the cover when you are not actually looking at the worms . |
| 9 | Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union . |
| 10 | Efforts began to secure FDIC backing for banks not actually bankrupted by the collapse . |
| 11 | On that basis of the civil law , the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 , that when a child not actually born at the time of an accident was subsequently born alive and viable , it was clothed with all the rights of action which it would have had if actually in existence at the date of the accident to the mother . |
| 12 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
| 13 | It must not be forgotten that independent parts given to the feebler instruments are not actually heard in the tutti , but may play havoc with the clarity of design which should be the orchestrator 's first aim . |
| 14 | He was not actually dismissed from the service , though it was because of alcohol that he was asked to volunteer his own early resignation . |
| 15 | It is suggested that the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Eurocopy case is the more equitable solution , particularly in circumstances where a disclosure is expressly brought to the attention of the vendor before completion but is not actually incorporated in the final disclosure letter . |
| 16 | Well I I 'm I think that er I 'm less worried about dating it cos I think it actually quite important to date it , like the war memorial ground and actually fairly closely although it 's not actually dated to the end of the war , I mean it was nineteen fifty two when it was established . |
| 17 | Part of that reordering was Gloucester 's exchange of Skipton in Craven for Chirk in 1475 , endorsed if not actually organized by the crown , which was a tacit acknowledgement of the division of power between the Stanleys and Gloucester . |
| 18 | Part of that reordering was Gloucester 's exchange of Skipton in Craven for Chirk in 1475 , endorsed if not actually organized by the crown , which was a tacit acknowledgement of the division of power between the Stanleys and Gloucester . |
| 19 | and that 's where the back door is , in the other bedroom you 've got a ventilator you know but it 's not actually facing into the bedroom , it 's facing outwards towards the bathroom , you know and the stairs |
| 20 | Erm well i it can be quite nice cos you okay , you we you 're speaking to parents and that who 've had kids that have gone and died you 're not actually dealing with the kids themselves . |
| 21 | Such inconsistencies make it clear that the age-regressed person is not actually functioning at the suggested age level , nor is his recollection truly accurate . |
| 22 | If the County Court issues a certificate authorizing the alterations , the tenant may claim compensation for the improvements made when the tenancy ends , although the landlord had not actually consented to the alterations . |
| 23 | At this stage the channel cables were not actually connected to the peripherals so that testing of the processor and channels could be carried out without affecting the existing systems . |
| 24 | Exporting was not actually mentioned on the programme , but it must have helped , ’ said Mr Cowie . |
| 25 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 26 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 27 | Their abuse was tolerated if not actually encouraged by the general public . |
| 28 | If your employer agrees to your early departure , you will still be regarded as dismissed in law if the agreement is simply , in effect , to bring forward your dismissal date or if it is agreed that you need not actually work during the remainder of your notice period . |
| 29 | Staff were thus subject to military law and discipline ( Sartorius 1976 ) and the threat of militarization hung over them , although it was not actually used during the Franco period . |
| 30 | The difference exists , as such , synchronically ; there is no need to import any knowledge of the history of the language that is not actually used by the ordinary speaker in the course of his or her normal unreflecting usage . |