Example sentences of "be actually [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 2 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 3 | As would be expected , such a use would not be possible with make , since the law would appear to be actually bringing about the paying of taxes ( " concurrent causation " ) : ( 166 ) * The law makes everyone pay his taxes , With oblige , on the other hand , the tax law is depicted as simply imposing a state of obligation in the present , which leaves the future actualization of paying taxes up to each individual , who may or may not actually pay them . |
| 4 | ‘ Talk about being desperate to get back out on the road , but we were actually counting down the days between finishing the album and starting this tour , ’ quoth guitarist Andy Couzens . |
| 5 | Er Chairman there was mention from the Conservative bench that were actually closing down the South East , well there 's no suggestion of that . |
| 6 | Once you have cast off several stitches , move the weight , so that it is actually hanging on the cast off edge . |
| 7 | Dawkins ( 1976 , 1978 ) has argued strongly that considering the individual animal as the unit of selection is a form of shorthand for what is actually selected down the generations is the gene , or over short time spans , groups of associated genes . |
| 8 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |
| 9 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |