Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 2 | It has n't actually done cos I put that funnel on the end to stop it from doing it . |
| 3 | She 's had that , she 's had her revenge , it has n't actually caused you any grief , you 'll just have to make up some story for your mother . ’ |
| 4 | So it has n't actually failed , it 's just not up to scratch . |
| 5 | It has n't actually happened . |
| 6 | I mean it has n't actually had any grow |
| 7 | It has been argued that it did not actually initiate any changes in the mental health field , rather it endorsed the developments that were already taking place within hospitals and in the community . |
| 8 | It did n't actually exist , although they 'd probably get swarms of people prepared to join it just now if they tried . ’ |
| 9 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 10 | because it , well because it was secret and also because it was quite vague , it did n't actually set out that land redistribution was supposed to take place . |
| 11 | There was an offer in the letter if my memory 's correct but it did n't actually specify what their offer was and really I think what the Council want to do is exactly what they are offering because we have to be minded all the time that the that er applicant does not own all the land and , and certainly it is , is , is the wish I think of this Council , I believe unanimously , and , and I think a lot of the residents , that we do somehow acquire a pedestrian link . |
| 12 | According where you although it did n't actually come into practice . |
| 13 | It did n't actually have a handle on it . |
| 14 | ‘ But it did n't actually get stuck ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 16 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 17 | Any model of the mind which allows for such a possibility is not a simple one , and hints at , if it does not actually affirm , the existence of the unconscious . |
| 18 | The second major defect in the relative clause proposal is that it does not actually explain anything unless it is supplemented by some account of what a relative clause is . |
| 19 | It does not actually feel it , it has not got unpleasant subjective feelings . |
| 20 | The mean rate of crawling follows a similar pattern , although it does not actually reach zero until heat coma is entered at 27 ° C. |
| 21 | It tends to be the case that when a task is identified as being reactive you can usually delegate it down , because it 's very , it 's a monotonous , everyday task , it does n't actually move the department forward . |
| 22 | I ca n't it does n't actually tell me how many days it is . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The important things though are things like who 's gon na tutor them but it does n't actually does it and target dates , completion dates and tests to be done . |
| 25 | it does n't actually extend to having all those numbers off the top of my head . |
| 26 | Sometimes string makers print the tension of their strings on the packets , but it does n't actually mean that much . |
| 27 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 28 | It does n't actually mean necessarily erm how you behave . |
| 29 | Wonderful but it does n't actually mean anything . |
| 30 | but it does n't actually change British policy , or alter the fact that sanctions are going to be maintained against Saddam . |