Example sentences of "[noun] actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This explains that ‘ Our recommendations begin with matters such as how people may in the future learn more effectively what being a citizen actually means … . |
| 2 | Thought to be quintessentially English , primroses actually grow right across Europe from Majorca to Iran and wherever you look they vary slightly . |
| 3 | What we are going to do is differentiate the average product function the average product , right , is the quotient of total product right , and the the amount of labour actually used and as a result if you want to differentiate it you can use a quotient rule of differentiation . |
| 4 | Let us ignore for the moment what Labour actually means by that ; how will it deliver on its promise , bearing in mind the fact that the nuclear industry is already ring fenced , gas contracts have already been signed and committed to combined cycle gas turbine plant , and coal imports are perfectly legal under European law ? |
| 5 | The notion of overinclusive thinking actually arose originally from studies of schizophrenia ; yet , as already mentioned , it is found as , if not more , commonly in people diagnosed as suffering from mania , helping to account for the wild ‘ flight of ideas ’ typically observed in that condition . |
| 6 | The Guitarist staff are as cynical and critical as anyone else and a favourable review reflects how well an amplifier actually performs . |
| 7 | Richard Branson actually did n't know the price of a pint of milk . |
| 8 | ‘ All the social workers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs , while the priest actually lives in the parish . |
| 9 | Only a few of the particles fed into the SPS actually collide ; the remainder just fly past each other . |
| 10 | What 's divide actually means in twos is that you share it |
| 11 | Pietro had finally agreed to Zen 's presence , on condition that there was no contact until the pay-off actually began , so during the intervening forty-eight hours he had had nothing to do with the case beyond having the ransom money photographed to record the serial numbers and finalizing the arrangements for collecting Ruggiero when he was released . |
| 12 | Would it not be a good idea if the Opposition actually trumpeted these successes in the British manufacturing industry instead of moaning and complaining and doing British industry down ? |
| 13 | In The Place of the Lion , the Platonic archetypes of which objects and creatures in the world are but reflections or repetitions actually appear . |
| 14 | No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals . |
| 15 | Our total vote actually went down and in areas hit by high unemployment , like my own constituency in the West Midlands , there was a swing to the Alliance of David Steel and David Owen . |
| 16 | Unlike in London and the metropolitan areas , the Tory vote actually fell compared with 1986 , and Labour 's share rose by more than 10% . |
| 17 | If newspaper trains ceased to cause nocturnal activity over much of the system , the number of travelling Post Offices actually increased . |
| 18 | Or , we needed labels actually do n't we , what have we got in there ? |
| 19 | In spite of this instruction Thorndyke actually followed the procedure of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and scored the amount of information recalled irrespective of whether the exact wording was remembered . |
| 20 | In sixth form days , he and John Irwin actually invented a joke in a free period ( ‘ I ca n't remember how it went now , something involving a foreskin , no doubt ’ ) . |
| 21 | A recognisable conventional poetic strategy of indicating the power of verse to create lasting reputation , with the usual implication that what the poet actually desires is physical enjoyment of the transitory beauty , is here rendered unstable . |
| 22 | Indeed , TMA 1970 , s76 provides that a trustee who has authorised the receipt of profits arising from trust property by or by the agent of the person entitled thereto ( the beneficiary ) , shall not if : ( a ) that person or agent actually receives the profits under that authority ; and ( b ) the trustee makes a return of the name , address and profits of that person be required to do any other act for the purposes of the assessment of that person to income tax . |
| 23 | As we also found earlier , it is far from easy to specify exactly what being an autonomous agent actually consists in , although we have a firm conception of a kind of ideal type — someone moved by the pure light of reason who ponders the evidence before them and makes considered , unconstrained decisions . |
| 24 | Then , since it is whether or not a cell actually responds that determines whether it undergoes the slow modification process , the slow process would make cortical neurons become permanently tuned to this uncorrelated set of features . |
| 25 | Many of the chemical reactions in the cell actually go on in the fabric of membranes ; a membrane acts as a combined conveyor-belt and test-tube rack . |
| 26 | According to the researchers , the new cell actually works better under cloud cover than in full sunlight . |
| 27 | This proved very difficult because , between the time of the decision being taken to move Cossors to Harlow and the time that my wife , my wife 's department actually went , the Development Corporation had changed their policy and would not have married women as tenants . |
| 28 | Secondly , it is the case that this rule of recognition , in terms of which he assesses the validity of a particular statute , is not only accepted by him but is the rule of recognition actually accepted and employed in the general operation of the system . |
| 29 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 30 | While the idea that the response to crime actually caused more crime was pleasantly ironic , it was nevertheless still very much a causal-sounding theory , and one of a particularly deterministic nature . |