Example sentences of "[verb] actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we know from any game , say cricket , only when an individual scores more on his last ( marginal ) innings than his average for all previous innings , will his overall average actually rise . |
| 2 | HyperDisk actually comes in several flavours . |
| 3 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 4 | Stages 2 and REM were significantly reduced , while Stage 4 sleep actually increased slightly . |
| 5 | Lawyers who think that judges should take a pragmatic attitude toward legal rights sometimes say the community has actually decided that they should , at least tacitly . |
| 6 | Charles has actually planned a route across the Martian south pole using photographs taken by the Viking and Mariner probes . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 8 | The people of the tribe or village agree to them participating in their lives to some extent but there is no pretence that the lady from America has actually become a Polynesian native . |
| 9 | In football , rugby , or cricket the ability to stop the frame at the crucial moment or play-back a sequence , which has come recently with the development of video , has actually placed the viewer and the commentator in a better position to make a decision than the unfortunate referee or umpire . |
| 10 | Bettelheim and Zelan ( 1982 ) demonstrate how vocabulary load in readers has actually diminished across the years : First readers in the 1920s contained on average 645 different words ; in the 1930s 460 , in the 1940s and 1950s 350 words . |
| 11 | Radio 4 could easily rename their show Just An Hour and put Merton on every week ( Just A Minute , tellingly , is the only show he has actually asked to be included on ) . |
| 12 | Yes , w well you said it And I think we are entitled to ask Mr whether he has actually asked the tenants for their views . |
| 13 | The language , though , is gratingly anachronistic — no one has actually said ‘ hopefully ’ yet , but I fear it is only a matter of time . |
| 14 | That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said . |
| 15 | M Mr Deputy Speaker , you will have seen if you read these er orders in front of us today running to at least er I reckon about ten thousand words , but by and large , all and sundry are going to be bote , er going to be out of vote on June the ninth , citizens of the European union and the minister has actually said on one or two occasions , all citizens of the union , well it is not true that all citizens of the union will be able to vote on er June the ninth . |
| 16 | In this respect they contrast with another set of objections , which point to ambiguities in the claims Althusser has actually made ; and one of the most pertinent of these concerns his account of ideology . |
| 17 | Only one state , Chile , has actually made a declaration under Article 16 . |
| 18 | They 've now , this government has actually made a , a fifty three year or a fifty four week year . |
| 19 | The actual show has actually made money . |
| 20 | are that this is transmitted throughout the world within minutes of being spoken so you have the monarchy which has tried to make itself populist , has actually made its language much more populist . |
| 21 | " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made . |
| 22 | In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted . |
| 23 | But as a result of other companies either closing down or reducing their workforce , employment in this area of industry has actually fallen . |
| 24 | Since demand has risen by a smaller amount than previously , investment has actually fallen . |
| 25 | I , I mean obviously I hope the decisions will go my way because Keith has actually argued in the past that we should disregard F E , because he says it 's , it 's impossible to fairly take account of that , and what he means is there 's no F E formulae in Northallerton , so he knows that if F E is excluded Northallerton will be at a major divan |
| 26 | Everybody is afraid of the phantom — but who has actually seen him ? |
| 27 | She had said , A man I 'm convinced has actually seen what my husband saw . |
| 28 | A further danger to avoid is agreeing in advance to disclose a particular medical report , or indeed any other sort of expert 's report , before one has actually seen it . |
| 29 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman on Treasury affairs has actually stated this as a belief — |
| 30 | with these posts as well , because it has actually stated we have employed an Environmental Officer . |