Example sentences of "[prep] actually [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Once a week ministers will get their intelligence summary in the ‘ Red Book ’ , all the trouble spots in the world , and one pays clever people like you to actually sit there and be plugged in as best one can to the trouble spots , with much better sources of information than the poor old chap in the street , to alert ministers on our behalf of potential disasters .
2 obviously identifiable it 's a very effective one and also the structured thought patterns idea er before you go into something to actually sit down and prepare something er your thoughts in a developing from there er it 's a very simple thing to do but very effective .
3 also the people on the ground I mean er surely it would n't do any harm to actually sit down and put some veiws forward from the whole department
4 We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command .
5 I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so
6 It 's quite a shortsighted policy , if you look at the er , because , if you erm , if you introduce subsidies to actually protect the domestic industry then that 's often going to cause retaliation from other countries and therefore effectively sealing off any trade , any effective trade at all , and consequently because there 's no competitive pressure on the domestic industries , they 're not going to feel the need to make themselves more productive , which they would do when there was competition .
7 ‘ I would hope that between now and polling day those people would make up their mind to actually vote , not out of habit , but for us .
8 ‘ I would hope that between now and polling day those people would make up their mind to actually vote , not out of habit , but for us .
9 Er you 'll find that we do have actually have a calculator which we can send out with a retirement pack and that actually gives you an aide-memoire to actually remind you about the things that you might forget erm with regard to erm things like er holidays er erm say , medical expenses , er fuel expenses , erm club fees , T V licence , all those things .
10 But there seems to be no move to actually control or regulate the food industry .
11 What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say
12 It seems you need a person like that to actually change the existing order .
13 We went round various different avenues and to I asked Ian and Nick to actually change the formulation and decrease the amount of nutrients that were put in a mix .
14 she probably would n't become a manager , because usually you think you can change and develop but I think she 'll be then be able to become a manager and she 'll sort of learn , but she 'd have to actually change her personality for it .
15 Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so
16 Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling .
17 Well I think until we know the full facts , it 's difficult to actually blame anybody , er for this , this particular incident .
18 And I actually found that it was , it was better to actually talk to them than just send them
19 to actually talk about it .
20 John Power if you 'd like to stay on the line just a moment , because I 've got another gentleman who wants to actually talk about that , it 's Les erm calling from Oxford — hello Les .
21 If it becomes a question for the County Council to actually refund it then I think the report is right in that we must consider whether the needs for traffic calming here are any m higher or lower than other requests for traffic calming elsewhere in the county because you will be aware there are an awful lot of requests for traffic calming .
22 So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester .
23 For the purposes of completing this project and covering some grand skylines in Snowdonia , the Lakes and Scotland — I had to take time out from my more usual pastime to actually walk those mountain crests .
24 It seemed to take an enormous amount of courage to actually walk up to the door and knock .
25 In many cases when creating this effect , it is not enough just to tie a bow in a piece of ribbon , and you may have to actually create a bow from a piece of material in order to produce the right effect .
26 to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff .
27 A member of the working class is more likely to benefit through securing the benefits of collective organisation while doing the least possible to actually create such collectives .
28 Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement .
29 The ‘ non-active ’ mode is used for moving around the screen whilst the ‘ active ’ mode is required to actually plot a point .
30 It is harder than you think to actually stir yourself and make the effort to put a good idea into practice .
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