Example sentences of "[not/n't] actually [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DESPITE THE sneer in his Jonathan Ross-like Cockney voice , Merton is clearly a warm and generous human being — not actually above all this , just sort of beyond it . |
| 2 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 3 | When they 're not actually at war , Orcs spend all their time fighting each other to establish rights of leadership . |
| 4 | Its practitioners were overwhelmingly concerned with rulers , battles , treaties , political events or politico-legal institutions , in a word with retrospective politics , if not actually with current politics in historical fancy-dress . |
| 5 | Rule 10b-5 was sufficiently open-ended to embrace the misappropriation theory , since all that was required was fraud ‘ in connection with ’ the purchase or sale of securities , even if that fraud was not actually on the issuer of those securities but on some third party . |
| 6 | She had not thought to have Ariel set her whole spine on a splint , so when , after three months , Sycorax raised herself and found her weak legs and took a few steps , her whole weight slung against Ariel on one side and Jack Elsey on the other , she was bent like a hoop and could only shuffle forward , raising her head , like a turtle poking out of its shell , to address anyone who was not actually on the floor below her . |
| 7 | One important question remains unsettled , namely , whether there can be a conviction for assault on a constable when the constable is not actually on duty in the technical sense that he has reported for his shift at the requisite time . |
| 8 | Indeed , using archaeological and documentary evidence , it can be postulated that , in parts of west Somerset in particular , present-day settlements are the successors to prehistoric and Romano-British predecessors , even if not actually on the same site . |
| 9 | Although I 'm not actually on the Committee of the Bridgenorth Community Centre , I 'm obviously very closely connected with it , and as we 've previously spoken about Age Concern , it is our hope that another day centre for the elderly will be set up once that community centre is up and running , because there are a great deal of elderly in that particular area . |
| 10 | This method is used in France , though only as a party game , not actually for electing governments . |
| 11 | Before acting out as a late Father Christmas , I want to erm , come up with some general , how shall I put it , general considerations , this is why you have slides , you realise that slides are not actually for your benefit , they 're for my benefit , that I can remember where I am and what I 'm supposed to do . |
| 12 | that 's where they 're going cos he said they he 's not actually for the itself |
| 13 | My work has been mainly about the development of a sense of identity and of a sense of community , the development of relationships but not actually about sex . |
| 14 | Jane had never been to the aerodrome before — not actually past the guardroom and through the gates — and she had n't known what to expect that night . |
| 15 | There were also ‘ great swarms of idle servingmen ’ , whom he seems to have regarded as peripheral to ordered society , if not actually outside it , quoting a proverb , ‘ Young servingmen , old beggars ’ . |
| 16 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 17 | And she was unsure whether she wanted to become involved with them again ; the jewels were not actually worth that much , and the very fact that they were of Irish origin was enough to turn her away from them . |
| 18 | Indirect Rulers ranked self-respect above all the other blessings they could bestow , wealth , health , and the conveniences of modern life paling by comparison , if they were not actually to be regarded as injurious . |
| 19 | So you not it it 's do you say , you 're not actually against , you do n't mind er you you would n't mind them doing what they 're doing if they did it away from here . |
| 20 | It is now to be seen in a deserted spot , not actually by the river but not far from it , on high ground by a little-used minor road . |
| 21 | ‘ I can ask no more then ; but I can add one more thing : My heartfelt thanks in that you 're free , if not actually from the house , then from its clutch of women . ’ |
| 22 | Well just for the tape purposes I 'm not actually from Northumberland . |
| 23 | There is also clear evidence that the republicans were not actually in control of NICRA in the period up to and including the 5 October march . |
| 24 | Or if not actually in it , well on the way to it . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I 'm not actually in the college , but I 'm just beside it . |
| 26 | The Spittal camp was round another major bend of the river , the last one , and not actually in sight . |
| 27 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 28 | It was hard for the active trade unionist of the day to believe that W.P.Lind could combine the secretaryship of the London Seamen 's Protection Society with his role as Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London or that his organisation , with large numbers of members on its books but only a handful paying contributions , was not actually in the hands of the shipping interests . |
| 29 | They 're not actually in a conversation but we always do that sort of thing anyway . |
| 30 | Memet himself was not actually in the restaurant business , but his family was . |