Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] actually [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at the end of the day the , we were not successful in the bid to retain Oswestry town within the R D A , but I think we will be able to define the boundaries of Oswestry town , and count , count the unemployment then , and it should n't actually create a problem in that area . |
| 2 | Th er I have n't actually Yeah I 'll bring you some headed notepaper but you should n't actually need it except if people want This person is doing this on behalf of . |
| 3 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 4 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 5 | We may not actually continue escalating the physical side of our relationship , but each level of intimacy brings a more intense motivation to advance . |
| 6 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 7 | The access road , however , may not actually reach the boundary of the site and the original developer may have retained a strip as narrow as 1 m . |
| 8 | Peacock ( 1974 ) suggests that the appropriate view is that the current generation is choosing to sacrifice current consumption to internalize its concern for future generations and therefore can be legitimately viewed as gaining from capital expenditure the fruits of which they may not actually sample . |
| 9 | As would be expected , such a use would not be possible with make , since the law would appear to be actually bringing about the paying of taxes ( " concurrent causation " ) : ( 166 ) * The law makes everyone pay his taxes , With oblige , on the other hand , the tax law is depicted as simply imposing a state of obligation in the present , which leaves the future actualization of paying taxes up to each individual , who may or may not actually pay them . |
| 10 | They may not actually put the tenor clef in till grade grade five now I come to think about that . |
| 11 | It may not actually lie in the water , but it still lies within the boundary of the lateral water hazard . |
| 12 | The opponent may move in and strike with a roundhouse kick to the head and the first-time fighter may not actually see it coming . |
| 13 | And like the performance of the liturgy , the audience may not actually hear everything that is being declaimed . |
| 14 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 15 | The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 16 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 17 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 18 | That is , conduct may be within the sight or hearing of another , even though the other may not actually have heard it . |
| 19 | Well , we , we may not actually need to go to the P W L B for money , because of the , because of the grant , we may actually get a hundred percent grant aid for this , and if we get a hundred perce hundred percent grant aid , we wo n't need to . |
| 20 | This 4-tuple I' of coordinates in the TV images may not actually correspond to any real point in the 3-dimensional space of possible positions for the torch , but that does not matter . |
| 21 | Well I 'll have to get hold of your address and I 'll send you a birthday card but I might not actually send you a real birthday card , I 'll probably send you like a piece of paper saying happy birthday or something . |
| 22 | So strong was her need to talk to Simon , that it never occurred to her that he might not actually live there . |
| 23 | And when you can see the moon the water that 's rushing along trying to catch up with it might not actually have been there yet . |
| 24 | It was an existence conducted as if in poverty , but my adoptive parents could not actually have been poor ; still , it was ruled by insistences on not wasting , on eating everything up , on being grateful , on saving light and water . |
| 25 | In fact , no offence had been committed , so that the assistance sought could not actually have impeded the police . |
| 26 | Given the bulk of the Emperor and the weight of its weaponry , it could not actually run , yet it could certainly lumber forward more quickly . |
| 27 | Erm , and also the reason why Wilson could not actually read until the age of eleven was not due to the emotional er , problems of his father , it was due to a sort of a form of dyslexic er , th there 's a hell of a lot of debate about this , er , all these things just what er , Einstein is er , criticizing . |
| 28 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 29 | I suspect it was ‘ I hate him ’ , and that I could n't actually bring myself to face such a sentiment . |
| 30 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |