Example sentences of "[that] it actually [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Step 2 Pinpoint the behaviour so that it actually describes actions that people do , and which could , if necessary , be quantified in some way .
2 In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain .
3 Such a flare coming off the earth that it actually hurts my retina .
4 And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists .
5 I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates .
6 The best hope of course is that the rates which the government has chosen to go in at will be sustainable , that the government will be able to combine cuts with interest rates , cuts in interest rates , with the needs of the economy and the constraints of the European Monetary System , so that it actually gets a downward path of interest rates at the rate which the economy needs , without provoking a sterling crisis which would push sterling to the bottom of its permitted rates , and produce a crisis of erm of confidence needing higher interest rates .
7 did you ever have a desire of er a wall bracket where you did n't have to chase in the flex that it actually ran up from er a socket in the wall ?
8 As the Royals have learned to their cost the law is so lax that it actually encourages widespread snooping .
9 When they changed the deep litter did it erm I 've heard folks say that it actually affected the hens that they that they went cannibal and
10 They can either be forced , or they can be ‘ deluded ’ into thinking that it actually serves their own ends .
11 Migrat if migration is a problem I think you will all agree that it actually hampers the development process , what should we , what should we do ?
12 And what it actually means if you see them like that it actually means that there are two beats in a bar and they 're dotted beats
13 ECGD would like to point out that it actually has no ‘ official inspectors ’ , as quoted in the article , who arrange the recovery of goods in cases of buyer default .
14 While the fact that a phenomenon was perceived allows one to infer and assert that it actually occurred , the converse is not true : the fact that it was not perceived does not mean that it did not take place .
15 The United States could , and did , also claim that it actually required a greater surplus than this so that it could begin to chip away at the huge ‘ overhang ’ of dollar liabilities with a view to restoring convertibility of the dollar to the SDR ( special drawing rights ) once confidence had been restored .
16 The other is that it actually fosters in you in-built critical faculties , so you can actually edit and shape your work as you go along , having been taught by the master — the masters of literature — not just the professors , the great writers . ’
17 I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country .
18 Patchouli is unusual in that it actually improves with age , and a twenty-year-old oil will be extremely mellow and fragrant .
19 I do n't think that it actually needs to be geographically located .
20 The reason IntelliDraw is so novel is that it actually tries to help you draw .
21 It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair .
22 So what is the evidence that it actually exists ?
23 But if such a retort is both meaningful and non-trivial , then surely so is the statement ( that might be made , for example , in reply to a request for information from a third person ) that " the chair " being talked about — the " posited chair " — is not fictional , i.e. that it actually exists , even though those who take this statement on trust might find out otherwise to their cost .
24 Might it be also true of Jackson 's work that its formalism is so relentless that it actually reveals itself as questioning the parameters within which it operates ?
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