Example sentences of "[not/n't] actually [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likes of us we 've got a man behind us , but the likes of them I feel sorry for , they can not actually afford to be sick and that 's it . |
| 2 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 3 | One of Foucault 's most significant insights is that the controller at the centre of the panopticon does not actually need to be in the lantern for pacification of the surrounding inmates to take place . |
| 4 | He says that it is recorded in the that on the death of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan was authorized to give fetvas in the time of Murad II ; but that since he did not actually rise to the office of Mufti — the actual words used are " the rank of the glorious office of fetva " , fetva being used here , a — often , to indicate the Muftilik-he will not be singled out and accorded special mention . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Hyades , extending from the bright orange star Aldebaran in Taurus ( the Bull ) cover a much wider area than the Pleiades , and are also somewhat overpowered by Aldebaran , which does not actually belong to the cluster at all , but merely happens to lie about midway between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 7 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 8 | But erm the forty six is an artificial figure , it represents neither the capacity of the city nor the calculated needs , so I would not wish to er have this figure of forty six in our York plan because it does n't actually relate to either . |
| 9 | Yes , she is , she 's very nice but you do n't actually want to , if you 're on the , the touchline you do n't want to stand next to her . |
| 10 | Because very often on courses we find that people have been sort of nominated to go on courses , and quite honestly they do n't actually want to be there and they 're looking at their watch and as soon as they can get away that , that 's better . |
| 11 | who do n't actually go to school . |
| 12 | Poor she did n't actually go to the museum at all . |
| 13 | So he did n't actually speak to her — that 's what she told me anyway . ’ |
| 14 | He was anxious about making absolutely sure that another person was present in The Randolph at the lunch session with the American tourists ; and he learned quite unequivocally that this person was there , although he did n't actually speak to him . |
| 15 | We did n't actually speak to him but we did get an ‘ all right boys ? ’ as he went past . ’ |
| 16 | she , she used to go on about it and all this and I , I sort of fell out with her at one time , but did n't actually speak to her about it |
| 17 | it does n't actually extend to having all those numbers off the top of my head . |
| 18 | So if you look at something like Q P5 where you have got this point qualitated , in fact a lot of the points do n't actually apply to qualitated because many of the points relate to erm , D P erm , qualitative field as opposed to survey . |
| 19 | The er commission , the committees were able to take in special geographic considerations er but er they do n't actually apply to Cornwall . |
| 20 | Hell , I did n't actually agree to anything . |
| 21 | does n't actually seem to be a lot up there , are you sure we 've brought everything ? |
| 22 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |