Example sentences of "on what [pron] actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadow budget 's tax bands gave Labour the look of punitive vindictiveness : it drew the line where , realistically , it reckoned people could afford it , forgetting that in post-Thatcher Britain , people calculate their tax liabilities not on what they actually earn , but how much they hope , desire or aspire to earn in the very near future . |
| 2 | Does not this necessitate a definition which is based on neither lawyers ' rhetoric nor a reaction to it but on what they actually do ? |
| 3 | For a start , there is no clear agreement on what it actually means , with some people putting the emphasis on the first part of the oxymoron , and some on the second . |
| 4 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 5 | But it , it would depend on what you actually do every month . |