Example sentences of "actually [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of building-society interest actually received is regarded as what is left after tax at the basic rate has been deducted from a larger amount . |
| 2 | Though like all market-place democracy , you do have the feeling that what you 're actually seeing is an impressive piece of set-building , that the real action lies below the surface , in some place where entry is rather more restricted . |
| 3 | The role it actually plays is that of an exclamation , or a signal to another person that he can now expect me to , say , continue a series according to a formula . |
| 4 | The physical benefit is implicit in everything , but hardly explicit at all , and the benefit actually communicated is emotional . |
| 5 | Similarly it is soon accepted that the ‘ ostrich ’ theory of closing one 's eyes and assuming that thereby either oneself or things in the environment will actually disappear is not tenable . |
| 6 | Er what I actually mean is whenever you have an idiom , you can substitute in the position of a whole sentence or of a verb phrase , but you ca n't substitute it for a subject and a verb , leaving the object of the sentence intact . |
| 7 | What we actually mean is a sort of mini manifesto introduction to the Green Party booklet sixteen pages or so . |
| 8 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 9 | Therefore , if the assumption that the speaker is actually cooperating is to be preserved , some informative inference must be made . |
| 10 | However , the degree to which this is actually happening is minimal . |
| 11 | What is actually happening is that natural selection does not select for fitness understood as health and er individual health er and wellbeing , athletic ability and so on . |
| 12 | What is actually happening is that you also get a high tide on the other side of the globe as well like that . |
| 13 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 14 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 15 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 16 | If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ . |
| 17 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
| 18 | All we 've actually done is to say , right |
| 19 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 20 | What the doctrine actually achieves is a middle way of a rather different type to that which may have originally been conceived . |
| 21 | We know however that what actually happens is that the anxiety only ever reaches a certain level and then levels off , forming a plateau . |
| 22 | What actually happens is that the fish eat the tiny algae spores on the margins of the leaves . |
| 23 | What actually happens is that Carol answers her own question — in London English , with " don " remember when it was " . |
| 24 | If you are curious about the bombardier beetle , by the way , what actually happens is as follows . |
| 25 | And what actually happens is , there 's a description of it in there , and I 'm going to give you some more literature for you to peruse and get used to it , and you 'll actually going to be working very closely with your management on this , right , is that you will record all your activity every week . |
| 26 | Any policy delivery visits , number of referrals , total daily approaches at the top , and then what actually happens is , is you complete this , and every , this branch what they do , the people that do it , every Monday morning , they all come in here and have training sessions , and then there 's computers around the branch . |
| 27 | And I think that 's a very good point , because you 're actually i the what you 've actually said is , You 're entitled to training to enable you to do you job competently . |
| 28 | What we actually put is , er , it is the responsibility in the conditions of carriage . |
| 29 | and people like that , but er , I believe that the , the way it 's actually organized is different . |
| 30 | The type of policy we 're actually seeking is already included in the Humberside structure plan and I see this morning that er that was circulated as D four double O seven . |