Example sentences of "not actually [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 2 | Matthew does not actually record the birth of Jesus . |
| 3 | Although this does not actually prohibit the possession of weapons whose use is illegal , it is clearly moving in that direction . |
| 4 | Well admit I I can not actually bring an evidence at this point in time to support that er , that er er assertion . |
| 5 | Erm , therefore we , to all intents and purposes , can not actually control the demand at that level , demand will be set by the people committing themselves to the health service , where the health service are assessing their needs , and saying this patient needs nursing home care . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Delays in handling the spillage and the stricken vessel caused the movement of the slick , but it became clear by Jan. 11 that the slick would not actually reach the coastline , largely because of the strength and direction of the prevailing sea currents , and because of the light quality of the oil ( Arabian Light ) . |
| 8 | In this similarity pattern the fish must maintain a constant bearing with respect to the pole and therefore can not actually reach the pole in any finite number of orbits . |
| 9 | As we are about to see , Darwin 's use of Herbert Spencer 's resounding phrase ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , does not actually represent the nature of the process adequately and over-emphasizes part of it . |
| 10 | After all , he does not actually seek the result to which the polls have been pointing since the election campaign began . |
| 11 | Since the lace carriage does not actually knit the stitches , it needs a place to ‘ rest ’ while not in operation . |
| 12 | This makes the figure identical to the ‘ lazy eight ’ where the nose of the model does not actually cross the pilot 's eye line . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Stickley & Kent , one of the UK 's biggest repossession auctioneers said : ‘ We sold a couple of flats last month for Pounds 5,000 , but by and large anyone buying a repossessed home does not actually get a bargain . |
| 16 | Now at the moment I have decided that some things like suggestions erm , will not actually get an audit before the external audit by erm , B S I . |
| 17 | Eric of Mallion was the first champion to be born in this country , but not the first to gain this title because he did not actually become a champion until he was seven years old . |
| 18 | He did not actually touch the substance , but , in the absence of adequate safety measures , he was likely to inhale microparticles . |
| 19 | Even if sociologists do not actually provide a solution themselves , their data are often used in the formulation of policy by others . |
| 20 | Do not actually provide the protection that people think . |
| 21 | What was interesting in this study was that subjects ' eye movements showed that they looked longer and more frequently at syntactic errors even when they did not actually report the errors . |
| 22 | According to the Israelis , when Shamir saw Bush in Washington he was able to get , as the price for no pre-emptive attack on Iraq , a promise that the US would not actually support a conference on the Middle East when the war was over . |
| 23 | Misunderstandings about the nature of the recordings contributed to some confusion in the early 1960s about whether the eye movements of dreaming sleep did or did not actually follow the action of the dream . |
| 24 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 25 | If one does not raise more money from the top bands , one does not actually help the people in the lower bands . |
| 26 | As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult . |
| 27 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 28 | Never mind that Prime Ministers do not actually own the Elgin marbles . |
| 29 | ( 8 ) This enquiry refers to the rights of those who do not actually own the property but who may , for example , occupy it . |
| 30 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |