Example sentences of "[conj] they actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most think they need far more than they actually do . |
| 2 | Despite the high trim-quality of each of these coupes , the sombre colours and black facia panels of their interiors make the cabins appear smaller than they actually are . |
| 3 | ‘ People do believe they are more attractive than they actually are , ’ said Dr Benson at a Science and Engineering Research Council conference at King 's College , London . |
| 4 | I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need . |
| 5 | There really is too much mystique attached to carp fishing , most it promoted by anglers who would like you to think that carp are much more difficult to catch than they actually are . |
| 6 | Again his drawing of Goody Bridge , Grasmere , ( Small Prints , 1814 ) has a footnote saying ‘ To improve the composition the stepping stones have been brought nearer the houses than they actually are . ’ |
| 7 | So here we are seeing exactly how the objects would look if our eyes were sensitive to wavelengths about five times longer than they actually detect . |
| 8 | But , according to Williams , this argument gives utilitarian methods greater prestige and a greater role in decision-making than they actually deserve . |
| 9 | If we had n't taken that cash out , that is , if borrowings had been £150m more than they actually were , we probably would n't have got those covenant changes and the whole group could have gone under . ’ |
| 10 | Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did . |
| 11 | This view assumes that people always want fewer babies than they actually have ( because of inefficient family planning ) . |
| 12 | Logically such constructions should make ethnic minorities feel even more powerless than they actually are . |
| 13 | As for the Fourth Estate , journalists think they are more important than they actually are . |
| 14 | Just as significantly , when assessed by an independent panel of judges , most subjects appeared facially far older than they actually were . |
| 15 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 16 | They 're brilliant at implying more than they actually say . |
| 17 | It is characteristic of decision-making that obstacles always tend to seem more real than they actually turn out to be . |
| 18 | … the pupils are remarkably honest about their reactions , if anything they tend to be rather hard on themselves in their criticism of their own work , but they very , very rarely pretend that it 's better than , or more successful than they actually feel it is . |
| 19 | Of course , prices may appear to be more sticky than they actually are , for there are many ways of changing the ‘ price ’ of a good without changing the amount of ‘ s printed on the good 's label . |
| 20 | On foot , she realised that the astonishing light made things seem much closer than they actually were . |
| 21 | Although there 's some , but these sort of pictures they always look darker than they actually are because you can see the sun is still pretty high up , so , I imagine that the surrounding scene was still in quite sunlight , but , looking straight into the sun , as we are here , albeit behind the clouds |
| 22 | A NORTH-EAST company was fined a total of £1,300 with £582 costs for claiming its products contained more meat than they actually did . |
| 23 | He said they used a map with incorrect information on it to suggest that travel times by road in the vast region were greater than they actually were . |
| 24 | Whereas in actual fact if they come in very nicely and ask very nicely , they might have got more than they actually got here when they came in shouting and yelling . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be that those involved in the sale of gilt options did not realise that they actually increased the risk to which the council was exposed rather than reducing it . ’ |
| 26 | Although the government placed ‘ the political and economic backbone of the Republic in heavy industry and in transport ’ , Trotsky observed at the Twelfth Party Congress that they actually formed the rearguard . |
| 27 | Paul Korshin argues , on the other hand , that very few writers could have been supported by patronage to such an extent that they actually lost their independence . |
| 28 | Another reason for the non-reporting of crime is that many victims are unaware that they actually are victims of specific crimes . |
| 29 | And we must all agree with George when he states that in future the pill pedlars will not only have to show that their nostrums work , ‘ but also that they actually bring benefits in social and economic as well as in purely medical terms ’ . |
| 30 | Bankruptcy stared the Nazis in the face , and for a while they were so desperate that they actually considered introducing the zloty as a way of stabilising the currency and restoring calm . |