Example sentences of "[not/n't] actually have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Tixier-Vignancour did not actually have any questions to ask him he decided to bluff it out to the end . |
| 2 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 3 | We do not actually have in this supposed counter-example to transitivity what we must have , statements of the forms if P then Q , If Q then R , and If P then R. ( Mackie , 1980 ) Certainly , whatever is to be said of transitivity elsewhere , dependent nomic conditionals are transitive . |
| 4 | It was an existence conducted as if in poverty , but my adoptive parents could not actually have been poor ; still , it was ruled by insistences on not wasting , on eating everything up , on being grateful , on saving light and water . |
| 5 | That is , conduct may be within the sight or hearing of another , even though the other may not actually have heard it . |
| 6 | In fact , no offence had been committed , so that the assistance sought could not actually have impeded the police . |
| 7 | However , the actual time taken to cover a kilometre will almost certainly have varied substantially between road types , thus it is possible that their subjects did not actually have more to report in the shopping areas . |
| 8 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 9 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 10 | And when you can see the moon the water that 's rushing along trying to catch up with it might not actually have been there yet . |
| 11 | He did n't actually have to run his finger along the line in order to make sense of it , but he did like to mouth the words as he got to them . |
| 12 | Perhaps Caroline did n't actually have a business manager , but had found that the mention of one proved effective . |
| 13 | It does n't actually have to tell me that I am ‘ earthed ’ but it does remind me that I am . |
| 14 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 15 | My hair is really short so I do n't actually have to style it but it did feel better and I would use this conditioner again . ’ |
| 16 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 17 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't actually have to live there while I 'm writing it . ’ |
| 19 | So , if you 've got a mouse you could actually help speed up a lot of this editing but , I said , I 've not written in the mouse commands into this schedule because we did n't actually have mice on all work stations when this was written . |
| 20 | Right , not very complicated , mum , dad , right mum and dad have got a normal gene and a P K U gene , right , normal gene and P K U gene which means that they are carriers , they carry the disease but they do n't actually have it |
| 21 | Well , as far as one is concerned with the A Nineteen , er is n't it fair to say that the northern and western boundaries are so er constructed with hedges and trees that in fact while er er one is travelling along the A Nineteen one does n't actually have any meaningful view of the conservation area in any event ? |
| 22 | Be very careful that y you do n't actually have to use the split that Roger 's using . |
| 23 | You wo n't actually have to pay it out . |
| 24 | That 's a thing about stories , sometimes ; they have different endings according to who you listen to , and some have sort of open endings , and some do n't actually have proper endings yet . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ it turns out that Mishkin does n't actually have any money himself . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , you do n't actually have to do it , ’ said Johnny cheerfully . |
| 27 | Washing food does n't actually have much effect on residue levels ( though it 's important for removing dirt and bacteria ) but peeling and removing the outer leaves of foods like cabbages and lettuce reduces residue levels significantly . |
| 28 | But a lot of the training does n't actually have a definite something that 's sort of a number because it 's actually getting people to do the work that they 're already doing in a slightly better way or to feel more confident |
| 29 | You do n't actually have to know there 's a caravan , it 's quite obvious when you 've had one move it away . |
| 30 | " It does n't actually have to go wrong . |