Example sentences of "do [is] actually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other thing , which I think is a , another great misconception is er our present Prime Ministers ' policy of having a classless society , well I think the first thing is you could do is actually abolish the House of Lords and that will certainly be a start on having a classless society in this country . |
| 2 | Now if you think you know what building or place is , put your hand up , but I think what we 'll do is actually let him get to the end of his description first . |
| 3 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 4 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 5 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |
| 6 | Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that . |
| 7 | Yes , I think as adults one thing we have to do is actually trust the wisdom of our children to let us know , to give us the cues to when they need to talk or express their fears in some way erm I mean that 's our duty not to stop them talking , not to stop them asking questions , but to be aware of when they may have fears . |
| 8 | Right now well all I , I ex I knew that you were having meetings about it so really all , all I need you to do is actually get this validated by your group and if there were any change significant changes you wanted to make then to come back to me and David with that those suggestions but erm it struck me that th the thing hangs together quite well . |
| 9 | What we 've got to do is actually make them respect us . |
| 10 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 11 | Well I think it 's best to , yeah yeah , I mean o the best thing to do is actually lift it up and use a little bit of the underneath to try out the colours what colour 's that going to be ? |
| 12 | Now in fact that 's not what we like our stewards to do , what we like our stewards to do is actually to help people to enjoy themselves , to help people to erm to enjoy the house and to sit on things and and and actually say , no please sit down on that if you like to , it 's perfectly alright , that 's what it 's for . |
| 13 | Okay what I 'd like to do is get you to work in three syndicates looking at body language , voice tone , words , proximity , attitude , voice volume but what we 'd like to do is actually work in a syndicate that is out of style , out of keeping in your normal style . |
| 14 | But what you have to do is actually realize that Jesus died for you you have to be sorry for all the things that you 've done wrong and you need to ask him to come into your life and to be your own saviour . |
| 15 | What you 've got to do is actually have some understanding of the needs of a of particular newspapers , radio programmes , television programmes , by studying , look at it , see what it who 's it for , what language do they use , how do they phrase things , what 's their format , and then you can get yourself in the position where you can say , ‘ I can do something like that , I can produce something like that . ’ |
| 16 | What we may have to do is actually balance the air conditioning 's needs up to suit the building , if you like , rather than individuals concerned , and then we 'll have to address the individuals concerns the same , in terms of moving the desk , or moving the person if they 're in a draft . |
| 17 | Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it . |
| 18 | What they 're doing is actually going a lot further , and supply us all the their ac accounts and details , and they 've actually sort of called it a grant for partial costs of materials , right , so we 're actually |