Example sentences of "[is] actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 2 | For all his standard procedures , I do n't think he is actually imitating anybody . |
| 3 | This thing here , which looks like a wooden club , is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung , like a dance floor . |
| 4 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 5 | It is actually entitled Speke , Porot and contains the following significant variants of the first three stanzas : |
| 6 | There is actually a television room as well , I think , but if you do want to keep yourself to yourself that 's fine . |
| 7 | We always tell folk to watch out for clubroot , because the wallflower is actually a member of the cabbage family . |
| 8 | It is actually quite difficult to range on a moving target , and sprained wrists have been caused through lack of skill in this respect . |
| 9 | Notice that in this example of the foot sweep , the opponent 's ankle is actually struck with the flat of your foot and is knocked , rather than drawn , to one side . |
| 10 | The basic theme of this chapter will be that the success of cognitive neuropsychology provides strong grounds for believing that functionalism , or something very close to it , is actually true . |
| 11 | This is important for the biologizing of consciousness : consciousness will evolve only if it improves the survival chances of creatures endowed with it ; and it will have survival value only if it accurately reports what is actually ‘ there ’ . |
| 12 | If perception has to be triggered off by what is actually there , then it is constrained to be true . |
| 13 | One red box is actually the entrance to the bar . |
| 14 | There is actually no hard and fast rule with size of handle to size of cutlery blank , but depends on the design and shape you require — I often look around shops for ideas and take my tape measure and notebook to jot measurements and ideas down . |
| 15 | Management where the job is actually being done may show the way forward in other ways , though the granting of extra power to Cornish Railways was a short-lived experiment . |
| 16 | The illustration of double ropes being used to protect a second on a traverse is incorrect ; the drawing of a double-fisherman 's knot is actually of a single-fisherman 's ; the section on rigging anchors seems very sketchy with no consideration of using the rope to equally load them , rather than slings ; different types of shunt are discussed for self-protection on abseils but there is no mention of the cheap , simple prussik knot as an alternative , or the even more effective French prussik linking the controlling rope to the leg-loop of the harness . |
| 17 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
| 18 | To repeat the calculation for another tolerance set ( will a cheap 1% E24 series value give a close enough fit ? ) , just type T and select from the E12 , 24 , 48 or 96 series , listed under their US aliases , eg 0.1% MIL is E96 , and 5% alternative commercial is actually 1% E24 . |
| 19 | My concern is with the nature of his reputation , and the striking extent to which both his admirers and his detractors are unable to agree on what kind of writer Derrida is , or even what he is actually saying . |
| 20 | In this context , what goes on outside , what is actually written by poets and novelists , is of minor interest . |
| 21 | Seen from this point of view , the battle itself is actually irrelevant to Shakespeare 's purpose . |
| 22 | Much of Mr Lenarduzzi 's material for the meeting , designed to clarify the national curriculum , relied on inference because , as yet , only maths and science is actually taught under the guidelines issued by the Department of Education and Science , and nobody knows how attainment testing will work . |
| 23 | An entertained audience is actually there and listening : a bored one has usually gone to dinner . |
| 24 | The submarine work is actually part of a much larger contract that we have with Israel to build three Corvettes for them , worth $300m ( £187m ) , at the Ingalls yards in Mississippi . |
| 25 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |
| 26 | ‘ From the vendor 's point of view , the house is actually sold once a successful bid is made , ’ says Graham Harrison , director of Bristol and West Property Services . |
| 27 | Duval agrees : ‘ For me the real issue is programme choice , in the sense of what is actually scheduled . |
| 28 | Officially described as Fibresand ( a composite of silica sand reinforced with rot-proof synthetic fibres ) , which is used widely for exercise gallops , the Southwell track is actually a mixture of Fibresand , rubber particles and polymer . |
| 29 | Indeed they must be pleased by the traces of evidence that suggest that bias in a freely chosen medium such as a newspaper is actually popular with the electorate rather than resented . |
| 30 | However , according to locals , there is actually more of a risk from the conventional pollutants that are pumped into the sea than from the power station , and this stopped people swimming in it . |