Example sentences of "have actually " in BNC.

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1 The acting profession has actually grown smaller since , say , 1900 .
2 He has actually been to the actual America — and come back .
3 Professor Akira Fujiwara , an acknowledged expert on the Rape of Nanking who was called as one of the witnesses in the case , said that ‘ in spite of the government 's promise to correct bias in history textbooks , the screening system has actually got worse since the 1982 diplomatic protests .
4 He said : ‘ I do n't know of any government that has actually falsified figures .
5 Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art .
6 The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life .
7 If you 've been pretty dominant in a company I do n't think you know when that time has actually arrived .
8 In this matter of the nature of the gens ( descent group ) further research has actually proved both sides of the controversy right .
9 The Chancellor may decide to encourage greater use of diesel : however , he has only limited scope for any price differentiation between DERV and petrol , for since December diesel has actually been 10 pence per gallon more expensive than unleaded petrol .
10 In football , rugby , or cricket the ability to stop the frame at the crucial moment or play-back a sequence , which has come recently with the development of video , has actually placed the viewer and the commentator in a better position to make a decision than the unfortunate referee or umpire .
11 When the gloom lifts , Hungary 's famous pessimists will be surprised to discover how much has actually been going right .
12 On this basis , inflation stands at more than 7% ( at an annual rate ) and has actually crept up since January ( see chart ) .
13 A man is not punishable for a serious crime committed by another unless he has actually instigated the commission of a crime , and then he will be punishable though the crime committed may differ in some degree from that which he instigated .
14 In such cases the employer is not liable in general for any wrong which consists in the improper carrying out of such work , though he will , of course , be liable if unlawful acts are done which he has actually authorized .
15 He has actually lived in Tribeca for ten years now .
16 Often the survivors need proof that the person they love has actually died .
17 There are , of course , civil and legal reasons for this , but it also serves the purpose of confirming to the person that their relative has actually died because they have seen it for themselves , the proof is before them .
18 Yet Labour leads the Tories in most polls and the only party to make significant gains during the campaign — the Liberal Democrats — has actually promised to increase the standard tax rate .
19 The language , though , is gratingly anachronistic — no one has actually said ‘ hopefully ’ yet , but I fear it is only a matter of time .
20 Yet , now that a man has actually come , I realise that my hopes were too simple .
21 So poor has been the overall AGR performance , in fact , that it has actually resulted in a fall in the proportion of nuclear electricity produced on the CEGB system .
22 Moreover , the creation of political boundaries in the Sahelian countries during colonial and post-colonial times has actually contributed to the disruption of a carefully regulated system of pastoral movements and pastoral-agricultural symbiosis , leading to environmental deterioration and desertification ( Franke & Chasin 1980 : Ch.3 & p.98 ) .
23 Efforts to reduce stocking densities have met with little success due to the significance of cattle as a source of wealth and prestige rather than a source of income ( IBRD 1977a ; Doran , Low & Kemp 1979 ) , so that herd size has actually increased between 1968–77 in spite of government efforts to reduce it ( this being discussed further in Ch. 7 ) .
24 All they want is to read Ellen 's endless journal once our friend in there has actually managed to bring it to the light of day .
25 Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards .
26 Admittedly , nobody has actually studied the genetics of caddis houses .
27 It is not surprising , therefore , that the main thrust of the anti timber-frame publicity has concentrated more on what could happen , rather than on what has actually happened .
28 But such examinations must be adapted not only to the past ( what the candidate has actually learned at school ) but to the future ( what he will have to learn , understand , and be able to do next ) .
29 On the other hand consumption of petrol has actually increased .
30 The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women .
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