Example sentences of "have actually [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Lawyers who think that judges should take a pragmatic attitude toward legal rights sometimes say the community has actually decided that they should , at least tacitly .
2 Charles has actually planned a route across the Martian south pole using photographs taken by the Viking and Mariner probes .
3 Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " .
4 The people of the tribe or village agree to them participating in their lives to some extent but there is no pretence that the lady from America has actually become a Polynesian native .
5 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 .
6 Bettelheim and Zelan ( 1982 ) demonstrate how vocabulary load in readers has actually diminished across the years : First readers in the 1920s contained on average 645 different words ; in the 1930s 460 , in the 1940s and 1950s 350 words .
7 Radio 4 could easily rename their show Just An Hour and put Merton on every week ( Just A Minute , tellingly , is the only show he has actually asked to be included on ) .
8 Yes , w well you said it And I think we are entitled to ask Mr whether he has actually asked the tenants for their views .
9 The language , though , is gratingly anachronistic — no one has actually said ‘ hopefully ’ yet , but I fear it is only a matter of time .
10 That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said .
11 M Mr Deputy Speaker , you will have seen if you read these er orders in front of us today running to at least er I reckon about ten thousand words , but by and large , all and sundry are going to be bote , er going to be out of vote on June the ninth , citizens of the European union and the minister has actually said on one or two occasions , all citizens of the union , well it is not true that all citizens of the union will be able to vote on er June the ninth .
12 In this respect they contrast with another set of objections , which point to ambiguities in the claims Althusser has actually made ; and one of the most pertinent of these concerns his account of ideology .
13 Only one state , Chile , has actually made a declaration under Article 16 .
14 They 've now , this government has actually made a , a fifty three year or a fifty four week year .
15 The actual show has actually made money .
16 are that this is transmitted throughout the world within minutes of being spoken so you have the monarchy which has tried to make itself populist , has actually made its language much more populist .
17 " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made .
18 In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted .
19 But as a result of other companies either closing down or reducing their workforce , employment in this area of industry has actually fallen .
20 Since demand has risen by a smaller amount than previously , investment has actually fallen .
21 I , I mean obviously I hope the decisions will go my way because Keith has actually argued in the past that we should disregard F E , because he says it 's , it 's impossible to fairly take account of that , and what he means is there 's no F E formulae in Northallerton , so he knows that if F E is excluded Northallerton will be at a major divan
22 Everybody is afraid of the phantom — but who has actually seen him ?
23 She had said , A man I 'm convinced has actually seen what my husband saw .
24 A further danger to avoid is agreeing in advance to disclose a particular medical report , or indeed any other sort of expert 's report , before one has actually seen it .
25 Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman on Treasury affairs has actually stated this as a belief —
26 with these posts as well , because it has actually stated we have employed an Environmental Officer .
27 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 .
28 But if a person with a roughly similar disability is socially isolated , or the home environment has actually precipitated or exacerbated the illness , then they will be gravely handicapped in attempting to return to normal life after a period in hospital .
29 cos he was thrown against the wall and hit a mole on his head or something and it caused a bruise and it has actually damaged his brain .
30 Indeed , it has actually done all these things and more — yet there is no internal , legal mechanism to resist such measures .
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