Example sentences of "[vb mod] actually [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards .
2 It should actually have a clip so that you stick it in your inside pocket
3 Erm , I 've been thinking that I ca n't chair this meeting and take the notes and things when it becomes , and if it , the fund comes through and it becomes the audio description project as opposed to this group , and you know we will be widening out a little bit , I wonder if we should actually have a chairman type person .
4 Well I think we 'll actually do a bit of a debrief , yeah ? we should be finished .
5 And then hopefully you 'll actually get a lot better .
6 I realized that I might actually have a sin .
7 You never know , in the blissful silence of your train , your brain might actually comprehend a clue in the Mephisto crossword .
8 So that I would n't get involved with careers officers I 'd actually make a jump and that I would do the three wise monkeys and Hilary .
9 Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something
10 I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people .
11 So here we 'd actually have a match of all three saying that we 've recognized it to a level three .
12 I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards .
13 I remember housing studies , for example , was one of the crunch points as to whether you could actually make a degree out of something of that kind .
14 Now talking of freebies , they could actually watch a cage being drilled for them as part of it .
15 How you could actually achieve a distribution .
16 He got so good at it he could actually produce a thought-bubble !
17 If you stop them , you 'll be fine initially but there 's a fair chance you could actually get a lot worse without them .
18 He was not restricted to making an order of damages , but could actually order a defendant who had been condemned to perform what he had failed to do .
19 Thus , if the whole internal process were slowed down enormously , one could actually see a representation of each command executed by the machine at the lowest possible level of representation .
20 I know it sounds crazy , but even as I watched this little boy , Jimbo , I thought I could actually see a muscle quiver .
21 I mean , to die is not absolutely correct there is it , because I mean you could actually have a pay-out on critical illness , which happens earlier .
22 But you could actually put a bag all the way and tie it into tie it into er the it 's the Skillery Bridge that one .
23 When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men .
24 There are times when we need to ask ourselves if our use would actually justify a purchase , or might it be better to rent it ?
25 Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area .
26 So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 .
27 This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms .
28 However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 .
29 I hope this little titbit of news about the crews that were formed and especially the ones of Rivetus because that is what you 're writing about , since he was the only one back from the Hundredth Bomb Group but how well we knew him in training since the two crews trained together and of course the flying part of it and myself have coordinated our flying with our co-pilots , we used to , just the two of us go up , and we would actually fly a circle around one plane over another , so one plane was and the other plane would fly circles around it and keeping up with it and this calls for close teamwork between the pilot and the co-pilot because as you 're keen and went into view and and then of course we switched roles and I would become the leader and he 'd fly circles around me , training with his co-pilot .
30 Er the only thing that I have not handed you is the Labour resolution which er twice mentions demands now although I 'm supporting this strong report here , I think it 's a mistake to demand things , it is , it does n't put people in a very good frame of mind to coax them but and I would ask the er Miss who I think we 're going to vote for this , whether she would consider changing to request , because I think we going to the situation where we make it known to the Department of Transport that we 're a string of such like , we do n't to upset them any more , I think that we requested that we answer is we would actually get a result in one .
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