Example sentences of "[modal v] not actually " in BNC.
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| 1 | ought really to be one parent in a two-parent family but must not actually be permitted to starve if she falls short of this ideal ; |
| 2 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 3 | It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned . |
| 4 | Th er I have n't actually Yeah I 'll bring you some headed notepaper but you should n't actually need it except if people want This person is doing this on behalf of . |
| 5 | Now at the end of the day the , we were not successful in the bid to retain Oswestry town within the R D A , but I think we will be able to define the boundaries of Oswestry town , and count , count the unemployment then , and it should n't actually create a problem in that area . |
| 6 | no we should n't actually who him ? |
| 7 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 8 | What Mrs Finni may feel is the answer may not actually be the answer . |
| 9 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |
| 10 | Just as a material body may or may not actually be moving , so a mind may or may not actually be thinking . |
| 11 | This model contains many assumptions and difficulties and may not actually be correct ; but this reflects practical problems in the application of the method rather than theoretical flaws in the validity of the approach . |
| 12 | And you begin to say things that do n't make any sense to people who do n't know what 's going on between you , but you know that the other person , to whom what you 've said is really addressed will know what you mean , even though he may not actually be there . |
| 13 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 14 | We may not actually continue escalating the physical side of our relationship , but each level of intimacy brings a more intense motivation to advance . |
| 15 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 16 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 17 | Maybe your children will do it or your parents , your partner or your friends , and these choices may not actually be what you wanted . |
| 18 | Outer observation is inherently fallible : one may not actually be perceiving what one thinks one is perceiving . |
| 19 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 20 | The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 21 | Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer . |
| 22 | The attitude-holder , in expressing the attitude , may not actually be engaged in face-to-face debate , for what matters is the general context of controversy , not the specific interpersonal context . |
| 23 | It 's celebrated in the schools with er , my school children always acknowledge it , so it may not actually be celebrated within the family as such , but it 's certainly acknowledged . |
| 24 | This 4-tuple I' of coordinates in the TV images may not actually correspond to any real point in the 3-dimensional space of possible positions for the torch , but that does not matter . |
| 25 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 26 | The access road , however , may not actually reach the boundary of the site and the original developer may have retained a strip as narrow as 1 m . |
| 27 | It may not actually lie in the water , but it still lies within the boundary of the lateral water hazard . |
| 28 | They may not actually put the tenor clef in till grade grade five now I come to think about that . |
| 29 | The opponent may move in and strike with a roundhouse kick to the head and the first-time fighter may not actually see it coming . |
| 30 | That is , conduct may be within the sight or hearing of another , even though the other may not actually have heard it . |