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

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1 So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway .
2 ‘ Peaks ’ is actually to give the wrong impression , anywhere else they would be no more than hills ; but on Amantani they give a commanding view of Lake Titicaca and make you feel as if you 're on top of the world .
3 Quote For The Day is actually composed of five files .
4 The CCD is actually composed of thousands of light sensitive elements ( pixels ) laid out in a grid pattern — 1,542 horizontally by 1,012 vertically .
5 People asked to imagine they are riding a bicycle have brain waves similar to those generated by a person who is actually riding a bicycle .
6 erm , but , it , it does come to a question of fact and of course we do n't know what was in the notification , what information the er , the market administrator 's , supervisors , er gave to the commission about the market and the market shares , er very little is actually stated in the
7 The EQ is actually calculated in a somewhat complicated way , taking logarithms of brain weight and body weight , and standardizing against the average figures for a major group such as the mammals as a whole .
8 Thus it is clear that " true " or " false " neither add nor detract from what is actually asserted on a given occasion .
9 It allows for gentle but shrewd mockery of Ruritania , most of all when Tommy Norreys , mistaken for Lord Norheys , is actually crowned King of Lystria .
10 Alternate adjustments in this way bring points B , D and E to earth potential although only E is actually connected to earth .
11 It 's alright , part of my job is actually monitoring the managers what they do as well , so that they 're doing what they should be doing , which is fair enough is n't it ?
12 In such circumstances it is not surprising that the State is actually worshipped either in the person of a ruler or in a god which it incarnates .
13 His lyrics are abysmal tosh , his singing voice so stunted , adenoidal and gumby that it takes a real effort of will to remember that this is n't a joke , that this man is actually worshipped as a rock god by literally millions of depressed , terminally adolescent would-be heroin addicts worldwide .
14 A conference may be convened before a child is actually born if there is sufficient concern about future risk .
15 Empirically , an immediate problem arises from the fact that ( 7 ) uses ex ante expectations of relative returns although only the ex post outturn is actually observed .
16 Ironically , now we 're probably moving into a new era where sunshine is actually seen as something harmful giving things like skin cancer , er certainly in the Australia market it 's the case at the moment .
17 For example , if one reads bread and , the logogen for butter will receive some input ( collect some evidence ) from the cognitive system even before the word butter is actually seen .
18 Although the clothes and adornments shed through the striptease are signifiers of luxury , legend or romance , their erotic significance is actually separated from the woman :
19 What is even more remarkable against this background is that modern science has now not only taken an interest in the mystical art of the Zodiac , but is actually trying to prove that a person 's stars do have an effect .
20 The point is not whether some places , or even some regions and countries should be , or could still be , protected from disruption by change , but whether this is what modern political xenophobia is actually trying to do .
21 Yeah well I , I think er of more value would be just to people here present going away , and between now and the seminar on the eighth or ninth is actually trying to get the negatives .
22 As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance
23 He or she is actually trying to exercise power over nurse or mother .
24 It currently has a service within the Fire Service wh which costs a certain amount and we ca n't presume and I would , I suspect that Councillor is is actually trying to do is to get in by the back door for cut that we will then be forced to make the March March March Committee well I hope that members of this at this this this Committee would reject that er suggestion as it at the last meeting .
25 Yeah , mm , yeah so erm I think mm yeah I think , I think with something like this , with questionnaires really the , the , the acid test is actually trying to administer them and then you see the problems very often
26 You see , he 's not just asking them a question for the sake of it , he is actually trying to teach these , these blind folks , er er , these , these blind men , er er er some spiritual truth .
27 Well known as riff-writer extraordinaire and with a seemingly bottomless pit of catchy songs to draw from , Canadian Adams confides that his approach to songwriting and guitar playing is actually based upon a formula .
28 But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the
29 What I 'd like to introduce lastly now is an approach that you can take to training to help yourselves and to help make it more effective and more systematic and what I 'd like to introduce to you is , is something called the training cycle and the rest of the course is actually based around the training cycle and I know Margaret you 've actually seen the training cycle a few weeks ago , I 'm not sure if , if any of the others are , any of the others familiar ?
30 And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings .
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