Example sentences of "[is] actually a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 2 | There is actually a television room as well , I think , but if you do want to keep yourself to yourself that 's fine . |
| 3 | We always tell folk to watch out for clubroot , because the wallflower is actually a member of the cabbage family . |
| 4 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
| 5 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |
| 6 | Officially described as Fibresand ( a composite of silica sand reinforced with rot-proof synthetic fibres ) , which is used widely for exercise gallops , the Southwell track is actually a mixture of Fibresand , rubber particles and polymer . |
| 7 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 8 | Røst is actually a small group of islets rather than a single island , and a haven for birds in the spring . |
| 9 | The video is actually a parody of Robert Palmer , the slithering lounge lizard of pop who four years ago thought it cool to cast his videos with countless women dressed exactly the same , acting like mass-produced mannequins . |
| 10 | Or is it , as Leslie Dick suggests , that contemplating one 's own self-destruction or mutilation is actually a way of perceiving and relishing one 's wholeness — self-destructive fantasies as a kind of warped feast of narcissism ? |
| 11 | It is actually a scalded curd cheese , the curds being heated in the whey before being drained . |
| 12 | Chèvre is the best known of all the goats ' milk cheeses , possibly because the name is actually a generic term for all goats ' milk cheese . |
| 13 | Ladislav answered : ‘ When I was young , the corso was called drafouš , which is actually a corruption of Trafalgar Square . |
| 14 | It is then possible show that the hypersurface is not merely a coordinate singularity , but is actually a singularity of space-time in the sense that there does not exist a C 1 extension from region II to this surface . |
| 15 | It is actually a very good performance of the piece , so it is possible to conclude that Ravel was present only in an advisory capacity , if at all . |
| 16 | The fact that it is actually a bit of wood is not important ; what is important is the function , which can be carried out most conveniently by a bit of wood in the right place . |
| 17 | What the APU science teams have assessed is actually a fairly forward-looking kind of school science , but it is still of little relevance or interest to very many youngsters in Britain . |
| 18 | While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem . |
| 19 | A novel theory about the origin of oil suggests that it is actually a product of the earth 's core , and not of living organisms at all , but this is not widely accepted . |
| 20 | Nikolayeva certainly does not have the Horowitzian panache generally associated with Russian virtuosos — it is her mind and ears which are transcendental rather than her fingers — but that ‘ handicap ’ is actually a positive attribute since it makes for painstaking care and originality in all of her interpretations . |
| 21 | It is actually a fairly simple matter , well within the capability of Neolithic and Bronze Age people , to set down a straight line across hilly country using three surveying poles . |
| 22 | If you have a nice circle of friends , professional people mostly , one of them is actually a judge — a judge ! — then there is no cure and you must kill yourself . |
| 23 | In fact the first person to say it was anthropologist Thomas Hornsby Ferril , who wrote an article in the Rocky Mountain Herald in December 1955 that put forward the idea that American football is actually a : |
| 24 | He is actually a very good drama teacher , and because ALL drama lessons are practical they make a welcome change from the routines of writing , reading and watching videos which are the usual diet in most other subjects . |
| 25 | This scale is logarithmic , meaning a change of one unit is actually a ten times change in the acidity or alkalinity , i.e. , pH 6 is ten times more acid than pH 7 and one hundred times more acid than pH 8 . |
| 26 | The classic is Java Fern Microsorium pteropus which is actually a true brackish water plant although sold mainly to freshwater hobbyists . |
| 27 | The middle bias of the 210 gives way to that ‘ bass-and-treble-no-mid ’ slappy sound , which is actually a very usable general bass tone . |
| 28 | Andrew and Waddy grasp on to some of these in the ending lick , which is actually a standard blues ending which can be adapted to many tunes , particularly those of the 12-bar variety . |
| 29 | Then there 's guitarist Adam , who may look like a squat punk bruiser with his daft haircut and tufty moustache , but is actually a guitar teacher and occasional dance track sessioneer . |
| 30 | It is actually a child toilet trainer , designed to encourage little boys to improve their ‘ aim ’ . |