ACTUAL

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sth's actual existence

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Poaching now threatens the animal's actual existence.

the actual/true extent

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Rescue workers still do not know the true extent of the disaster.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

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amount

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Kent also seems to have been the major importer of garnet, although the actual amount that survives has not been quantified.

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The actual amount of data going over the phone line is quite small.

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Allowances and Deductions Screens Codified details, start date and actual amounts are entered on to the screen.

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The actual amount disbursed under the scheme in the two years for which it ran was £17 million, not £24 million.

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National income is the value of the actual amount produced and so is necessarily equal to the national product and expenditure.

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The actual amount you pay depends on the type of account you have.

behaviour

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This observation did appear to conform with the actual behaviour of money wages in the interwar period, particularly in Britain.

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An approximation we make about the actual behaviour enables us to model this behaviour in a dynamic framework without complicating the estimation.

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The type description considers language as abstract knowledge, the token description as actual behaviour .

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These, in their turn, were seen as indispensable for the explanation of actual behaviour .

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But they did not yet feel able to go through with changes in their actual behaviour .

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Beyond it we must look at actual behaviour to assess the impact of higher taxes on incentives.

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In order for parents to express these worries, however, the child must at some time have produced actual behaviour .

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For this reason, econometric studies have been used to explore actual behaviour .

cost

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While connection and rental fees for non-business users are lower, the actual cost of the phone itself could be significantly greater.

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Based on actual costs , Norris figured the real costs were $ 258 per machine.

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Second, the actual cost , both in time and money, can be very much less than might at first be anticipated.

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How does the actual cost compare with the planned cost for meeting the objective?

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Officials make it clear that the actual cost is not yet known.

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But whatever the actual cost of environmental regulation may be, it is large and commands attention.

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Therefore, it is said, one is looking for the actual cost of providing that benefit for the employee.

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The idea was to charge for the actual cost of delivering the water, since pumping uphill is expensive.

costs

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The contractor is paid for the actual costs he incurs plus a previously agreed lump sum for his overheads and profit.

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Based on actual costs , Norris figured the real costs were $ 258 per machine.

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Differences between the actual costs and cost profile and the budget are called variances.

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But the company believes, he added, that fees based primarily on actual costs will attract new customers.

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In comparing actual costs with standard costs management should first consider the economy of operations.

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Reconciliation of the actual costs and the budget should be done regularly throughout the relevant budget period.

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Comparing these subjective judgements with actual costs might suggest that people are wrong about, for example check trading being cheap.

event

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The decision to continue collaboration after 1918 can only be understood through the actual events of that year.

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The captured instant often takes on meanings far more portentous than the actual event .

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Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic, precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required.

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Reliable eyewitness reports of actual events , when embedded in such a list, suffered a serious erosion of credibility.

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In miming aspects of the events , signer 2 also used inappropriate mime which only partly visually represented the actual event.

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Relieved yet confused, I tried to reconstruct the actual event .

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This is not surprising, if both reflect memories of an actual event in the same general area.

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But, like the Super Bowl itself, expectations for these Web sites usually surpass the actual event .

experience

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The incidents related in her story, however, are drawn from actual experiences of visually handicapped pupils.

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Any actual experience of love could enter into such a sys-tem only as a harbinger of disaster.

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Yet the actual experience was surprisingly different.

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Schools, polytechnics and universities all have magazines and newspapers on which you may gain actual experience while still a student.

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Yet the actual experience of bombing was sharply differentiated.

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Inevitably, the actual experience is far removed from the dream.

fact

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In actual fact , what the monarchy does do is to reinforce Britain's position in the world as an outmoded Ruritania.

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In actual fact , we do know now a great deal more than when the numbers game began.

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Most proposals are, in actual fact , generated internally within departments.

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In actual fact , membershiP Patterns differ from one country to the next.

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In actual fact the two fish are not that alike.

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The methodology chapter must reflect the actual facts of the research experience.

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In actual fact , coil-tap not withstanding, the sounds produced are a sort of sit-on-the-fence compromise between the two.

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In actual fact , the premier was growing more and more disenchanted with the private power lobby.

number

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Because not all catches were reported, the actual numbers caught were probably even higher.

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The value of the rehabilitation centres extends far beyond the actual numbers released.

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Among wild creatures rarity is a relative condition, not always determined on the basis of actual numbers .

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But the actual number of police officers employed at 15 October 1991 was 1,713, not 1,820.

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For example, what do we mean by the actual number 3?

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If the actual number of entry-versions exceeds the design assumption by more than 25%, the system will be unmanageable.

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The actual numbers of surviving big mammals are astoundingly small-grizzly bears in the lower forty-eight states can be counted in the hundreds.

performance

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The preparation of a budget provides a measure against which actual performance can be monitored.

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However, we can not predict people's actual performance from their level of experience.

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Abilities indicate potential rather than actual performance .

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A contractor could use the actual performance when not working under claim conditions to establish what should have been foreseeable.

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Thus the measure of damages is the difference between the contract price and the market price on the date for actual performance .

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I think everyone needs the director to be vitally interested in the work well beyond the first week of actual performance .

practice

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In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors.

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In actual practice they flew at one or less.

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Ideas about baby feeding and weaning are constantly changing and actual practice can have a profound effect on child health.

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In actual practice , audiences, interests and markets overlap quite considerably.

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However, lip service is often paid to the desirability of delegation without accompanying it by actual practice .

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This is why timber develops a good fraction of its theoretical modulus in actual practice .

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But just how does this work in actual practice ?

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Moreover, an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them.

process

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If this is to be your approach see pages 87-92 for the actual process of post-production editing.

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The actual process of revision will be a group or team effort and involve everyone.

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Hence the shift in emphasis from the finished work to the actual process of creation of the Action painters and others.

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The actual process , however, is that a lobby or the administration proposes legislation.

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This idea potentially oversimplifies the actual process of offering vulnerable people choices which might result in their leading fuller lives.

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The actual process of collecting was very complicated.

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Every bit, that is, except the actual process of setting-up.

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Meanings are also created, developed, modified and changed within the actual process of interaction.

rate

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Changing metaphor, the equilibrium unemployment rate is seen to be shackled to the actual rate.

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The comparison of the effective exchange rate and actual rates clearly demonstrates the value and necessity for a weighted exchange rate.

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The annualized inflation rate for 1989 was 47.5 percent, but the actual rate at end-year was 44 percent.

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The analysis applies in reverse if the actual rate of interest is thought to be abnormally low.

result

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The actual results of the Group may differ materially from those illustrated.

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Again, the methods or source is as important as the actual results making one inexorably tied to the other.

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In such circumstances actual results influence judgments of responsibility and culpability even though the agent did not contemplate the result which occurred.

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Power becomes the intervening variable between desired outcomes and actual results .

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After all, the Literary Digest Poll for the 1932 election came within a tiny margin of the actual result .

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While the intention was to stimulate industrial growth by freeing the market, the actual result was vastly different.

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Also shown are the actual results for the full year 1992.

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Unlike the pre-election polls, Gallup's findings on how people had cast their ballots were very close to the actual result .

size

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He also said the actual size of the store had not yet been determined.

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On top of that, a super-levy of up to 3% - depending on the actual size of the harvest - would have to be imposed.

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The whole sheet would then be photographed at actual size and the resulting image used to make a plate.

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The Easton Press Books shown smaller than actual size .

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It often depends on the actual size of the specimens selected as sub-adults are often more agreeable than fully grown ones.

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In most cases you can choose whether to print the pattern at actual size or scaled to a percentage of actual size.

use

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Availability of resources and their actual use seem frequently to bear little relationship to each other.

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They figured that most personal computers are not in actual use most of the time they are turned on!

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Furthermore, it is said, a defensive strategy based on such weapons effectively rules out the actual use of nuclear weapons.

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Can you imagine advanced scientific methods divorced from the policy and ethics of their actual use ?

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Although a hot-wire anemometer is simple in principle, its actual use is a matter of some complexity.

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But police believe these figures disguise actual use .

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Classroom activities here would prepare the learners to recognize the relevant co-occurrences and correlations as they occur in actual use .

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The likelihood is that such spare syntactic structures appear very infrequently as independent forms in actual use .

value

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The actual value of delta H varies from species to species.

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The customer has told you that he wants £3000 for the car - the actual value at 57,000 miles is half that.

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Therefore it's impossible to estimate the actual value of the deal.

word

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The words printed are not always the actual words spoken or written to us.

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Remember to pay ongoing attention to the intonation, and regard it as of equal importance to get right as the actual words .

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Nor would I have taken that any more seriously than I took his actual words .

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There is an evaluation of the Flesch Index, but mainly the analyses stress actual word usage rather than sentence construction perse.

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Allowing for the actual word being within ±1 of this figure, we have a measure of approximate word length.

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She picks up tones and drifts rather than actual words .

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Another kind of pattern mask is a word mask, in which the backward-masking stimulus is itself an actual word.

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May I check with the Minister his actual words , which I have in front of me?

work

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Most of the actual work of book provision is operated on an area basis - in common with other functions of the library service.

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The corporations are getting exceedingly rich, but manage to kiss off those who do the actual work for them.

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However in many branches active members who do actual work , not just attending committee meetings are few.

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I help you with the good taste, and then I do the actual work .

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The constant should be adjusted to reflect fairly the nature of the actual work involved.

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They learned from their experiments that performing the actual work took in total only 90 minutes.

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Charles found that, as ever, making a film involved much more hanging around than actual work .

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However, they should not be seen as paragons of efficiency in getting the actual work done.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

in (actual) fact

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Development time is, in fact , he says, cut from years to months.

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For that very denial had, in fact , given me far more.

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He did not in fact inherit the title until 1705, but a love of hunting he certainly did.

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I never did that in fact ... I went into filming, straight away.

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In other respects they are rather mysterious - more so in fact than seems to have been widely realized.

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Miss Ashley had in fact , except as regards changing her birth certificate, overcome all these obstacles to acceptance.

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The result was a wonderful success for Wren, for the garden planners and for Carteron himself-a triumph, in fact .

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When the smell was pure oak, I remembered childhood woods; in fact one particular place in one particular wood.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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Although buses are supposed to run every fifteen minutes, the actual waiting time can be up to an hour.

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How does the actual cost compare with the budget?

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It's a true story, based on actual events.

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The actual amount of water needed by the crop depends on the weather conditions.

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The party took place three days before Daniel's actual birthday.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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But this version involved an actual family everybody knows right here in town.

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Headroom isn't such a problem, though, and actual rear seat comfort is very good.

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However, the actual and potential role of the state requires consideration in different terms.

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It is an analysis of the actual communications practices in the global system in terms of traffic.

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Plus you receive the actual text and not a photocopy, or an actual image file and not a scan.