The phrase "actually been cut" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has indeed been removed or severed, often in a context where there may be doubt or surprise about the action.
Example: "I was shocked to learn that the budget for the project has actually been cut."
Alternatives: "truly been reduced" or "really been eliminated."
(It has actually been cut more than 50 percent).
I can't think of anyone in the history of ever who has actually been cut by a diamond.
But the detailed documents showed that the proposed 5 pence per kilowatt hour for power exported to the grid had actually been cut to 3 pence.
Time has actually been cut in half, and books flow in and out at the unimaginable rate of seventy-five-hundred an hour (that's a hundred-and-twenty-five a minute, 2.0833 a second).
Spotland is certainly a venue with all the necessary ingredients for the classic FA Cup third-round giantkilling, even if the giant in question has actually been cut down to size so often in the years post-Clough that it is not possibly the right term any more.
Most of the things I do could actually be cut without patterns.
In fact, the CBO claims the federal deficit will actually be cut by over 1 trillion dollars over the next two decades by this reform.
The corporate tax base will also have to be broadened (here, the OECD argues that once a raft of tax breaks is jettisoned, corporate taxes could actually be cut, stimulating the economy and bringing in more tax revenues).
Funding, moan paediatric researchers, has not kept pace with rising costs in the field, and NCI money for collaborative research will actually be cut by 3% this year.There is no national paediatric cancer registry that would let researchers track child and teenage patients through their lives as they can do in the case of adult sufferers.
Minute steaks can actually be cut from all over the animal so if you're friendly with your butcher, feel free to tell them if the last one you had was like old boots and ask them to cut it from a different part this time.
