The phrase "actually the thing that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify or emphasize a specific point or concept in a discussion or argument.
Example: "What I meant to say is that this is actually the thing that will solve our problem."
Alternatives: "truly the matter that" or "genuinely the issue that".
"The drone barley snatch was actually the thing that made it for me," Jonathan Gill, a robotics engineer at Harper Adams University, told me recently.
"I thought maybe that will allow me to get some more free points and not to have to go every time in a rally, because that was actually the thing that was killing me," Federer said.
Actually the thing that's so often missed out from these debates is social justice.
"A massive volume of content that's getting funneled to you – what if the volume is actually the thing that makes it valuable?," he wonders.
But actually, the thing that stuck out the most to me about the piece (beyond The West Wing stuff, which I still find humorous/interesting) wasn't about Zuckerberg at all.
In fact, I discovered that my stubbornness to not get happy was actually the thing that was super-gluing me to my miserable life.
No, I am always resistant to shopping as a starting point because things like internet shopping are actually the things that stop me making art.
In work sessions as the show came together, Ms. Phillips said, he would use examples of work, new and old, "pointing to things that often would be the peripheral things in them, things that you might not see that were actually the things that were the most interesting to him — a monkey under someone's foot, something like that".
In her famous 1961 book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," Jacobs contended that what appeared to the apostles of urban renewal as blight were actually the things that made communities livable and appealing.
While we often think that it's all about the things, it's not actually the "things" that create the value, it's the connections among people, process, data, and things -- or the Internet of Everything -- that creates value.
It's actually about the thing that limits us all".
