The phrase "actually the things that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify or emphasize specific items or concepts in a discussion or argument.
Example: "When we talk about the benefits of exercise, we are actually talking about the things that improve both physical and mental health."
Alternatives: "specifically the aspects that" or "truly the elements that".
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 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.
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".
As one of Warren's correspondents from New Zealand summed up nicely, "The things that make us feel so abnormal are actually the things that make us all the same". Or this, from Egypt: "I never knew that people are so identical.
And the paradox we're running up against here, and the point of proceeding culturematically is precisely that some of the things the seemed least productive, or promising of value, are actually the things that are going to be most rewarding for us.
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.
Actually the thing that's so often missed out from these debates is social justice.
"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.
"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.
