"It's probably fair to say…" I'm writing about my personal experience, so it isn't "probably fair", it's actually the case.
Then, during pre-season, Moyes talked of how he had "overtrained" Robin van Persie, on the face of it, an innocuous, if injudicious turn of phrase – unless it was actually the case.
However, actions like those by the Broward County School Board have me wondering now whether it's actually the case that any high school student who cannot read The Great Gatsby in the original just shouldn't be tested on it.
Or maybe it was actually the case back then and we were just too blinded by our own sense of adolescent melodrama to tell otherwise (and are now crippled with nostalgia).
Orwell wrote that "Big Brother is watching you" -- and later the Situationists realized that it was actually the case that "Big Brother is you, watching" -- but today it should read "Big Brother is you watching others watch you watching them watch you".
Those of us truly serious about evaluating Alexander's proof also need to know how likely is it that Alexander would think of the divine as an explanation for his unexpected and incredibly salient experience, whether or not it was actually the case.
"It's actually the case that if we don't consciously arrive at a deep understanding of our own soul's purpose, we will by default take on the purposes that society or our family of origin offers us," says Gustin.
This possible dissociation between PA and TV viewing has obvious relevance for public health, because, if it were actually the case, the design of health-promotion strategies should be drastically altered.
But this (one-dimensional) framework cannot capture what is expressed by operators like 'it's actually the case that'.
