Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] actually [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jocelyne Saab , the Lebanese director , interestingly nuanced the question of what it actually means to be a woman film-maker by pointing to the need , for her , to make connections with other Oriental women . |
| 2 | Could you just remind us of what it actually means to the economy of this country . |
| 3 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 4 | Now this phrase strictly controlled erm I I I wanted to ask it myself because I you know trying to push it through to what it actually means I think the county council if you like has taken it at what may be face value and said well strictly controlled must mean something . |
| 5 | For a start , there is no clear agreement on what it actually means , with some people putting the emphasis on the first part of the oxymoron , and some on the second . |
| 6 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |