Example sentences of "[noun] to real [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Women , though at one time excluded from most public functions , were never by reason merely of their sex in a substantially different position from men as regards criminal liability , property and contract , if we except the rule ( now nearly obsolete ) which prefers males to females in the succession to real estate on intestacy .
2 After a switch to real race machinery , Bradl soon became known as a daring , go-for-broke rider and by 1987 he 'd taken his first European championship win and second overall in the series .
3 In contrast to the English Nonjurors , whose Jacobitism tended to be lukewarm at best , the Scottish episcopal clergy actively preached the divine right of the Stuarts to real power .
4 At all stages , pupils learn about France and about French customs , and we encourage them to see their study of French as the key to real communication with real French people .
5 Suggest it , for instance , as a way of presenting work to real readers outside the classroom — parents , relatives , friends in other classes .
6 He has made a great contribution to anchoring the art of architecture to real life , real science and real modernity …
7 A second dimension to real co-ordination involves only the donors , whose policies outside the aid arena may conflict with those within it .
8 With the retail prices index this week likely to fall to around 3.7 per cent , it would add a further perverse twist to real interest rates that are ravaging the property sector , office as well as residential .
9 Furthermore , the anomalous condition produced the greatest number of incorrect lexical decisions ( i.e. NO responses to real words ) .
10 If you prefer a world of fantasy to real life , maybe you should see someone about it .
11 To visit the Lovell village of Puebla Aida is to see possibly the greatest commitment by any developer to real individuality and imagination .
12 Without doubt , the Grid lends itself supremely well to training programmes : its relevance to real life is less sure .
13 Angry Cruyff FOOTBALL : Barcelona coach Johan Cruyff yesterday accused his players of throwing in the towel and lacking the heart to defend their Spanish League title after his side dropped a point with a poor performance in a 1–1 draw at home to Real Burgos yesterday .
14 Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title .
15 There was also a quote from Forbes ; he praised the stand I had taken in the face of management victimisation and stressed my right to real work .
16 The research aims first to identify the factors responsible for the growth of the various elements of public expenditure , so that some idea can be obtained as to their future development ; and secondly to discover to what extent these developments have represented , and will represent , claims on real resources , contributions to real output , or simply an increasing burden of taxation .
17 The Author has staggered from the deathbed , so is it time for critical analysis to pay attention to real people 's lived lives , their traceable , material existences ?
18 Paying attention to real readers is certainly one productive way of breaking out of the view that the text alone determines audience response , but it is not without its difficulties .
19 In many cases they are more impressive than the resemblance of " my " insects to real insects .
20 This is the so-called imaginary direction of time , at right angles to real time .
21 But the imaginary time direction is at right angles to real time .
22 In a sense it can be thought of as a direction of time that is at right angles to real time .
23 No doubt considerable generalisations have also been made by the French but the division into more zones ( each with different financial incentives ) gives one a greater sense of confidence that care has gone into linking agricultural supports to real variations in handicap .
24 Destinations range from banks in Zurich to real estate in Manhattan .
25 It is known to map real metrics to real metrics only for space-times with two space-like Killing vectors .
26 So far , we have restricted our studies to real eigenvalues .
27 Objects are analysed as myths which provide artificial resolutions to real contradictions in society .
28 Now , NOEL MALCOLM is looking forward to a shift in the agenda — back to real news
29 At primary school , children would learn definitions off by heart ( ‘ a verb is a doing word ’ ) , without regular practice in using verbs in real communications to real audiences .
30 ( In a subsequent experiment Axelrod , Haryadi and Leiber ( 1977 ) used letter strings which were always pronounceable but the approximation of the letter clusters to real English varied such that some letter combinations occurred very commonly in English ( called high frequency approximations ) while others occurred much less frequently ( low frequency approximations ) .
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