Example sentences of "[adj] in real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so different in real life , ’ he maintained . |
| 2 | At present the system allows a large vocabulary of English words which can be represented in memory with practical size and processing requirements , and is searchable in real time . |
| 3 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 4 | Peter Hain , then as now more interested in real cricket than in racially-structured sport , was one of those who did more than most to fast-forward the process of making cricket accessible to most south Africans . |
| 5 | It 's not that easy in real life , of course , but the book is a lot of fun . |
| 6 | This movement , which though tiny in real time is immense in the aeons of geological time , is wholly responsible for the other dramatic features of the Pacific . |
| 7 | And of course , the options people were given in our survey gave a more extreme range of APRs than is likely in real life . |
| 8 | They are good little theoretical exercises because they are easily described and algorithms for solving them are easily programmed , but they have a lot of symmetry , which is most uncommon in real life . |
| 9 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 10 | ‘ We were n't involved in real decision making . |
| 11 | You look quite normal in real life . |
| 12 | But the question is not abstract in real life , so to the interesting questions of how must be added the urgent question of what . |
| 13 | In particular , we wished to incorporate those subjective and probably unquantifiable factors , involving human emotion and motivations , that seem so important in real life . |
| 14 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 15 | The effect of addressing a location which is not available in real memory is to interrupt the operating system , which will then retrieve the required page of virtual memory ( by reading it from disk , making room for it in main memory , and if necessary writing some other page in main storage to disk ) . |
| 16 | The first pictures encountered by the youngest readers ( and the youngest readers will be very young : ‘ Ideally , a small pile of good books awaits the new baby 's arrival ’ according to Dorothy Butler , 1980 , p.27 ) will be simple , clear pictures of objects to be seen in the reader 's immediate world , objects that are becoming familiar in real life . |
| 17 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 18 | But if you measure from 1960–90 , America draws level in real GNP growth with West Germany , and then overtakes it both for 1970–90 and 1980–90 . |
| 19 | The wages quoted are low by today 's standards ; the examples can be dismissed as irrelevant in real life , and seen only as the means by which averages are learned — in which case they are what Cockcroft would describe as ‘ about nothing at all ’ . |
| 20 | Legal concepts are inconclusive , and so fail to draw distinctions vital in real life . |
| 21 | Not only does a story or novel provide a safe distance from the experience but it also enables far deeper knowledge of people than is common in real life . |
| 22 | This last situation is common in real life . |
| 23 | Why do many women find The Story of O erotic , and why is there a ‘ split ’ between sexual fantasy and that which one might find pleasurable or erotic in real life ? |
| 24 | Remember , flowers are seldom symmetrical in real life , so why should yours be ? |
| 25 | As rakish in real life as on the screen , Elliott had a passion for solo travel , fast motorbikes and playing the Stock Exchange . |
| 26 | Friends of mine who read SHE ca n't believe that this man who is so outrageous on the page is so quiet in real life . |