Example sentences of "[subord] in real [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 2 | Yet moderate Republicanism. differing from Democratic policies in emphasis rather than in real substance , appeared to strike exactly the right note with the electorate . |
| 3 | They are more often to be seen on Irish calendars than in real life ( except as ruins ) , but many survive as comfortable homes . |
| 4 | All the trappings of a lovely figure , clothes , make-up and hair-style can create a vivid , sharply focused image , but one that is better on the pages of a glossy magazine or on the television screen than in real life . |
| 5 | The majority of absent parents er presently are fathers , so I 'm going to ask you given the current er , emphasis on er in , well in in in the media perhaps , rather tha , more than in real life on women going it alone , whether by necessity or indeed by choice . |
| 6 | MANY MORE cricketers have been killed while batting at Lord 's in fictional matches than in real life , mercifully . |
| 7 | The fact that she and Liz had married two brothers was something that was much more likely to happen in fiction than in real life . |
| 8 | The risk with other-name information is obvious : a lender knowing that Mr Brown and Mr Robinson have dreadful debt records but that apparently Mr Smith at the same address does not , might suspect that all three are aliases for the same person , or at best members of the same disreputable household , and so may refuse Mr Smith credit — even if in real life all three are quite unconnected . |
| 9 | But if anyone could relax her , it was Miguelito , if in real life he was as tender , as passionate and as exciting as the music he made . |
| 10 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 11 | Lacking the elaborate Go-motion system of rods and computer control that Tippett had devised at ILM for the dragon in Dragonslayer ( 1981 ) , intended to create a slight blur as each single-frame shot was made ( since in real motion the subject moves fractionally in the one-fiftieth of a second for which one frame is exposed ) , they simply shook the puppet a bit each time . |
| 12 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 13 | Just as in real life they were assimilating a clinical attitude to human functions , many of which are taboo in Western society , their dreaming interpretations of their own sexuality were also in terms of a medical model . |
| 14 | But , note , that although your book will be much more like " real life " than the basic , blueprint formula , you still can not upset your readers by , as in real life , having the murderer be that passing sex pervert or opportunist small-time thief . |
| 15 | So , without a Great Detective , or even a lesser detective of the fictional breed , you will find that the clearing up of the mystery , which still must be presented with an air of progress , will be carried out not largely by the processes of ratiocination ( that word invented by Edgar Allan Poe ) but by the duller process of the accumulation of facts , as in real life . |
| 16 | One looked in drawers or behind doors and there , as in real life , one found small , inconsequential things . |
| 17 | ‘ Bet it does n't work as well as in real life , ’ he replied . |
| 18 | In these circumstances tournaments were not confined within enclosed lists but ranged over several square miles of ground , taking in villages , woods and vineyards , all of which might suffer as much damage as in real war . |