Example sentences of "not [vb infin] to reality " in BNC.
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| 1 | AB appears to be shorter than BC , but is not ; the appearance does not correspond to reality ; the appearance , we might say , is nonveridical . |
| 2 | Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) . |
| 3 | But the tenurial structure of south-west France remained confused and ‘ theoretical distinctions between nobles and non-nobles , … fiefs and rented holdings , did not correspond to reality ’ . |
| 4 | A central idea of postmodernism is , therefore , that appearances do not correspond to reality ; reality in the above case being the actual emotions and feelings transmitted and interpreted . |
| 5 | The truth is that people do n't react to reality ; they react to their perception of reality . |
| 6 | What 's with him he ca n't adjust to reality ? " |