Example sentences of "but in real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sounds like a true distinction , but in real life things are a little different . |
| 2 | This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad . |
| 3 | ‘ Instead of negotiating a child will look at confrontation — but in real life you ca n't just zap people . ’ |
| 4 | But in real life Rovers Return couple Roy Barraclough and Julie Goodyear — who played Alec and Bet Gilroy — did n't get on . |
| 5 | Obviously it is quite easy to split a subject into relatively free-standing elements , but in real life one has to use knowledge from various ‘ packages ’ to solve problems and some undergraduates do not seem to develop this ability on the modular courses . |
| 6 | Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport . |
| 7 | But in real life such oscillations are seldom as rhythmical as those of a stone hanging freely from a string ; the comparison would be more exact if the string were supposed to hang in the troubled waters of a mill-race , whose stream was at one time allowed to flow freely , and at another partially cut off . |
| 8 | But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star . |
| 9 | He said the Government accused any critics of talking the country down , but in real life the people were more concerned about the Government ‘ pulling the country down ’ . |
| 10 | Paula Abdul , in here it 's got Paula Abdul 's pregnant , but in real life Paula Abdul is n't pregnant . |
| 11 | But in real music this happens only rarely . |