Example sentences of "when in reality [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rank 's Simon and Laura ( 1955 ) pursued a different tack , mocking TV for the phoniness of its images of life through the story of a married couple in a TV soap , who are represented as cooing doves on the screen when in reality they always bicker and squabble . |
| 2 | It is wholly inappropriate to begin to teach adults to learn how to read by using children 's story books when in reality they will be able to relate more to being able to read those by-laws of the state which prevent them from voting . |
| 3 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 4 | If we allow this thing to become about stopping the violence on the streets , once the violence stops we 'll think we 've solved something , when in reality we 've solved nothing . |
| 5 | That is , he thought he was still the amiable , easy-going champion he had been , when in reality he was a harried man who was beginning to learn about defeat and humiliation . |
| 6 | Wexford , very much a countryman at heart , marvelled that the townsman calls grass green when in reality it is as many-coloured as Joseph 's coat . |
| 7 | The present sixty , sixty five regime is discriminating against men , but when in reality it is the women who are in the much inferior position . |
| 8 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |