Example sentences of "than the real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is done by having a virtual computer which more closely matches the user 's requirements than the real computer , and implementing it partly by direct operations of the hardware and partly by operations of the operating system running on the hardware , A major aspect of the virtual computer is the provision of high-level languages , but the operating system is expected to provide other facilities , such as simple access to transput devices ( in particular a filing system , and communication with the operator , and perhaps the user , at a terminal ) , the current date and time , etc . |
| 2 | Somehow they were more terrible than the real threat of the oozing wounds across his back . |
| 3 | Rather more serious , although not , therefore , more grave , is the way in which this draws attention to the conventional rather than the real distinction between characters — especially tale-tellers — at different levels of a framed narrative . |
| 4 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 5 | In the short term , next week 's budget crunch is more like a toy train crash rather than the real thing . |
| 6 | With iron gords , or hoops as the rich people called them , and with clashes and tensions no less thrilling and dangerous than the real thing , we competitively raced until we dropped . |
| 7 | Very nifty grinders Charlie Hatton had , all cunningly contrived to look more real than the real thing . |
| 8 | I 've seen them all : Rolexes , snide Rolexes that look better than the real thing . |
| 9 | The piste groomers work around the clock to grind up the snow which , because it possesses a denser molecular structure than the real thing , compacts easily into ice . |
| 10 | The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing . |
| 11 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 12 | And those amazing sets , with their incredible special effects ( a tiny saxophone for example which costs more than the real thing ! ) were so treasured by Harry and Matthew that they were kept safely in storage until now ! |
| 13 | Jim Dine , on a trip to Norway , describes Munch 's The Scream as ‘ more of a caricature of Angst than the real thing ’ , while Sean Scully waxes lyrical about how the colours in his Manhattan bathroom remind him of Matisse . |
| 14 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 15 | But we 'd rather have a major scare that turned out to be a false alarm than the real thing and a late start , sir . ’ |
| 16 | Because non-Porsche parts are often of a lower quality than the real thing . |
| 17 | Is she or is n't she — false hair from Antenna looks better than the real thing ! |
| 18 | Best Group Video : Even Better Than The Real Thing — U2 . |
| 19 | Spilt religion , all too clearly , can be more intense than the real thing , and Lewis was always far too much of an Enlightenment man for talk like that . |
| 20 | In short , give the Gulf war a better moral and aesthetic ending than the real thing had . |
| 21 | Many approved of this , including one Brit rock press hack who 'd pronounced ‘ The Pogues ’ to be in much better shape than the real thing who 'd seen them not long before . |
| 22 | This ends abruptly when the two finally meet and discover that ‘ fornication by airmail ’ is more enjoyable than the real thing . |
| 23 | And low-alcohol beer — which incurs no duty — is more expensive than the real thing . |
| 24 | Accuracy is about thirty yards and we have tried to make the guns as noisy as possible though they still sound more like airguns than the real thing , I 'm afraid . |
| 25 | ‘ Ultra Violet ( Light My Way ) ’ was one of the highlights , ‘ Even Better Than The Real Thing ’ kicked hard , ‘ One ’ was scintillating and ‘ Love Is Blindness ’ hypnotic and powerful against a backdrop of city lights in black and white on the video screens . |
| 26 | I fear that we are in a new norm , a prolonged recession with no real recovery , rather than the real prospect of recovery . |
| 27 | In terms of Fig. 10–5 , if is established , how is it that the number of workers recorded as unemployed is measured between points 2 and 4 rather than the real wage falling so that labour market equilibrium is established at Trade union power is an obvious explanation and is explored further in the context of coalitions below . |
| 28 | My work is based on things remembered or imagined rather than the real world around me . |
| 29 | While the spectre of the Albert Hall being deemed a furnished tenancy , like that of the vexatious litigant in the law of standing , haunts the annals of legal literature rather than the real world , we do nonetheless require more control than that allowed by Gordon 's commencement theory . |
| 30 | His virginity , his half-shameful fear of her close , warm-smelling , overwhelming femaleness , his social insecurity , born in that small , terraced house near the river at Ely , where he had lived with his widowed mother , nurtured by the desperate contrivings , the small deceptions of respectable poverty , the deprivation that was so much more humiliating than the real poverty of the inner cities . |