Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Next to the Devil you have no more bitter , more poisonous , more vehement an enemy than a real Jew who earnestly desires to be a Jew . ’ |
| 2 | A phantom is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners than a real person . |
| 3 | It flirts with the EEC and the European Free Trade Association , but membership of either still seems more a fantasy than a real option . |
| 4 | In short , give the Gulf war a better moral and aesthetic ending than the real thing had . |
| 5 | The head of the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Helmut Ricke , urged the government and opposition to strike a deal in crucial talks next week on the privatisation of the state-owned concern , Reuter reports from Bonn : the talks between the government and the Social Democratic opposition are due to resume May 14 : politicians on both sides of the debate , which resumed last month , agree a decision must be reached before the Bundestag 's summer recess on July 3 or there wo n't be enough time in the legislative calendar to pass the bill before next year 's parliamentary elections ; TeleKom finance director Joachim Kroeske complained to the Wall Street Jorunal that ‘ We have an organisation more like a bureaucracy than a real company — we have civil servants with lifetime employment , high pensions and salaries that correspond to the length of service and how many children they have . ’ |
| 6 | Detroit , which remains on the calendar , often seems much more a social event than a real race . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Because non-Porsche parts are often of a lower quality than the real thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |