Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing . |
| 2 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 3 | And the diagram is much simpler than the real neocortex , which contains 10,000 cells where only 25 are shown here . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Very nifty grinders Charlie Hatton had , all cunningly contrived to look more real 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 | I 've seen them all : Rolexes , snide Rolexes that look better than the real thing . |
| 8 | Is she or is n't she — false hair from Antenna looks better than the real thing ! |
| 9 | Somehow they were more terrible than the real threat of the oozing wounds across his back . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | And low-alcohol beer — which incurs no duty — is more expensive than the real thing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This ends abruptly when the two finally meet and discover that ‘ fornication by airmail ’ is more enjoyable than the real thing . |