Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Best Group Video : Even Better Than The Real Thing — U2 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The answer is that , for many of us , the cat has become a living toy rather than a real animal . |
| 4 | Clearly many are dissatisfied and feel that they can point to declining standards ( e.g. in the numeracy of engineering apprentices ) , but this situation is more likely to reflect changing social patterns of recruitment rather than a real decline in ‘ educational standards ’ . |
| 5 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 6 | Good results followed , yet it was a gesture , rather than a real solution to the manifold social and economic problems of the Third World . |
| 7 | My work is based on things remembered or imagined rather than the real world around me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the short term , next week 's budget crunch is more like a toy train crash rather than the real thing . |
| 12 | I fear that we are in a new norm , a prolonged recession with no real recovery , rather than the real prospect of recovery . |