Example sentences of "in reality [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reality they should have been dumbfounded and embarrassed , wishing the floor would open up and swallow them . |
| 2 | In reality they are mercilessly small when you realize for how long they have to be eked out ! |
| 3 | 252 — 5 ) to which of course the prostitute can indeed testify that it these things appear incompatible — is n't misogyny a kind of hatred , and licentiousness a kind of love , albeit a debased one ? — in reality they go hand in hand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In reality they are too powerful to be challenged head on , although the thrift horrors did at least prompt the first congressional hearing into their finances for more than 30 years . |
| 6 | Cossacks , the self-appointed protectors of Russian society , are publicly hostile critics of western consumer brands but ‘ in reality they enjoy the status derived from them . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The idea that the superpowers are vital to the success of the peace process is based upon the influence they exert on the regional contestants , but in reality they have helped to perpetuate regional conflict and global competition in the area , with the encouragement of local clients . |
| 9 | Competitions for practical designs usually imply that prizewinning entries will find their way into the market , but in reality they often fail to find a manufacturer . |
| 10 | The issue of non-accidental injury , although mentioned under psychological factors , obviously also has physical , sociocultural , environmental and politicoeconomic aspects and is another reminder that although in this textbook , the five factors are dealt with separately for the purposes of discussion , in reality they are closely related . |
| 11 | In reality they will do everything in their power to avoid this , because the primary function of their venom is to incapacitate their prey and they can not afford to waste it unless they are driven to extremes . |
| 12 | They may appear to be fainting , collapsing and suffering from shock , but in reality they can be none of these things . |
| 13 | These ‘ happy homes ’ are meant to give old people a sense of dignity and worth , but in reality they live in a privatised world cut off from both family and the wider community . |
| 14 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 15 | In reality they were confronting those mixed audiences that frequented these theatres . |
| 16 | While they can have their uses in the very short term or as a stop-gap measure , in reality they would be needed in very large numbers in any tank containing large cichlids . |
| 17 | In reality they are difficult to cut and are very sophisticated , inspired by Balenciaga , Norell , Mainbocher and early Givenchy . |
| 18 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 19 | However , most new shareholders have only a small stake in the companies in which they have invested , and in reality they may have little influence upon the way that the companies are run ( see , for example , the claims of John Scott pp. 57–62 ) . |
| 20 | Although magistrates are officially supposed to be broadly repre-sentative of the community that they serve , in reality they conform much more closely to Lord Devlin 's cliché about the composition of the jury in pre-reform days . |
| 21 | The Commission argued that , even if the requirements in question formally applied in the same way to nationals of the host state , in reality they were discriminatory in terms of both their purpose and their effects , since the overwhelming majority of British nationals involved in the fishing industry were likely to fulfil the residence requirement . |
| 22 | Although the issues of capacity and genuine consent or rejection are separate , in reality they may well overlap , so that a patient in a weakened condition may be unduly influenced in circumstances in which if he had been fit , he would have resisted the influence sought to be exercised over him . |
| 23 | So in reality they need never have been all at exactly the same place , only very close together . |
| 24 | Even the ‘ rivers ’ are ‘ shallow ’ in this world but , as Ralegh 's nymph retorts , in reality they ‘ rage , and rocks grow cold ’ and nothing in nature is as picturesque and harmless as Marlowe would wish it to be . |
| 25 | They 've got to keep Danny Wallace , Dion Dublin happy even though in reality they are miles from a first team place . |
| 26 | In reality they would be , they 'd be moving onto another area . |
| 27 | Quite often in , in reality they do n't get thought about and it 's quite often these sort of things which cause programmes not to work , because on site people work round them . |
| 28 | But he said loyalist terrorists ‘ sullied the terms Protestant , unionist , Northern Ireland and British while in reality they are pagans , no friends of Northern Ireland and in the end enemies of all its people . |
| 29 | They still try to portray us as vulnerable and weak , but in reality we 're very tough — not just the enormous butch ones , but small ones like us . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |