Example sentences of "happen in real [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As this never happens in real life , many people find themselves assuming the sound must be behind the head .
2 Simple-minded formulae about the additive relationship of genes and environment — although they still appear , often without even a health warning , in standard genetics text-books — bear little relationship to what happens in real life .
3 good , that ties in with , you know , what we know actually happens in real life .
4 This is just what happens in real life .
5 Using technology , this process can now be partially externalised in that , for example , a simulation of a situation can be run in parallel with a real situation and can be manipulated independently of what happens in real time .
6 It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation .
7 ‘ Coincidences simply do n't happen in real life … ’
8 Fairy-tales can happen in real life , she told herself .
9 Erm greeting and appropriate sociability fine , you were a little bit nervous so you tended to sort of talk over me a little bit but that 's not a problem , it probably would n't happen in real life .
10 Strange coincidences did happen in real life as well as books , but …
11 Ah well , stranger things DO happen in real life than happen even on Brookie , y'know …
12 That do n't happen in real life .
13 Of course , the whole odd train of events is most unlikely to have happened in real life .
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