Example sentences of "than [art] real thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the short term , next week 's budget crunch is more like a toy train crash rather than the real thing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Very nifty grinders Charlie Hatton had , all cunningly contrived to look more real than the real thing . |
| 4 | I 've seen them all : Rolexes , snide Rolexes that look better than the real thing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Because non-Porsche parts are often of a lower quality than the real thing . |
| 13 | Is she or is n't she — false hair from Antenna looks better than the real thing ! |
| 14 | Best Group Video : Even Better Than The Real Thing — U2 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In short , give the Gulf war a better moral and aesthetic ending than the real thing had . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This ends abruptly when the two finally meet and discover that ‘ fornication by airmail ’ is more enjoyable than the real thing . |
| 19 | And low-alcohol beer — which incurs no duty — is more expensive than the real thing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |