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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Very nifty grinders Charlie Hatton had , all cunningly contrived to look more real than the real thing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Somehow they were more terrible than the real threat of the oozing wounds across his back . |
| 6 | And low-alcohol beer — which incurs no duty — is more expensive than the real thing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This ends abruptly when the two finally meet and discover that ‘ fornication by airmail ’ is more enjoyable than the real thing . |