Example sentences of "real [noun] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are my enemy , but the only difference from a real fight is that I 'll miss you each time . |
| 2 | The only real worry is that , to finance a strategy driven by buying other firms , Hanson keeps a large cash balance — £7 billion at the last count . |
| 3 | ‘ My real worry is that it will be overburdened with all the problems there are in the community ’ . |
| 4 | The real change is that many are doing it alone . |
| 5 | The real story is that the logo was originally designed , was drawn , but Lou Silverstein . |
| 6 | But their real hope is that one day they 'll be able to take them home . |
| 7 | The real irony is that if Israel continues to systematically close all community service institutions , while the government sector has all but collapsed , then the people will be left with no option but to organise things for themselves … in the end only the popular committees will be left . |
| 8 | The real irony is that if , as so many commentators suggest , the British are becoming increasingly disillusioned with and disinterested in the royal family , all these much-hyped books would stop selling . |
| 9 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 10 | As we approach Christmas the real tragedy is that the vast majority of our friends — good , sincere people , most of them — will not get within a mile of the real meaning of Christmas . |
| 11 | The real tragedy is that there is an alternative which , unlike the poll tax or any property tax , has been tried and tested in many countries in Europe and in America . |
| 12 | The real crime is that burglars and muggers usually get a light sentence , while their victims receive only time to repair their shattered lives . |
| 13 | His real crime is that he is suspected by the Radical Party and militant members of the ruling Socialists ( ex-communists ) of plotting with the army , of which he was the nominal head , to stage a coup . |
| 14 | See , the real peace is not the stilling of the storm the real peace is that the assurance of who is going to stop it . |
| 15 | This is a far more realistic maximum for cases involving forced oral sex and other indignities , but the real question is whether such serious forms of sexual assault should be classified differently . |
| 16 | The real question is whether , under the circumstances , it would be wrong to continue intervention . |
| 17 | The real question is whether any bits of the former Soviet Union 's industry are worth having ? |
| 18 | The real question is whether the changes — which affect the psychiatric provision of half the districts in the region — should be properly planned ; or whether the RHA is prepared , as an impassive bystander , merely to observe them . |
| 19 | ‘ the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit … that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge . |
| 20 | ‘ Again , the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit since this judgment was delivered , that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge . |
| 21 | The real question is whether the employee has any power over customers . |
| 22 | He said he hopes to play well for Huddersfield etc , but his real dream is that Leeds sign him up again one day in the future . |
| 23 | The real issue is that the power of the female to gestate is brought back into symbolic conjunction with the generation of the divine presence , a conjunction excluded by patriarchal religion for four millennia . |
| 24 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 25 | The real issue is whether or not our results have some general message . |
| 26 | Passing sentence , the judge told Lashley : ‘ You are an appalling and dangerous man , and the real issue is whether the authorities can allow you your liberty in your lifetime ’ . |
| 27 | The real test is whether they have been used in all the cases where there has been flagrant abuse , and I have reason to believe that the traffic commissioners are doing their job competently in that connection . |
| 28 | Like any other scientific theory , it may initially be put forward for aesthetic or metaphysical reasons , but the real test is whether it makes predictions that agree with observation . |
| 29 | The real joke is that , by the time they made the decision , the alternative comedians were appearing in commercials and sitcoms of a kind indistinguishable from those they had once criticised . |
| 30 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |