Example sentences of "real [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CLUBLAND gets real about the recession . |
| 2 | But we can not distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory . |
| 3 | The inevitability of death becomes real for the first time . |
| 4 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 5 | So how would we find an outside correspondence for jealousy , a way of writing about it that would make it real for the reader , so real that it puts him/her in touch with his/her own jealousy ? |
| 6 | Fear of this confusion of values was still so real for the Reverend Alexander Cruden in the late eighteenth century that , not content with defining and illustrating the term from biblical texts , he added two paragraphs of solemn warning : Yet there is a cure , if men recognize divine omniscience : Cruden is echoing Christ 's words in Luke 's gospel , as Milton had done in Paradise Lost , after describing how Satan 's disguise deceived the archangel Uriel : Drawing on a pagan tradition , Montaigne passed a similar judgement on lying : ‘ To say that a man lieth , is as much as to say … that he is brave towards God , and a Coward towards Men . ’ |
| 7 | And if my theory about the power of celluloid is true , it follows that what 's real in the movies today will be real for the rest of us tomorrow . |
| 8 | As the defendant had explained the nature of the operation in general terms , her consent was real for the purposes of battery . |
| 9 | Shaken by her own crazy act and the strength of his presence , real as the hay and the sacks of corn , she became very still . |
| 10 | Memories real as the rough bark pressing against the back of her hands came crowding into her mind . |
| 11 | The one thing I do ask all my patients is that they try not to question whether or not the regression is real during the course of the session itself . |
| 12 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 13 | Mendeleev used these relationships to predict the existence and properties of undiscovered elements ; and with the discovery of Gallium , Scandium and Germanium his predictions were found to have been astonishingly accurate , convincing chemists that there was something real behind the arrangement . |
| 14 | It seems clear that writers for the Review felt the need to bring , in Marie St Glare Byrne 's words , " something real into the nightmare world where " stylistic " evidence flourishes " . |
| 15 | As it happened , Hardy 's ‘ partly real , partly dream country ’ left an indelible mark on the topography of Dorset ; ‘ Mellstock ’ and ‘ Weatherbury ’ became almost as real in the popular imagination as Stinsford and Puddletown . |
| 16 | It is in fact a belief that , because there is a logical basis for it , the imagined entity becomes real in the sense that it can be of value in dealing with the joys and sorrows of life . |
| 17 | Speculation about whether the Assassin troops believed that their experiences in the Alamut gardens fitted out as Paradise were really a dream , or whether the gardens ' compliant slaves were all too real in the flesh is thus academic . |
| 18 | And if my theory about the power of celluloid is true , it follows that what 's real in the movies today will be real for the rest of us tomorrow . |
| 19 | Could it be that unpleasant experiences were necessary to make a person feel real in the world , or was it caused simply by proximity to another living soul ? |
| 20 | ML : It 's real in the minds of the people at the time . |
| 21 | As Thomas put it : ‘ if men define situations as real they are real in the consequences . ’ |
| 22 | Paige could feel herself dissolving , losing everything she knew of herself , and yet finding herself more real in the re-moulding . |
| 23 | The rolling system and TAURUS will , however , reduce the settlement delay , and concomitant risks of non-settlement , which were very real in the back-log of unsettled deals after Big Bang . |
| 24 | Working for an outfit like that helps you tell the real from the fraud . ’ |
| 25 | 6. counter stereotyping of people and religions , and develop the capacity to discern the real from the sham , the inner meaning from the external expression , the central from the peripheral . |
| 26 | There had emerged a leader who taught his army to distinguish the real from the imaginary and the possible from the impossible . |
| 27 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 28 | Past and future were wiped out , and there was nothing real except the wind on his face and the springy heather and the small , tough bushes under his feet . |
| 29 | Bringing in these things would make the room real to the reader — and new to you , the writer , because you 'd have recreated it , having laid each of your senses open to it . |
| 30 | I 'm inclined to think that every dominant feeling in a story or a poem affects what is seen and needs to find its correspondences in events and objects outside , which in their turn make the feeling real to the reader . |