Example sentences of "real [noun sg] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1987 ) , but its only real existence was as the spatial basis for collaborative planning in the late 1950s and 1960s . |
| 2 | The very real tragedy was in the fate of one man and what was needed was an Everyman figure who could carry the story by being charming , innocent , ordinary , and haunted and that is what the skills of Muni could give them . |
| 3 | At the back of her mind , it occurred to her how different real crime was from the glamorous violence portrayed on the screen . |
| 4 | Forget the Cup Final … the real fun was at the play-offs . |
| 5 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 6 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 7 | The real situation was between the widow and the youngster who was effectively older than a boy , in feeling and reaction at least . |
| 8 | He says that the real cost was to the public . |
| 9 | Or conversely , a political system in which a monarch or an aristocracy formally ruled might disguise the fact that real power was in the hands of the people . |