Example sentences of "be [prep] real " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated . |
| 2 | If the figures are for real GNP per head then West Germany would fare better , because of its slow growing ( and latterly falling ) population , than America which has had millions of new immigrants . |
| 3 | Derelict land is resilient , robust and interesting , providing private areas that are so necessary to children — land to dirt-track on which cowboys and indians are for real , and ponds to sail boats that never do . |
| 4 | Here the dissatisfactions of the twenties seem to give way to a realization that life is not a rehearsal ; careers are for real . |
| 5 | Speeches , TV events , Senate hearing , newsclips and interviews are for real . |
| 6 | It 's also worth stressing that these books are for real people , with real gardens : we 're not giving them pictures of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace . |
| 7 | Hundreds of these survive ; and though they can never be a substitute for the originals , and raise very difficult problems of reliability , the best are beautiful and many are of real value to the art historian . |
| 8 | It is the structural proteins which are of real interest , as they go about the business of actually modifying cells ; the immediate early gene mechanism is a piece of molecular biological housekeeping , which probably seems arcane not merely to most non-biochemists but to biochemists as well . |
| 9 | You 're for real , or what we call real , according to our limited sensory equipment . |
| 10 | ‘ The chief thing to remember , ’ he said , ‘ is that when you lose your fear you 're in real danger . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If Grimma ever finds out , we 're in real trouble , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ And these poor fellows , ’ Mr O'Hara added , ‘ they 're in real bad trouble I 'd say , would n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 're in real trouble , you and I. ’ |
| 14 | She 'd whispered , ‘ We 're in real trouble … ’ |
| 15 | In that case we 're in real trouble . |
| 16 | If I worry about you , if we 're in real danger , I wo n't be able to protect either of us . |
| 17 | And if it does that you 're in real trouble . |
| 18 | Let old Shallot tell you this : when you 're in real trouble the women will help ; most men are cowards . |
| 19 | Unless you help yourself soon then you 're in real danger . ’ |
| 20 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 21 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |
| 22 | If his controller had taken her seriously , he might have been in real trouble . |
| 23 | THE terrifying Jurassic Park dinosaurs were much noisier in the film than they would have been in real life , a scientist said today . |
| 24 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 25 | And quite apart from my own views , I think we are in real danger of losing readership if we do n't reflect what I am convinced will be the general tenor of public opinion . |
| 26 | But if ever you are in real difficulties , send the car down to the jail about midnight and I will come and show you how to get out of them . ’ |
| 27 | All this , says Michael Dell , chairman of Dell Computer , means ‘ workstation makers are in real , serious trouble . ’ |
| 28 | there are in real problems . |
| 29 | Pension funds , on the other hand , are interested in the real rates of return , their liabilities are in real terms-pensions are paid in the future and are often index-linked . |
| 30 | I want to ensure that the system works properly and effectively , but I assure Opposition Members that , if they persuade and encourage welfare rights organisations to make speculative claims , they are not helping those who are in real need . |