Example sentences of "be [vb pp] real " in BNC.

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1 But here they are given real life , with quiet style .
2 Here , there 's a genuine meritocracy ; you 're given real authority to deal with clients and it 's much more rewarding . ’
3 I have been shown real ‘ good Samaritan ’ help by people in prisons here , and without their help I have found things a whole lot tougher than they were .
4 The next sentence begins ‘ Yet reason tells me … ’ and ends ‘ … then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination , can hardly be considered real . ’
5 And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out .
6 Robert Lord 's basic story-line provided a marvellous portrait of an ordinary worker and a very telling ‘ explanation of the roots of political prejudice ’ but these details had to be made real on film .
7 The freedom to learn can not be an empty slogan but must be made real for every student on every course of study of higher education .
8 Given that the coin was put in , it was then a matter of what can be called real chance that the bar came out .
9 The scaled parameters A ( transmitted input field ) , B ( amplitude feedback fraction ) and 8 ( cavity mistuning ) can all be assumed real .
10 Council tenants will be guaranteed real rights over their homes .
11 For the Holy Spirit and hope are two sides of the same coin ; respectively the objective and the subjective modes in which the future is made real to us in the present .
12 ‘ He 's seen real kangaroos , my dad .
13 Where 's your father if he 's seen real kangaroos ?
14 The gross domestic product which would have been observed in that month if the prices in the selected base period had prevailed : this is called real gross domestic product ( or gross domestic product at constant prices ) .
15 If complex eigenvalues exist , " double shifts ' ( see Wilkinson ( 6 ) ) may be made and two QR steps performed simultaneously to give rapid convergence while all arithmetic is kept real .
16 A full display of Christian Aid posters completed the scene downstairs ; and the whole Sale was given real distinction by Mrs Brackett 's elegant hand-written posters and Mr Moore 's stylish boards .
17 Over the next decade that prophetic vision was made real as the landscape of Irish politics underwent revolutionary change at the hands of men and women who had been moulded and inspired by the events of 1916 .
18 It was called real cheese turned into a spread .
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