11.   Cheap, plastic-wrapped cheese is nowhere near as good as the real thing.

12.   Choreographically, James was the real thing.

13.   Good imitation leather looks and feels like the real thing.

14.   He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing - until he burst out laughing.

15.   How can you tell a fake Vuitton handbag from the real thing?

16.   How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing?

17.   It looks just like the real thing.

18.   It turns out that one is a knockoff, the other, the real thing.

19.   Mock examinations help you to prepare for the real thing.

20.   Not the real thing, of course, but rather a pandemic of stories about anarchists and conspiracies and such.