1.  Active learning, doing real things, being real scientists, these things typify classroom and school communities that work.

2.  Adorno, then, is certainly talking about real things.

3.  All kinds of information informs my attitudes, but I need to verify this by inspecting the real thing very carefully.

4.  And though the researchers had suspected all along that these hot springs existed, the real thing had far surpassed their imaginings.

5.  Artificial flowers can sometimes look better than the real thing.

6.  At worst, they become a time-consuming bureaucratic substitute for the real thing.

7.  But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing.

8.  But the parody was mistaken for the real thing, and the songs made the charts.

9.  But we ended up with nothing but the taste of real things on our tongues.