His many stage plays include The Real Thing, Arcadia and the Hamlet-inspired Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

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This essential piece of documentation will not replace the real thing, but many users said having it handy can save time in emergency situations.

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This is a very difficult thing, but given real information many patients will choose to go home and expire respectfully.

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Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.

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The exhibition brings together many versions of his Sunflowers, and although it is not as good as the real thing, it's still quite something to see them on page after page in the book.

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Many Japanese seem to like robot versions of living creatures precisely because they are different from the real thing.

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The real different thing about Java is that it makes a layer you can put on many different operating systems.

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