Example sentences of "[verb] any serious [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor are injuries commonplace : out of 250,000 judo practitioners in America , only around 70 ( 0.03% ) a year report any serious injuries , much fewer than in most active sports . |
| 2 | We wondered if this had been going on since we were moved out of Beirut last May , but there was nothing else to indicate any serious set-back to our chances of release . |
| 3 | After all , the dealer is in a position to know whether the car has any serious defects . |
| 4 | Far from it — it is an argument for policies extending beyond the school to the areas of work and income , if government attempts to equalise the outcome of education are to stand any serious chance of succeeding . |
| 5 | The euphemistic linguistic representation of sexual foreplay as in L'Esquiriel may be titillating to different readers to various possible degrees , but in general such presentations in the fabliaux are either too absurd or too blatant , or both of these , for the fabliaux to stand any serious comparison with the verbal eroticism of modern pornographic narrative . |
| 6 | While a number of different leeches will be seen in the garden pool it is only the fish leech that causes any serious problems . |
| 7 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 8 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 9 | Only three of these made any serious attempt to deal with the questions raised . |
| 10 | We believe that no one should be found guilty of a crime unless the statute or other piece of legislation establishing that crime is so clear that he must have known his act was criminal , or would have known if he had made any serious attempt to discover whether it was . |
| 11 | ‘ Edinburgh is Europe 's second largest centre for funds under management , but no bank has made any serious commitment to tapping this source from here , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Over on the M forty er the nearside lane is closed eastbound between junctions one and two , that 's between the A forty and the A three five five , but does n't seem to be causing any serious problems this evening . |
| 13 | The fuse in the mains plug ( which should be a 2 or 3 amp type for most projects ) should ‘ blow ’ and prevent any serious problems . |
| 14 | Just you do prevent any serious mischief . |
| 15 | Please let me know if this is likely to cause any serious problems . |
| 16 | Once it is accepted that surrogacy is unlikely to cause any serious harm , the idea that it could be used for social rather than medical reasons should lose much of the horror and condemnation with which it tends to be associated . |
| 17 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 18 | The Iraqi delegation left abruptly for Baghdad the next day , and Sa'adoun Hammadi announced that the talks had collapsed because the Kuwaitis had not shown any serious willingness to tackle the " major damage inflicted on Iraq " . |
| 19 | Erm but I have n't really watched any serious videos . |
| 20 | Er the French , despite the size of their programme , erm have n't had any serious incidents at all , in fact they they 're very well run er stations . |
| 21 | One of the few companies to have had any serious success in selling generic products is Interactive Information Systems ( IIS ) who offer their customers the opportunity to lease the hardware needed to run the laser disc applications . |
| 22 | you did erm , I think you 've not been asked to do , to say anything about have you had any serious illnesses at all . |
| 23 | It is a policy that has signally failed to persuade either the financial markets or the rest of the European Community , mainly because neither Mrs Thatcher nor Mr Lawson shows any serious sign of being persuaded by it . |
| 24 | Yesterday , Martin Eaglestone , chairperson of the North Wales Local Government Committee which represents 8,000 workers , said that Nalgo welcomed any serious attempt by the Welsh Office to meet the aspirations of staff . |
| 25 | The authorities regarded my collection as some kind of joke ; no-one paid any serious attention to it . |
| 26 | The company has been out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any serious deliveries at least until October . |
| 27 | Although Newco will seek from the vendor warranties which may provide redress if a problem arises after completion , it is preferable to identify any serious problem before the purchase and negotiate a reduction in price , rather than to litigate a warranty claim afterwards . |
| 28 | Marxism attempts to replace that code without providing any serious motive to induce people to behave decently and for the common good . |
| 29 | As always , the bridge pickup lacks any serious punch , but its middle and neck cohorts do an admirable job , if a little buzzily due to a lack of any serious screening . |
| 30 | The few who did get through , mostly mature if determined ladies carrying packets of tea , butter and biscuits , did not create any serious inconvenience . |