Example sentences of "[to-vb] seriously the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should be able to consider seriously the idea of escape , and talk over problems of disguise and frontier crossings with other people for whom the war was not yet over . |
| 2 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 3 | This important point needs to be reemphasised if we are to consider seriously the possibility of re-introducing Islamic precepts into the law of property in Malaysia … |
| 4 | When the FA protested , they received a splendid rebuff to the effect that the PFA could not be expected ‘ to regard seriously the opinion that a football player forfeits a common legal right on entering into a professional engagement with a football club ’ . |
| 5 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 6 | This makes the conclusion reached all the more impressive , and certainly forces one to take seriously the possibility that even low-level exposure to lead may have gravely deleterious effects on children 's behaviour and intelligence . |
| 7 | It was the basis of a security which never allowed even the more worldly of them , like Brougham , to take seriously the possibility of ultimate defeat . |
| 8 | His refusal to take seriously the possibility of a confirmation theory , for example , can easily lead one to believe that he is closing his eyes to important normative issues . |
| 9 | As with all computer technology the price of the necessary hardware and software has been falling dramatically and more and more manufacturers are starting to take seriously the idea of producing pen based computers for the mass market . |
| 10 | These results certainly require us to take seriously the notion that retrieval process play a part in determining the outcome of a latent inhibition experiment . |
| 11 | ( It refuses to take seriously the claim that central-system processes - thinking — are explicable in terms of the causal interplay of representations . ) |
| 12 | Although some schools were quick off the mark to evacuate their children , it was not until May 1940 when the German Wehrmacht overran Holland , Belgium and struck deep into northern France that schools in danger areas began to take seriously the need for evacuation . |
| 13 | There were signs of reluctance to take seriously the need for revival of activity at the local level to overthrow apprenticeship before its due term under the act of 1833 . |
| 14 | I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory . |
| 15 | ‘ We need to take seriously the strength of argument that education opportunities should be used to undermine the power of homophobia in our society . ' |