Example sentences of "serious than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |
| 2 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 3 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 4 | ‘ I am surprised the judge did not think this matter a great deal more serious than the sentence appears to suggest . ’ |
| 5 | The physical and psychological problems may or may not be fewer and less serious than the problems associated with other drugs , but who knows what kind of problems the cultural changes will produce ? |
| 6 | More serious than the faults mentioned previously are those deviations from the ideal which affect both the appearance of the dog and its working qualities . |
| 7 | It ca n't be more serious than the Fourths , can it ? |
| 8 | Even so , the 37% drop in the Victorian sector is far more serious than the 9% setback that followed the 1979–81 boom . |
| 9 | ‘ What we 're talking about here is something infinitely more serious than the club . |
| 10 | ‘ What could be more serious than the trouble Craig is in ? ’ |
| 11 | But those are the two risks the police had to weigh up and what they will tell you is that one risk , a gunman on the loose , is a potential to main and kill , one is far , far more serious than the risk of causing some temporary fear and fright of little children . |
| 12 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |