Example sentences of "seriously [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are definitely spending seriously although there has been a late build-up to Christmas . ’ |
| 2 | But it 's no bad thing — we should take the two way traffic of actors and directors more seriously than we do . |
| 3 | Here , on a small island of some 2,000 or so souls , pocketed by the encircling hills around its charming port , was the ideal place for him to gather his thoughts and address himself more seriously than he had been able to do in busy Montreal , grim London or frenetic New York . |
| 4 | However , courts in America take far more seriously than European courts their role in encouraging safe products and company practices , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The French Revolution left Europe with new notions of liberty and equality which , however , America took far more seriously than Europeans did . |
| 6 | However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ . |
| 7 | It was a black day for Chancellor Kohl whose personal popularity has been steadily eroded over the past two years and whose ability to provide the CDU with effective leadership will be questioned more seriously than before . |
| 8 | ‘ The Scots take the identity of their regiments perhaps even more seriously than the English and there is a clear case , on grounds of tradition and sentiment , to preserve the Royal Scots . ’ |
| 9 | And , perhaps because his time in France immersed him in French culture , which takes the social sciences more seriously than Britain 's , he has plenty of respect for medical sociology . |
| 10 | ( Wales , in this respect like Scotland , has always taken education more seriously than England . |
| 11 | I think she took it more seriously than I did . |
| 12 | She believes Gedge is anxious to play it down because it was he who took it more seriously than herself . |
| 13 | But it does imply the need for caution in making extreme claims about the distances of quasars based solely on redshift evidence , and it does suggest that Arp 's evidence concerning other , similar associations should be taken more seriously than has often been the case . |
| 14 | For this reason , if no other , the question of censorship in libraries has to be treated more seriously than hitherto . |
| 15 | Some took their duties more seriously than others . |
| 16 | No , I think we all have it in us , but they take intuition much more seriously than we do . |
| 17 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 18 | Underestimated in England , because everywhere Kingmaker have visited abroad has taken the NME 's word as gospel — far more seriously than people do who read the NME in England . |
| 19 | Quite aside from the inherent dangers of establishing an energy system to any significant degree reliant on highly unstable nuclear technology , the implications of the spread of nuclear power for the extension of military nuclear capability must be taken much more seriously than it has been hitherto ( SIPRI , 1979 , 1980 , 1980A ) . |
| 20 | Nor would I have taken that any more seriously than I took his actual words . |
| 21 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |
| 22 | Cecil Melling ( the chairman of the Eastern Board , who had supported Schiller 's work since before nationalisation and took costing more seriously than his fellow chairmen ) for a time gained the support of the Central Authority 's commercial department for the better reflection of off-peak costs in the bulk tariff , but the other Area Board chairmen strongly opposed the initiative . |
| 23 | As part of the process of organizing Nova Scotia as a colony more seriously than before , the Acadians were pressed to take the oath of allegiance to George II in accordance with the Treaty of Utrecht , and those who refused were deported to the French settlement in Louisiana . |
| 24 | Fortunately , Kathleen Kenyon took pottery a little more seriously than her mentor , and her Jewry Wall report ( 1948 ) is one of the first serious efforts to use it on a large scale to date the main sequences . |
| 25 | Yet for all its humour , ‘ City Slickers ’ takes its male myths a little more seriously than the gay disco troupe . |
| 26 | Africans take failure far more seriously than you do here in the West . ’ |
| 27 | They do not speak about electrons and their states of motion as if they were to be taken less seriously than , say , billiard balls or elephants . |
| 28 | Shortly after the Second World War the typical advice given concerning this condition was : " Acute coronary thrombosis must be regarded more seriously than most cardiac conditions , a rest in bed for weeks or months , with a minimum of 4 weeks , should be prescribed in order to assure as sound a healing of the myocardial infarct as possible . " |
| 29 | A strange story in Plutarch ( Moralia 806 ) , about Kleon , at the beginning of his career , summoning his friends , his philoi , and renouncing their friendship , has been taken to show that Kleon took his role as ‘ people 's friend ’ more seriously than his predecessors ; but this embarrassing-sounding scene is hard to visualize , and is of doubtful historicity , being attributed to no source , reputable or disreputable . |
| 30 | He spoke more seriously than he had ever spoken before . |