Example sentences of "serious than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 2 | After 17 years of first-class cricket with nothing more serious than a broken finger or two , he chased a ball into the outfield while playing for Devon against Berkshire at Reading and fell awkwardly , breaking his ankle . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Recalling that Freeborn was recovering from nothing more serious than a successful operation for varicose veins , he approached the bed and said tentatively : |
| 5 | What constitutes ‘ serious damage to property ’ is obviously a matter of degree , but it probably means something rather more serious than a few broken windows . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're never too old to rock'n'roll , as the myth has it , but I 've thought I should try something a little more serious than a commercial music station when I move on again . |
| 7 | But we 've given him a thorough going over and I 'm sure it 's nothing more serious than a mild concussion . |
| 8 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 9 | More serious than the actual material damage in Schweinfurt itself were the psychological effects of the first raids . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I am surprised the judge did not think this matter a great deal more serious than the sentence appears to suggest . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | They considered the outburst as less serious than the disgraceful row at Cambridge University earlier in the season when Ramprakash launched a disgusting four letter tirade against the students ' Marcus Wight , and he almost came to blows with John Emburey when the stand-in skipper intervened . |
| 14 | ‘ What could be more serious than the trouble Craig is in ? ’ |
| 15 | Even so , the 37% drop in the Victorian sector is far more serious than the 9% setback that followed the 1979–81 boom . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | This Caxton Hall meeting was more serious than the previous one . |
| 18 | Both errors suggest weak visual memory : the second is more serious than the first . |
| 19 | It ca n't be more serious than the Fourths , can it ? |
| 20 | There is a mixture of indicators , but on the whole the adverse indicators seem heavier and more serious than the favourable ones , many of which are things such as confidence surveys , which do not tell one very much about what will happen . |
| 21 | He would send it to Baghdad or Cairo , and , within minutes , men even more serious than the two in the Frog and Ferret would be on their way to Wimbledon with automatic rifles . |
| 22 | In Brightman v Johnson ( 1985 ) The Times , 17 December an award made in December 1985 , Tudor Price J increased this figure to £95,000 to take account of the circumstances which made the plaintiff 's injuries more serious than the average case of tetraplegia ( see Report in para A2-001 of Vol 2 of Kemp & Kemp ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ What we 're talking about here is something infinitely more serious than the club . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A fundamental breach is one which the courts would consider more serious than an ordinary breach . |
| 27 | A little more serious than an expired tax disc , I think you 'll agree . ’ |