Example sentences of "[adv prt] to serious " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then it is down to serious show business with the climax on Saturday afternoon when the Expo champion is announced . |
| 2 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 3 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 4 | Westminster Evening Institute also settled down to serious work . |
| 5 | Rather , supporters tend to wait until the seemingly inevitable lapse of concentration in defence before expecting the side to get down to serious business . |
| 6 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 7 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 8 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 9 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 10 | Fianna Fail 's formula is that once the Unionists get down to serious discussions they will be addressed . |
| 11 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 12 | The administration 's proposals included increasing mandatory sentences for crimes involving the use of semi-automatic and other firearms , and reviving the federal death penalty to cover a broad range of crimes ranging from treason , espionage , terrorism , and crimes using " weapons of mass destruction " , through to serious drug offenses . |
| 13 | The EEC was attempting to do within its transition stage of fifteen years what Benelux did in three : and yet it was only at the end of its transitional period that Benelux had had to face up to serious difficulties in seeking to achieve its ambitions . |
| 14 | It is as well that such arguments do not stand up to serious scrutiny . |
| 15 | But there is no evidence to suggest that those buying shares in privatised industries have then gone on to buy other shares , and the Conservatives ' boast of a share-owning democracy does not stand up to serious examination . |
| 16 | Which could add up to serious trouble . ’ |
| 17 | After the biplane era , Spencer Flack 's ‘ toy department ’ was now ready to move on to serious play . |