adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bad/serious accident
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There’s been a bad accident on the freeway.
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The road is closed following a serious accident.
a big/major/serious/heavy blow
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The earthquake was a serious blow to the area’s tourism industry.
a big/serious/severe setback
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This is a serious setback to the company.
a considerable/serious delay (= very long )
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After a considerable delay, the report was finally published.
a difficult/serious dilemma
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He was in a serious dilemma because neither option seemed very desirable.
a major/serious obstacle
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Debt is a major obstacle to economic growth.
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There are serious obstacles to obtaining sufficient funding.
a major/serious/deep/severe crisis
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Our farming industry has been hit by a serious crisis.
a realistic/real/serious option (= something that you can really choose to do )
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I wanted to start my own business but financially it was never a realistic option.
a real/serious alternative
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Co-operation offers the only real alternative.
a serious assault
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Last year, serious assaults increased by 40%.
a serious challenge
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At the moment we are facing a serious environmental challenge.
a serious charge
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Drinking and driving is a very serious charge.
a serious clash
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This was one of the most serious clashes since the two countries agreed to a ceasefire.
a serious complaint
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Serious complaints of negligence have been made.
(a) serious crime
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Kidnapping is a very serious crime.
a serious defect
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The movie has a few serious defects.
a serious disturbance
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There were serious disturbances in a number of British cities.
a serious emergency (= a situation which involves danger to people )
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The police usually respond quickly to serious emergencies.
a serious expression (= one that shows you are not joking )
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I saw the serious expression on his little face and tried not to laugh.
a serious incident
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The road is closed following a serious incident earlier today.
a serious offence
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serious offences such as murder or armed robbery
a serious point
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He’s making a joke but there is a serious point there as well.
a serious rival
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He knows that he has no serious rival for the job.
a serious talk
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Before she went to college, her father sat her down for a serious talk.
a serious violation
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The committee said there had been serious violations of Senate rules.
a serious/bad error
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The police made a serious error, which resulted in a young man’s death.
a serious/genuine attempt
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This is the first serious attempt to tackle the problem.
a serious/grave mistake
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There was a serious mistake in the instructions.
a serious/grave mistake
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The decision to take the money was a serious mistake.
a serious/grave risk (= real and big )
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The most serious risk of flooding this evening is on the River Wye.
a serious/important matter
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It is a very serious matter to mislead the police.
a serious/major embarrassment (= severe and important )
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This episode has been a serious embarrassment for the club.
a serious/major hazard
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Lead pipes are a serious hazard to health.
a serious/major objection
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There were serious objections to using the videotaped evidence at the trial.
a serious/major problem
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Lifting things carelessly can lead to serious back problems.
a serious/major riot
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The jail was hit by a serious riot last year.
a serious/major threat
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Bad air quality poses a serious threat to public health.
a serious/severe constraint
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The country's debts put serious constraints on its economic growth.
a serious/severe disadvantage
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Public transport is very bad here, which is a serious disadvantage.
a serious/steady relationship (= one that lasts quite a long time )
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It was his first serious relationship.
a serious/terrible misunderstanding
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There have been some serious misunderstandings which have led to conflict.
a severe/serious shortage
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There is a serious shortage of food in some areas.
a strong/serious competitor
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In the global economy, China is emerging as a strong competitor.
a strong/serious disagreement
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If you have a serious disagreement at work, talk to someone about it.
bad/serious/severe
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The mines have caused serious pollution of the river system.
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The pollution was so bad that most of the fish died.
big/major/serious
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The school’s biggest problem is a shortage of cash.
grave/great/serious/severe misgivings (= serious and important worries )
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Most of us have grave misgivings about the idea of human cloning.
grave/serious danger (= very great )
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You have put us all in grave danger.
great/grave/serious peril
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The economy is now in grave peril.
great/serious/considerable concern
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The spread of the disease is an issue of considerable concern.
great/serious/significant harm
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If you drink too much alcohol, you can do yourself serious harm.
harmful/serious/adverse etc side effect
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a natural remedy with no harmful side effects
important/serious implications
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The results of the experiment could have important implications for scientists.
in a serious/light-hearted etc vein
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poems in a lighter vein
major/serious/severe difficulties
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By then, we were having serious financial difficulties.
sad/serious
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Maggie looked at him with a sad face.
serious consequences (= bad and important )
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Too much fishing in these seas has had serious consequences.
serious consideration
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At the time, I didn’t give his suggestion serious consideration.
serious flooding
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The heavy rain has led to serious flooding in some areas.
serious misconduct
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He was fired for serious misconduct .
serious questions
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The incident has raised serious questions about police conduct.
serious repercussions
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There were serious repercussions on his career.
serious thinking
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Your mother and I have been doing some serious thinking.
serious trouble
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I was having serious trouble knowing where to begin.
serious unrest
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We are receiving reports of serious unrest in areas of northern India.
serious
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The injury wasn’t serious.
serious
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vaccines against serious diseases like hepatitis and meningitis
serious
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Soon afterwards, they had their first serious quarrel.
serious
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These are very serious accusations indeed.
serious/grave doubts
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They have some serious doubts as to his honesty.
serious/grave reservations
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They had serious reservations about the plan.
serious/major/basic/minor etc flaw
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a slight flaw in the glass
serious/notable/major omission
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Your failing to note her mistakes is a serious omission.
serious/severe erosion
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Some areas of the coast have suffered severe erosion.
serious/severe unemployment
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After the pit closed, the town experienced severe unemployment.
serious/severe
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His illness is more severe than the doctors first thought.
serious/severe
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The earthquake caused severe damage to a number of buildings.
serious/severe
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He was admitted to hospital with a serious infection.
serious/severe/bad
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He was taken to Broomfield Hospital with serious head wounds.
serious/significant erosion
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The demonstrators were protesting about the serious erosion of individual freedoms.
serious/strong/leading etc contender
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Her album is a strong contender for the Album of the Year award.
severe/serious burns
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She was taken to the hospital with serious burns.
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Several of the survivors suffered severe burns .
severe/serious/extreme hardship (= very bad )
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The 1930s brought severe hardship to the Midwest, especially for Oklahoma.
severe/serious/important limitations
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This approach to the problem has serious limitations.
strong/serious competition
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The company is facing strong competition in the market.
the funny/serious side
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Luckily, when I explained the situation, he saw the funny side of it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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A spiritual void needs to be satisfied, so what is offered as serious and sacrosanct must be as good as it pretends.
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Problems of rot were always with us but there were other problems as well which were just as serious .
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Not that I think Carrick will win very much but at least they would be recognised as serious contenders.
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He was being serious , or as serious as he knows how.
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Like the quatrain poems it is funny at the same time as serious .
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Supplies of food ran sufficiently low to pose a threat as serious as invasion.
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Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture.
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The catalogue of offences regarded as serious enough to merit dismissal for a single occurrence is sometimes lengthy.
how
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Secondly, just how serious is this man?
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How hard writing was for each of us was a gauge of how serious we were.
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Children are being shown a new video, which shows just how serious the consequences can be.
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Everybody knew at once how serious the situation was.
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I knew he now realized this was serious , but I was not sure I had got through to him how serious.
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The thing that really struck me about her is how serious she was, how those big eyes soaked everything in.
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At the outset, you must first decide just how serious you want to be.
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The attempt at adding-machine accuracy shows how serious the priests were about numbering the new saints bound for heaven.
more
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The touch judges come in for some even more serious verbals.
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They left behind the remaining six injured who were in more serious condition.
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No, it's more serious in my view.
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Meanwhile, more serious mainstream criticism sees the colorblind vision of the republic at stake.
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The middle-class YCs had been far more serious at school than Willis' lads.
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Is his back problem more serious ?
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The second objection is more serious .
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In those letters, he outlined his activities and threatened more serious attacks on Barclays customers.
most
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The report gives details of 58 of the most serious accidents.
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Expulsion from Congress is reserved for the most serious misconduct and is considered unlikely in this case.
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Priority would be given to patients with the most serious conditions.
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Typically, companies that were experiencing the most serious crisis were willing to implement change at a faster rate.
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There is clearly insufficient evidence for the most serious charges.
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Furniture was smashed and fists flew in the most serious trouble at the Maze in recent months.
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New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes.
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This penalty, which is rarely invoked, is the most serious that can be inflicted on a bank.
really
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Surely in time and eternity only death and hell were really serious .
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We thought this was a good beginning for some really serious outreach efforts.
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Out of the sky came another really serious menace.
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Next month, the battle gets really serious .
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Was that because it was really serious .
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But if we are really serious about personal responsibility, and believe that everyone should be equal, things must change.
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Vologsky had not monitored all his automatic recording, but he had seen enough to know that things were really serious .
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If you want something really serious to do, there are lots of causes crying out for energetic, capable people.
so
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The financial constraints on wives are also not so serious , as an increasing proportion of married women are in full-time work.
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Woodward had never known him to be so guarded, so serious .
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Making out it was all so serious , instead of a few smokes with other kids and a little shop-lifting to pay for it.
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I could have cried had our situation not been so serious .
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He says didn't realise it was so serious and sent him back to class with an ice pack.
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But the magistrates chairman said the offence was so serious , they may have to send both men to jail.
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But I must resist the temptation to treat so serious a matter with levity.
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He hadn't realised she was so serious .
too
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Condensation: a little during morning and evening but nothing too serious .
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The potential is too great to ignore-and the hazards too serious to be underestimated.
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But I don't think Marea was too serious about this.
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In the end, no subject is too serious for opera to treat, or necessarily too unpleasant, or too poignant.
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She was clever, and he thought she was a bit too serious , although she had a sense of humour.
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She didn't want him to think it was too serious .
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The expression on Vologsky's face was too serious and pensive for what he had in mind.
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She dared not allow them to become too serious .
very
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There is no doubt that some very serious and remarkable studies have been devoted to Modigliani.
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She was listed in very serious condition Sunday night.
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In recent years, especially since 1982, a number of countries have developed very serious international debt problems.
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This is a very serious matter.
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The man had been accused of raping a local girl and was in very serious trouble.
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But something very serious had been sacrificed in this generous and possibly inescapable transaction-intellectual vitality.
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She came from a very serious , Puritan family.
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I think that is very , very serious .
■ NOUN
accident
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They're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents .
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The reason is that serious accidents are so infrequent, safety experts said.
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But it could mean the difference between financial security and financial disaster for you and your family should a serious accident strike.
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But, serious accidents can happen along the way when you use the passive voice.
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He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while.
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According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, a serious accident could occur.
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Subsequently, a serious accident at the company's water-theme park in Surrey had a detrimental effect on its public profile.
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But serious accidents can and do happen every day of the year.
attempt
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Yet most managers in most companies make no serious attempt to do that.
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It was too early in the trip for a serious attempt and all of us were decidedly under the weather.
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This had been consolidated in power by the end of the fourteenth century, after the one serious attempt to overthrow it.
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The 1970s saw the beginning of serious attempts to develop remedial services in local authorities.
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It should be emphasized that they were not serious attempts to take her life but cries for help.
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Scientists confirmed that the addition of chlorine was unlikely to protect against any serious attempt to interfere with the water supply.
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When comprehensive schools became the norm there was still no serious attempt to rethink the curriculum or the values incorporated within it.
attention
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The view that women are on average better on language tasks and men on spatial tasks continues to receive serious attention .
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Although I am not in complete agreement with all of Lacanian theory, I believe it deserves serious attention .
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Contradictory discourses and practices within and between these agencies of socialization are given little serious attention .
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These questions in turn suggest further lines of research that deserve serious attention by historians of both science and art.
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Book publishing is another important aspect of the print media to which private organisations and the government should pay serious attention .
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International debt relief is at last getting serious attention , but personal debt continues to be a festering problem.
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In a sense, one can only be delighted that Leapor and other poets like her are receiving such serious attention .
blow
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Like the contagious diseases defeat, Simon's resignation was received as a serious blow by the medical profession.
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This year, that amount could plummet to $ 1 million, a serious blow to the already financially struggling tribe.
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The Taff Vale decision was a serious blow to trade unionism.
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A person who is quickly back on his or her feet after a serious blow .
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The decision also represented a serious blow to the morale of the regulatory authorities.
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His departure will, of course, be a serious blow to our hopes of pulling away from the foot of the table.
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It is being said with some conviction that Labour inflicted a serious blow on itself with that Sheffield monster rally.
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If implemented, this will be a serious blow to takeover specialists.
business
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Food and its enjoyment are very serious business and are not to be hurried.
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Save yourself for the serious business of eating. 7 Treat alcohol with care.
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For them the climb was a serious business .
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Fun would have to take second place to the serious business of home-making and saving money.
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Meanwhile we set about the serious business of replacing the broken foremast.
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Mostly it means concentrating on having fun, but for some it's all a very serious business .
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Still, to her, reading is very serious business .
case
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Once again, it may be doubted whether this is sufficiently high for the most serious cases .
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Since then, my head has snapped back fast enough to get a serious case of whiplash.
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In serious cases the aim is to shut down the system safely.
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In several other less serious cases , Reno asked for an independent counsel.
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For the more serious cases , there was air transport direct to base hospital, possibly hundreds of miles to the rear.
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Nevertheless, I do believe that Al presents a serious case which must be respected and reckoned with.
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In more serious cases your doctor may prescribe you an oral antibiotic which will reduce the number of sore and inflamed spots.
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But no serious case has been made.
challenge
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The rising number of landless and marginal farmers poses a serious challenge .
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The businessman is no longer subject to a serious challenge of any sort.
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The accelerating destruction of the environment is one of the most serious challenges we face today.
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But next year's election could be a serious challenge .
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The most serious challenge to Keynesian macroeconomic policies, however, has come from Friedman and the monetarists.
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To my mind, the most serious challenge is to minimize the cost of establishing the smallest possible profit-making power system.
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The paper claims this represents a serious challenge to other Risc vendors jostling for position in the software arena.
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We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge .
concern
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This must be a matter of serious concern for the Church.
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Such critics are trivialized and placed firmly at the margins of serious concern .
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In the meantime, there is serious concern about the future of secondments for courses longer than one term.
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They have returned, in more technical terms, to a serious concern with ontology.
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I also learnt of untoward knock on effects and serious concerns about fragmentation and dis-enfranchisement.
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Detectives said she was known to be upset over personal problems and ex-pressed serious concern for her safety.
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Rural depopulation is a matter of serious concern .
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As the memorandum was written, serious concerns arose about whether the child's interests would paramount.
consequence
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Very serious consequences can and do follow from people or organisations being indifferent to the results of their actions.
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Beating up women is unacceptable and offenders must pay serious consequences .
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Boston employers are facing an acute labour shortage with potentially serious consequences for economic growth.
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Douglas also developed some mild paranoia that, in a president, might have had far more serious consequences .
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They may catch other infections such as measles or chicken-pox, with serious consequences due to their deficient immune system.
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If unfavorable patterns emerged, we could address them quickly before they had serious consequences .
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Obviously it has had serious consequences in this case.
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Another assault on Neil Francis could have serious consequences for the perpetrator.
consideration
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Please be on the lookout for talent in your classes and give serious consideration to auditioning yourself.
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Gas-coal is not yet under serious consideration .
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It does not mean that money has to rule, but it is a necessary and serious consideration .
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The daily specials posted at Takamatsu demand serious consideration .
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The question of introducing nitrate protection zones got serious consideration only through the Nitrate Coordination Group in 1987.
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But his critique of capitalism is still worth serious consideration .
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The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons.
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Throw anything you want into our cage and we will give it serious consideration .
contender
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We were looking at a very serious contender indeed.
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The best-film voting went to three ballots and no big studio film was a serious contender .
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I was now a serious contender for the gold medal.
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Teal was not, after all, a serious contender .
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The only serious contender left in the presidential race is Guei himself.
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As this process continues to develop, more serious contenders for political leadership will come to the fore.
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A serious contender for Vibes album of the year.
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Not that I think Carrick will win very much but at least they would be recognised as serious contenders .
crime
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For every 100 persons convicted of these serious crimes , 85 are male.
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Naturalization Service improperly permitted naturalization of immigrants convicted of serious crimes .
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Bigamy, for example, is a serious crime in Britain yet it is normal and accepted practice in other countries.
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He said the law should specifically target violent offenders, rather than drug-related offenses and less serious crimes .
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In the last decade, the ouija board has been a feature in several serious crimes .
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Although the Navy had substantial evidence of several serious crimes , there was never a trial for any of them.
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The total of forty-two sins ranged from serious crimes like murder to minor wrongdoings like listening to gossip.
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The second man faces charges for being an accomplice to a serious crime .
damage
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Nothing around us spoke of serious damage .
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Unlike Washington state, there were no reports of injuries or serious damage .
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However, an effective competition policy needs power to control mergers because of the serious damage they may inflict on competition.
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The Rockets are concerned the operation could reveal serious damage , although no official diagnosis has been made.
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The explosion sparked a fire which caused serious damage to their flat above a shop in Pensby, Wirral.
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No serious damage was being done to the fort.
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Now they can use it to predict - and thus forestall - more serious damage .
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The Nimbus was undamaged but the K8 had one wing severed at about half-span as well as other serious damage .
danger
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Certain deficiencies, of vitamins or iodine, can be harmful, and there are serious dangers from mercurial or lead poisoning.
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Downsizing often cut out coordinators, the people most important to these informal networks, leaving them in serious danger of collapse.
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Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger .
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Malnutrition is one of the most serious dangers .
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Erosion and rising sea levels are now posing a serious danger to the lowest-lying islands.
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And in this there is serious danger .
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We ought to take that serious danger into account.
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If heterosexuals in developed countries provide such a niche, they will be in serious danger .
doubt
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A number of methodological criticisms have been made of these studies which cast serious doubt on the validity of their findings.
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In cases of serious doubt , there are a variety of techniques for assessing employees' reactions.
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The awful thing was that, as I said it, I began to have serious doubts about it.
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Even among some Taft supporters, however, there were serious doubts that the controversial senator could win the presidency.
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Indeed, there must be serious doubts about the decision to hold them this year.
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Such questions cast serious doubts on the likelihood of to having no meaning in these uses.
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He had come to entertain serious doubts about it himself.
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This raises serious doubts about his qualities as a statesman.
effect
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All these points can be acknowledged without serious effect upon the method.
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The more serious effects include acute confusional states, tachycardia, urinary retention, and aggravation of glaucoma.
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These cuts will also have a serious effect on the availability of legal help in criminal cases.
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The conflict was regularly reported in the mass media and had a serious effect on public confidence in the party.
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Nearly 80 percent of Party membership was unemployed, with serious effects on Party finance and organization.
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An act of ill-treatment may be significant because it has a serious effect upon the child.
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Scientists have been warning for at least 30 years that humankind's pollution of the atmosphere was about to have serious effect .
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The fact that there is now total deregulation will have a serious effect on small shops.
error
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But they had all made a serious error , himself included.
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To me this is a serious error , the source of all our troubles.
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The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
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A serious error could easily result in every semi-conductor in the project being destroyed, possibly in spectacular fashion.
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This on its own is not a serious error .
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He had suddenly made a serious error .
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In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment.
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The company had claimed that Mrs Ashgrove was replaced because of serious errors in her work.
flaw
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However, this analogy possesses two serious flaws .
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In general, any new cryptosystem could harbor serious flaws that are discovered only after years of scrutiny by cryptographers.
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Expert reveals serious flaws in museum and gallery security.
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Globalisation, accelerated by the internet, is exposing serious flaws in the world's tax systems.
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Remember your ideas may have a serious flaw .
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Critics have, however, found serious flaws in the whole approach.
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Similarly, a model in which a market is identified and then the technology sought to fill it also has serious flaws .
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This account contains a serious flaw .
harm
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A few weeks back here in the World won't do my career serious harm .
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The crime will depend on whether the wound was serious harm or not.
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Yet if you can see it still protruding, you can retrieve it before serious harm is caused.
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Actual bodily harm need not be serious harm and it has been held to include a hysterical and nervous condition.
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Actual bodily harm must mean something less than serious harm.
illness
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It can cope with a cold, fight off a serious illness and with time, even mend a broken bone.
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The writers blame serious illnesses and various other family misfortunes on their larcenous behavior.
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This is why the germs seldom cause serious illnesses .
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When you've faced a serious illness , feeling better is the best feeling there is in the world.
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But no complaints: up to now, I have never had a serious illness .
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In the event of injury or serious illness abroad a 24 hour service is available for immediate help.
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A pregnancy undertaken at a time of serious illness or death of a family member will bear added stress.
injury
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Both riders walked away and escaped serious injury .
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Two in five elderly people involved in accidents are killed or sustain serious injury .
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All were treated at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, five of them for serious injuries , a spokeswoman said.
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One scored a direct hit but, despite being showered with glass, there were no serious injuries .
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Jody understood the devastation of serious injury .
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The hospital says he'd risk serious injury if he were to fall while using the legs.
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Should it be the larger one who is aggressive, the fish should be separated before serious injury occurs.
issue
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But is a birthday the right occasion to raise such serious issues ?
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The audience is attracted by the promise of the bizarre, then is exposed to serious issues .
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Let's concentrate on the important, serious issues and spend less time worrying about such matters as the quality of the beer.
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A more serious issue centers on the noise made by the Hunter and other remote-control planes that fly out of Fort Huachuca.
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The serious issue was the dispute over the proper amount of remuneration.
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Deciding on optimal resource allocations for different research projects is a serious issue .
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But now water is a serious issue .
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For those graduate students seeking acceptance of a research proposal the problem of feasibility is a more serious issue .
matter
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It is a serious matter , attacking a white person, let alone a white minister.
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Inquiry is a serious matter and should be done boldly, whether applied to innovation or ponderous theoretical matter.
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Mr. Howard I agree that it is a serious matter .
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A politicized game is made out of serious matters to scholars and the field.
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This was clearly a serious matter .
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The loss of potential output resulting-from involuntary unemployment is clearly a serious matter for an economy.
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Q: Do your congressional colleagues consider this a serious matter ?
money
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This was money , serious money.
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It is all about serious money .
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Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ?
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Judging by its state-of-the-art studios, the owners have put some serious money into NewsTalk.
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Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment - it was the best way to make serious money .
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Most have a core of solid businesses that ensure that at least parts of the firm are making serious money .
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To serious money and serious business, however, all this was anathema.
offence
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That phrase is read narrowly to convict the accused of handling rather than theft, handling being a more serious offence than theft.
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He justifies this view on the ground that rape is a very serious offence to which serious penalties attach.
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Adultery is seen as natural for a man, but a serious offence for a woman.
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Dismissal following automatically if a third serious offence was committed.
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Jailing Murray, Lord Kirkwood described the charge he had been convicted of as a very serious offence .
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If, however, their conduct is itself disorderly, they may commit the less serious offence .
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This was a serious offence , and she was dismissed.
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His most serious offence in that time was taking part in a robbery while armed with a crossbow.
problem
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Alcoholism and heart disease are also serious problems .
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The Coast Guard also has said it has found no serious problems caused by adding the two towers.
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Repudiation of a claim under this clause can cause serious problems .
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And the fact that both doctors were insured by the same company must have posed a serious problem for the company.
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These are serious problems , which need to be addressed carefully.
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Fire officials said bee stings and poison oak were the most serious problems .
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In its place we shall have the serious problem of gearing for London.
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High levels of coliform bacteria may indicate more serious problems in a water supply, such as the infiltration of fecal material.
question
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These works raise a serious question as to whether their subjects are suitable cases for treatment - that is, by librettists and composers.
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I had serious questions involving it.
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Military intervention would raise serious questions about the stability of the regime.
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And community goodwill is in serious question .
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But there is a serious question mark over whether fundholding at the level of single practices will remain viable.
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Such an inquiry could have produced serious questions and a thorough analysis regarding the precepts of Centralism that underlay the entire scheme.
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This evidence alone poses a serious question of ethics with regard to the pharmaceutical industry.
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But the episode has raised serious questions .
risk
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Most patients coming to hospital after an overdose are not at serious risk .
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Both the capability-building priority and the unusual time commitments bore serious risks to their professional advancement and reward.
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Under that case the accused must take an obvious and serious risk .
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This material is at serious risk of being stolen.
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He took a much greater and more serious risk , one which his relatives to this day gloss over or fudge.
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With that political cover, the White House figured it could authorize the move without serious risk .
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Its leaders knew there was a serious risk of trouble if it took a mass march into Gqozo's lair.
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If this fails, then clearly the eggs or young are at a serious risk .
side
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A small amount of Lentizol can kill and a wrong dose of Stelazine can cause serious side effects.
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Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction was a lot of fun but it had a serious side too.
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Of course, there was a more serious side to all this.
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Part of his serious side stems from Williams' friendship with paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve.
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But there is a more serious side to it all.
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Orthostatic hypotension occasionally is a serious side effect.
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Although I may be seeming to make light of my brain's struggles, there is a serious side to it.
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But like the drugs that made it possible, the plan had serious side effects.
thought
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They were not good, serious thoughts .
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He said he received a couple of calls from job-placement agencies yesterday, but has not given a new job serious thought .
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But little serious thought has been given to this problem.
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Not a serious thought in my head.
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He also gave some serious thought to how he should look.
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It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate.
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President Yoweri Museveni's government is the first to give serious thought to the Karimojong problem.
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You could be spending a lot of time in serious thought , much to the consternation of those around you.
threat
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Decide whether the pest is a serious threat or merely a nuisance.
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Surely they realized that I posed no serious threat .
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The embryonic plot appeared to have been an amateurish operation which did not pose a serious threat to the government.
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The Village Leagues posed a serious threat since they affected many West Bank villages.
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No one sees them as a serious threat .
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I have always found such liaisons a serious threat to the order in a house.
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As the summer of 1862 began, the regime seemed to be under serious threat .
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Now we read of the most direct and serious threat of all.
trouble
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If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble .
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Today, the pension plan for the owner and ten office workers is in serious trouble .
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If the forester finds green wood in your woodpile, you're in serious trouble .
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This can lead to serious trouble .
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It is a star in serious trouble , with bright bloated lobes of gas swelling off it, announcing its death throes.
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He refused to discuss suspects, but made it clear that some one is in serious trouble .
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After serious trouble at Sham gigs, for example the one at the London School of Economics, they also deserted their followers.
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But whenever Clinton finds himself in serious trouble , he has dialed up Morris, 48.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deadly serious/dull/boring etc
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And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
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He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
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He was deadly serious and I knew it.
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His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
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It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
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Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
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The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
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The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
grim-faced/serious-faced etc
serious-minded/evil-minded etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the other people in the office seemed to have a very serious attitude towards their work.
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At school we had to read works by serious writers like Shakespeare and Milton.
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Ben's been involved in a serious car accident.
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Friends described him as a serious and thoughtful man.
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He's always serious , but he still makes me laugh.
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I must admit I find the serious newspapers rather boring.
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In the last two weeks, the situation has become more serious , with riots and strikes spreading across the country.
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JJ and Chuck seemed pretty serious .
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Laura was always very serious about her work.
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My brother is a serious golfer.
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Paying serious attention to public opinion is a recent phenomenon.
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That's a pretty serious Swiss Army knife.
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The band are only young, but they're very serious about their music.
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The boy was taken to hospital with serious head injuries.
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The climbers got into serious difficulties and had to be air-lifted to safety.
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The recent storms have caused serious damage.
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Violent crime is a serious and growing problem throughout the country.
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Violent crime is a serious problem in and around the capital.
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We'll give your point serious consideration.
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We both chuckled for a second, then got serious again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pregnancy undertaken at a time of serious illness or death of a family member will bear added stress.
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All were treated at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, five of them for serious injuries, a spokeswoman said.
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First, because markets are imperfect in various ways they will tolerate serious levels of inefficiency.
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I've just had a serious phone call.
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I have serious reservations about the power supply being installed inside the box, it really isn't safe enough.
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One scored a direct hit but, despite being showered with glass, there were no serious injuries.
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Stahl is serious , well educated, obedient, ambitious, and keeps his sense of humor out of sight.
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Unfortunately it was more serious than that.