Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] serious than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Recalling that Freeborn was recovering from nothing more serious than a successful operation for varicose veins , he approached the bed and said tentatively : |
| 4 | She agreed to dance with him because , she says , she knew she had nothing in mind but to dance ( line 15 – 16 ) : i.e. from her point of view it was all innocent and involved nothing more serious than dancing . |
| 5 | But we 've given him a thorough going over and I 'm sure it 's nothing more serious than a mild concussion . |
| 6 | Four other passages in the Old Testament refer to these events , and there are hints in two of them of something more serious than we seem to have here . |
| 7 | In January he began work on a portrait of the Princess of Wales and seeks to offer something more serious than their media image . |
| 8 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 9 | You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker . |
| 10 | No one had charged him with anything more serious than naivety and now he was one of the most successful fashion designers in New York . |
| 11 | ‘ Seriously , I ca n't think of anything more serious than Clèry-le-Grand . |
| 12 | In fact , the reason they had never become anything more serious than fumbles was because , compared with Georg , the boys seemed very young and silly . |