Example sentences of "[is] [prep] be [verb] seriously " in BNC.
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| 1 | If hypnosis in any form is to be taken seriously , then it is even more vital that hypnotic regression is treated with due respect . |
| 2 | Failure to do so constitutes an invasion of personality which the state is not entitled to commit if its claim to respect individual rights is to be taken seriously . |
| 3 | But of course , if Watson 's The Double Helix is to be taken seriously , competitiveness has been the norm since 1953 . |
| 4 | Ultimately , if a journal editor is to be a gatekeeper of scientific knowledge , procedures must be in place to assure both readers and authors that their work is to be taken seriously . |
| 5 | If the BMA is to be taken seriously then it should espouse more worthy causes that have some prospect of success rather than politically correct harebrained schemes such as this , which is as likely to bear fruit as ‘ pigs are to fly , ’ to quote the two speakers . |
| 6 | For if the principle of indiscernibles is to be taken seriously , then there can be no other way of telling two monads apart except through their qualities . |
| 7 | If this is to be taken seriously as meaning that through learning language , rather than geography , history or other social sciences , pupils acquire better understanding of foreign cultures , then teachers need knowledge of the relationship between language and cultural learning . |
| 8 | If a woman is to be taken seriously she must either be past the menopause or very plain , preferably both . |
| 9 | The purpose of the project is to spell out the explicit philosophy of power , equality , and materiality expressed by the Piaroa in cosmology , shamanic exegesis of it , and in daily rhetoric , to relate this philosophy to everyday practice , and to define in which ways the Piaroa rhetoric of equality and individualism is to be taken seriously as a fact of daily life . |
| 10 | The word meaning is to be taken seriously here . |
| 11 | At this stage , most if not all expert systems can not be used by naive users ; a reasonable general knowledge of the area of expertise covered by the system ( its knowledge domain ) is essential if the output produced is to be taken seriously , just as the scope , limitations and difficulties presented by a new piece of legislation can only be predicted with any certainty by a lawyer and , even then , not always correctly . |