1.   Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children.

2.   Life was getting very serious for helicopter pilots.

3.   The judge said the offence was too serious for a non-custodial sentence.

4.   The problem is especially serious for an episodic memory, which is a unique category that ties together a series of elements.

5.   Mallachy could be too damn serious for fun.

6.   The implications of indirect copying are serious for the software industry and care must be taken to avoid such a claim.

7.   Far more serious for de Gaulle and the CFLN was the prospect of their exclusion from Allied planning for the forthcoming invasion of France.

8.   Equally serious for the historian is the knowledge that the decision takers are continually looking at virtual documents which are only infrequently captured for hard or electronic copy.

9.   But things were very serious for the FBI team stationed outside the Rodeo.

10.   It was far more serious for the mostly poor people who live in the low-lying coastal areas.