1.   Her eyes were red-rimmed but the set of her mouth was as severe as that of a judge.

2.   The irony of his failure to act as a hero is as severe as anything in Conrad.

3.   The vertiginous episodes tend to grow less frequent and less severe as hearing loss progresses.

4.   Fewer episodes in recurrent pancreatitis are as severe as in episodes of the first occurrence of pancreatitis.

5.   The perceived social stigma of a tuberculosis diagnosis may be so severe as to cause people to avoid testing or treatment.

6.   In cases of abuse as severe as those assessed by Baldwin, the ascertainment of one child should enable early ascertainment of abuse to subsequent children.

7.   County council officials have already gone on record as saying the humps are not so severe as to pose a major problem for the buses.

8.   And he offered a partial excuse for the Chinese action, saying it was not as severe as previous roundups of dissidents before the arrival of important foreign visitors.

9.   As a result, he faces penalties as severe as expulsion from the union.

10.   Batterers who break restraining orders by stalking or harassing their victims can now be charged with felonies and draw sentences as severe as those who physically harm them.