1.   But I must resist the temptation to treat so serious a matter with levity.

2.   I could have cried had our situation not been so serious.

3.   The financial constraints on wives are also not so serious, as an increasing proportion of Married women are in full-time work.

4.   When the land came on the Market, a dozen or so serious purchasers put in bids.

5.   Woodward had never known him to be so guarded, so serious.

6.   Other adjustments may be so serious as to amount to jettisoning a carefully worked-out position.

7.   But the magistrates chairman said the offence was so serious, they may have to send both men to jail.

8.   The driver told the court the break was so serious his arm was turned back to front.

9.   But it is so serious when children get it, and thousands of children have it...

10.   Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers says the situation is so serious he has contacted the airport to see what can be done.