to be serious

The kid , just sat before the computer and played the happy farm . I asked him to be serious and he pretended to hear nothing.

However, the injury is not thought to be serious enough to rule him out of international duty next week.

So he said he wanted to hold off until he was prepared to be serious.

"They have to be serious and accept that they didn't see what was right in front of their eyes, " he said.

pope: Next time you bad-mouth me to one of my superiors , there are going to be serious consequences. Do I make myself clear, Captain?

Boys and girls, I'd like to be serious for a moment if I may. Spotlight please.

We have to be serious about lightweight vehicles, " he said. "

It's got to be serious if the New York Times puts a cover story of their February 17th Sunday magazine about play.

Officials said the injury does not appear to be serious.

That was a small thing but told me that I need to be serious to one thing.

I need you to be serious. -You've got a newspaper on your head.

Apparently, one will face many possibilities which could be worse, so mum asked me to be serious to every person.

But Ma said she was misread and there is no need to be serious in an entertainment program.

The one renewable-energy source it still seems to be serious about is biofuels.

A talk and presentation of 18-minutes length is long enough to be serious and short enough to hold people's attention.

After years of procrastination, China has at last shown itself to be serious about doing what is necessary to join the WTO.

If nonprofits are going to be serious about financial self-sufficiency, they must adopt more aggressive pricing policies.

To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Even when I was a child, pretending to be serious but in fact making jokes to cause troubles had been very easy for me.

Come on guys, knock it off. We need to be serious and figure out a strategy for the game tonight.

Yes, and I hope to engage you to be serious likewise.

Literary production is of game's nature, but the network creation is the game which most pretends to be serious.

The situation tends to be serious.

Moreover, both sides now claim in their different ways to be serious about tackling the deficit and the entitlement spending that drives it.

"China appears to be serious about going electric, " says Mike Dunne, motor analyst at JD Power, the consultancy, in Shanghai.

Reform of the drug agency may have begun to be serious.

"If Americans are going to be serious about losing weight, " says Popkin, "then they need something that's serious. "

For the G. O. P. plan turns out not to be serious at all.

And any time there is a distressed sale, there are likely to be serious problems with say the title or other legal issues.

"And now to be serious, our company is planned for an award channel, " said Xiao Wang.

Huang, said: "" I do not consider online worshipping to be serious enough.

For someone known to be serious, no-nonsense and cocky sometimes, the 32-year-old musician has a surprisingly soft and romantic side too.

Whatever your environment, you are strongly advised to be serious about security matters.

So it is hard for women to be serious about their work without being accused of toughness and competitiveness.

Realize he's being funny when when he needs to be serious.

Henry James Senior encouraged his children to be serious but not lugubrious, to be ambitious but unworldly.

Moreover, the teacher seemed to be serious and rigid and assigned a lot of homework and journal articles, which thoroughly exhausted me.

The bottom line is this: if you are serious about your Web site, you've got to be serious about keyword choice.

Different from Chinese, foreigners under the same circumstances tend to be serious.

Congress needs to be serious about deficit reduction, and it also needs to be serious about foreign policy.

Chris : Right, but then I'm tired at work. I can't do that. I have to be serious about things.

So, to be serious about food production starts here, in this country, now.

Please remember graduation thesis is meant to be serious.

The case for Huawei is that, Madam Sun's security links notwithstanding, it appears to be serious about increasing transparency.

We have to stay in focus, we have to be serious and if you want to change quickly, I think we have to work hard.

The injury isn't thought to be serious, and Neville is looking forward to.

To be serious, d'you agree or not?

These factors have proven to be serious barriers for widespread use of learning AI techniques.

He was really joking; he was only pretending to be serious.

"After all, it's generally accepted that it's best to be serious and low-key in the workplace, " he concluded.

I find it's actually getting really hard to be serious.

You want to be serious and you want also all the pleasures the world can give.

We have to be serious about our future.

Twitter is, after all, supposed to be serious.

Maybe you don't want to be serious with me?

Does it sound like you're joking when you want to be serious?

There is a time to be serious. Don't mix things.

We all need to earn our living, to be serious at one point or another, to solve difficult life questions and to be . . . adults.

meaning to be serious about one's work.

What is the different between male and female on sports? Do people in your country regard sports to be serious?

First of all, what does it mean to be serious?

This is what I need to become to be serious!

Do you want me to be serious?

He is used to be serious and very shy.

I have to be serious to start working from this day!

Even if we're just going through the moves, I want to be serious and do a good job.

To be serious, the most important point is your kid get the student visa first.

I knew my husband pretended to be serious because it is he who often does such thing and passes a glass of honey tea to me.

If you want to be serious about protecting the environment, you'll just have to keep the air conditioner turned off

to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously;

get real : to be serious, to become realistic