Sentence examples for are to be serious from inspiring English sources
If the Texans are to be serious conference contenders, this will be a good gauge of where they stand.
The Lib Dems will need a "more centrist, disciplined formula in 2009-10 if they are to be serious players".
If England are to be serious Test contenders again, which in reality means one thing, they must win the series in New Zealand.
"If we are to be serious about addressing the issues the Mayor wants us to address, the city and state would have to help us deal with them.
The late polemicist ended up undermining his own argument for male superiority by explaining that "humour, if we are to be serious about it, arises from the ineluctable fact that we are all born into a losing struggle".
Giants General Manager Ernie Accorsi worked the phones through the morning and afternoon, filling holes that need to be plugged if the Giants are to be serious playoff contenders.
The tone Iphigene and Arthur Sulzberger set for their children was exceptionally demanding: all were to be serious and work hard.
Hershiser wasn't about to let on that Reuss was as close to being bilingual as he was to being serious.
