Below you will find example sentences with "serious harm". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Serious Harm in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: harm
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "serious harm" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and prevent serious harm raise standards, assault causing serious harm to alanna, causing, cause and risk stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with bodily harm, serious injuries, serious condition, bodily harm and physical harm, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with serious harm
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Detention is necessary to protect the public from serious harm. (10 words)
Darragh Lyons pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm to Alanna Quinn Idris. (13 words)
Sylvester had denied meaning to kill or cause really serious harm and Gruber denied encouraging the violence. (17 words)
Titchener was jailed for five years and three months to run concurrently with his existing sentence, but the judge imposed an extended two-year licence period after concluding that he posed a significant risk of serious harm to members of the public. (42 words)
Mr Humphries said there was “no intent to cause really serious harm” as was reflected in Green’s guilty plea to section 20 wounding without intent to cause grievous bodily harm, rather than section 18 wounding with intent to cause GBH. (41 words)
There is a specific legal definition for whether an offender is classed as dangerous, which is whether they pose a 'significant risk to members of the public of serious harm, occasioned by the commission by the offender of further specified offences'. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
In October, the tribunal found the project would cause serious and irreversible harm to plant life, animal life or the natural environment, and serious harm to human health.
The libel duly followed, with the claim that Assange “risked very serious harm to our national security, to the benefit of our adversaries, and put named sources at grave risk – grave risk – of physical harm, and grave risk of detention”.
A man, 45, was arrested last Friday and charged with recklessly endangering life, intending serious harm and causing any harm.
Mr Humphries said there was “no intent to cause really serious harm” as was reflected in Green’s guilty plea to section 20 wounding without intent to cause grievous bodily harm, rather than section 18 wounding with intent to cause GBH.
The Dublin man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm, making threats to kill or cause serious harm and breach of a protection order on August 19th, 2022.
It would fail this if one or more hazards were present assessed as serious, posing a risk of serious harm or worse.
Two of the charges were amended from “operating while intoxicated causing serious harm” and reckless driving causing serious injuries” to “causing death” on those two charges after the second woman died of her injuries.
The charge was replaced with a more serious one under the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act for causing “serious harm” to the man.
The use of this legislation is not unusual, and has been used as recently as last week in order to prevent static assemblies causing serious disruption or serious harm.
Advocates argue that a change to the system is needed to protect the public from “serious harm,” while critics worry that the measure would penalize the poor.
As an independent oversight agency, the IIO investigates all officer-involved incidents that result in death or serious harm to determine if there was any wrongdoing.
Darragh Lyons pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm to Alanna Quinn Idris.
Detention is necessary to protect the public from serious harm.
It was claimed he could have left the scene and the evidence showed he intended to cause Mr Cook serious harm.
Recent Data Shows 'Stunning Increase' In Serious Harm Reports In Young Healthy Pilots: Army Lt. Col. Theresa Longzerohedge.
Sylvester had denied meaning to kill or cause really serious harm and Gruber denied encouraging the violence.
The gap between medical need and available evidence-based treatments creates vulnerability and an opportunity for both innovation and serious harm.
The measures support the FCA’s strategy to reduce and prevent serious harm, raise standards and promote competition.
There is a specific legal definition for whether an offender is classed as dangerous, which is whether they pose a 'significant risk to members of the public of serious harm, occasioned by the commission by the offender of further specified offences'.
Titchener was jailed for five years and three months to run concurrently with his existing sentence, but the judge imposed an extended two-year licence period after concluding that he posed a significant risk of serious harm to members of the public.