Example sentences of "[be] [adv] perceived as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans have a special affinity for dolphins , which are widely perceived as having a special degree of intelligence . |
| 2 | ‘ The engineer and the manufacturer in Britain are still perceived as having dirty hands , ’ says Andrew Robb , finance director of Pilkington , the Merseyside-based glass-maker . |
| 3 | Since then , however , the LDP had recovered ground under the steady leadership of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , while the opposition had been increasingly perceived as divided and as having little policy other than opposing the government . |
| 4 | One of the key themes of the campaign was the degree to which the country 's recently re-established democratic process would be safe in the hands of any of the traditional party leaders , all of whom were widely perceived as personifying a political culture traditionally steeped in patronage and money . |
| 5 | Whereas in ( 1 ) B's talk is received seriously — without laughter , in fact with silence followed by supportive agreements — in ( 2 ) , V 's talk is met with laughter and is clearly perceived as joking . |
| 6 | Gilles Deleuze describes ‘ organ-speech ’ as a result of the materialization of language which is then perceived as infiltrating the body . |
| 7 | The development of databases is sometimes perceived as having three generations : |
| 8 | A threat to any one of these is therefore perceived as threatening the others . |
| 9 | For Mrs Thatcher and her government , antagonism towards the miners in part reflected a desire for revenge against the union which was widely perceived as precipitating the political crisis which led to the downfall of a previous Conservative government , led by Edward Heath , in 1974 . |
| 10 | Originally scheduled for November 1991 , the tour had been postponed following opinion surveys which suggested that Bush was widely perceived as concentrating too much on foreign affairs and too little on domestic considerations . |
| 11 | Although the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl denied ever promising a 1:1 rate during the election campaign [ see p. 37301 ] , he was widely perceived as having breached an election promise . |