Example sentences of "were perceived to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dukakis on defence and crime and Kinnock on defence and the economy were perceived to be weak . |
| 2 | For the social services department ( SSD ) deficiencies in the level , range , and quality of services in the community were perceived to be the crucial problem to which CMHTs potentially afforded a solution . |
| 3 | All schools could identify additional resources , ( for instance , computers , a music laboratory , enhanced INSET , staff ) that had been purchased and which were perceived to be available entirely as a result of devolution . |
| 4 | In addition they were perceived to be inefficient , measured in terms of productivity , and also unprofitable , causing a drain on public finances . |
| 5 | In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security . |
| 6 | Most of the men who wished to keep the age of consent at 12 and 13 accepted as a matter of course an outlook in which young girls from the working class were perceived to be easy sexual targets . |
| 7 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 8 | Thus by the late 1950s both the Comintern version of Marxism-Leninism and a native Marxist-based gradualist model were perceived to be sterile . |
| 9 | Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time . |
| 10 | There are numerous records of actions being taken against plays which were considered slanderous to nobles or which were perceived to be in political opposition to government policy , such as Middleton 's cause célèbre , A Game of Chess , which opposed James 's accommodating attitude towards Spain and attracted the protest of the Spanish ambassador . |
| 11 | Both women , he said , were perceived to be living fairy tale lives when privately , they were having to come to terms with intense personal pressures . |
| 12 | Relations improved with Egypt and Syria , while Yemen and Jordan , both of which were perceived to be sympathetic to Iraq [ see pp. 37728 ; 37927 ] , became increasingly marginalized ; in addition full diplomatic relations were re-established with the Soviet Union [ see below ] . |
| 13 | Industrialists heading soon-to-be privatized enterprises , while supporting calls to relax monetary policy , could not concur with the calls for strikes and for a new government , which parliamentarians and trades union leaders were perceived to be making for their own political motives . |
| 14 | The aim during the Tory Reaction was to use the full weight of the law against those who were perceived to be enemies of the Church and State . |