Example sentences of "[adv] considered to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 2 | The result was widely considered to be indicative of the government 's increasing unpopularity . |
| 3 | One of the main reasons for the Soviet failure to undermine Latin American reliance on Western imports is that Soviet industrial machinery and equipment is widely considered to be inferior in quality to its capitalist produced counterparts . |
| 4 | Although the charge carried a maximum penalty of one year 's imprisonment and a $100,000 fine , Barry 's sentence was widely considered to be harsh for a first offence . |
| 5 | An end to the worst bloodshed in recent years and the prospect of national peace and increased democracy was widely considered to be dependent on the successful outcome of three events taking place simultaneously . |
| 6 | It remained unclear to many analysts , however , whether the " no " vote was a rejection of demilitarization , or the expression of general uncertainty about the preservation of national sovereignty , given that Endara owed his installation in office to the December 1989 US military invasion of the country [ see pp. 37112-13 ] and that his government was widely considered to be subservient to US interests in the region . |
| 7 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 8 | Although not a great speaker , Gore was generally considered to be hard-working and conscientious and was renowned as an expert in arms control , defence and foreign policy matters . |
| 9 | C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains . |
| 10 | This was generally considered to be brilliant , although it seems to me that it was as much my father 's achievement as my own , and probably perceived unconsciously by him as such . |
| 11 | Road conditions in the county are generally considered to be inadequate and the construction of the remaining Maidstone-Ashford section of the M20 is programmed for completion in 1991 . |
| 12 | Although there is an operation for this purpose , called ventriculocordectomy , it is generally considered to be undesirable . |
| 13 | For soft X-ray attenuation is generally considered to be significant . |
| 14 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 15 | Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own . |
| 16 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 17 | Although the procedure is generally considered to be safe , complications related to cannulation , contrast injection , and sphincterotomy may occur , and include cholangitis , haemorrhage , perforation , and pancreatitis . |
| 18 | But in that there is common ground with Psychiatry : people who believe that they themselves are God are generally considered to be insane . |
| 19 | Then , again , and in this they point ahead to the invention of collage , the letters and numerals stress the material existence of the painting in another way : by applying to a canvas or sheet of paper letters , other pieces of paper or fragments of glass and tin — elements generally considered to be foreign to the technique of painting or drawing — the artist makes the spectator conscious of the canvas , panel or paper as a material object capable of receiving and supporting other objects . |
| 20 | These remarks reveal the irresistible appeal of the playful cat even in an era when felines were generally considered to be evil and dangerous , and were being widely persecuted . |
| 21 | It will be seen that much Christian teaching on love is reflected in what has been outlined above , and that Gandhi 's teaching concerning non-possession goes beyond what is normally considered to be involved in the vow of poverty in certain Christian orders . |
| 22 | People are normally considered to be risk-averse over amounts of the order of magnitude of their incomes . |
| 23 | Because erm , the urban sector is normally considered to be capital intensive a sector , and the rural area in L D Cs are considered more labour intensive , and so erm , obviously when you get an influx of labour , and changes to the capital to labour ratio |
| 24 | The recommendations of the Warnock Report and the legislation of the 1981 Education Act are significant in the educational placement of visually handicapped pupils , especially since the presence of visual impairments is no longer considered to be sufficient reason for special school placement nor is special school placement an inevitable consequence of the ascertainment of visual impairment . |
| 25 | Despite what are usually considered to be marginal conditions in the Highlands , Nevis Range , the operators at Aonach Mor , and Glenshee have both invested considerable sums in the new equipment . |
| 26 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 27 | In general , two or three house hunting visits are allowed by most firms and around three to six days are usually considered to be adequate time to find housing . |
| 28 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 29 | Even if you have not lived together for several years , from a national insurance point of view you are still considered to be married . |
| 30 | In many developing countries ‘ agriculture ’ and ‘ farming ’ are still considered to be separate subjects ; the tilling of the soil and animal management have not been integrated . |