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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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And - because this is not the same thing - which aspects of life do we perceive as zero or nonzero sum?
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Capitalism may be perceived as unfair, and needing reform, but it is also perceived as incapable of fundamental transformation.
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Presumably, it is because businesses are perceived as active and affluent while families are perceived as passive and poor.
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A threat to any one of these is therefore perceived as threatening the others.
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Of course, moving on to the internet is perceived as risky.
often
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However, managerial approaches are often perceived to be less effective than physical action.
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The department or group that masterminds the change is often perceived to be the only one who can cope with it.
widely
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A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article.
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But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived .
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A second important barrier is that factoring is widely perceived to be expensive.
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The President was widely perceived , by this time, as having gone from blunder to blunder.
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Both Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock are widely perceived to be liabilities to their parties.
■ NOUN
need
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There was still a perceived need for a head of trading.
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It was based not on existing capabilities and resources, but rather on the perceived need for quick financial profit.
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But he had long perceived the need to shift focus at will, from one scale or type of history to another.
object
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Dominating such studies has been a tendency to perceive objects as being reflective in a relatively passive sense.
people
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Only the people perceived him for what he was-the occupant of the authentic center.
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Many older disabled people may also perceive themselves as ageing more rapidly than their non-disabled contemporaries.
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To what extent do the people in these countries perceive government as having an effect on them as individuals?
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I dated Courtney Love for a while and that was another education on how people perceive .
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Her interest in them as people was quickly perceived and reciprocated.
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Some people perceive moving together solely as a method for guides and their parties, and ignore it completely.
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We were concerned with whether people perceived government as having an effect on them, their families, and their communities.
problem
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Tawney perceived the same problem throughout his career of commentary on the education system.
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Teachers perceived that these problems had been cut roughly in half among ninth-graders.
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Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time.
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The user group perceives a problem , which is analysed, and potential solutions scrutinized.
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Sufferers constantly compare themselves with others, check their appearance, use clothing to conceal perceived problem and may resort to surgery.
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Signs of the disorder include picking at the skin, frequently touching the perceived problem area, excessive dieting or exercise.
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While most participants perceived the problem they differed somewhat over the matter of its resolution.
threat
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This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine.
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They damned the no-nonsense, authoritarian government, which peremptorily squashed even the smallest perceived threat to social peace.
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Events and situations that you perceive as threats or challenges are called stressors.
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And like all perceived threats , the dangers are inflated.
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The children targeted were a public eyesore, nuisance, or perceived threat .
world
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This exchange of energy explains how we perceive the world .
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And perceive his world , select what to recall from memory, then decide how to act?
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These relationships depend on how they see or perceive the world outside their inner world.
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People perceive the world as though it were guiding and constraining them.
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In the traditional view a person perceives the world around him and acts upon it to make it known to him.
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Men still define and control how people should perceive the world .
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She experimented with her new optic, shifting her patch to her right eye and perceiving the world through heat patterns.
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We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Although Jane thought her father seemed anxious and uneasy, Susan did not perceive any change in his looks or ways.
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Emma had perceived a certain bitterness in his tone.
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If they perceive that a military challenge threatens their country's interests, they will not hesitate to fight.
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The human eye is capable of perceiving thousands of insignificant details.
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The prime minister will only resign if he perceives there is no other way out of the crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.
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Empirical research indicates that young people perceive non-drinkers lacking in these qualities.
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However, Labour's urban policy can not be perceived as anything other than meagre.
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However, the role of facilitator can only be successful if others perceive training as important.
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Is it sufficient that he perceives a suspicion of bias, or must he perceive the higher hurdle of likelihood?
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So the primafacie plausible assumption that any creature able to perceive convexity would also be aware of connectedness is false.
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Some preventive strategies and vaccines are not used because of a perceived lack of cost-effectiveness.
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The commercial photograph is therefore not perceived as primarily documenting real life.