1.   Such was the perceived risk of a patient developing cancer that prophylactic colectomy has been recommended.

2.   The use of reference selling in industrial marketing can be highly successful since it reduces the perceived risk for a potential buyer.

3.   Because of the perceived risks, prices for stock in many companies that disclosed their bidding plans have slipped.

4.   British beef is banned because of perceived risks linked to mad cow disease.

5.   But screening all pregnant women for diabetes, regardless of perceived risk, only can benefit the unborn child, Pettitt insisted.

6.   Investors use these ratings as a measure of perceived risk.

7.   Short-term interest rates, more sensitive to the election, have suffered about the perceived political risks.

8.   That spread, a measure of the perceived additional risk of owning Italian debt, fell nine basis points since yesterday.

9.   That indicates that the perceived risk of investing in Spain instead of Germany is declining.