Example sentences of "[pron] [is] believed [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This practice has coincided with the development of the cow disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE or ‘ mad cow disease ’ ) which is believed to affect one cow in every thousand .
2 The plans have already led to a number of Farnham Lane residents and others interested in protecting the track — which is believed to pre-date Roman times — to object to the reclassification scheme .
3 The major consequence of this bureaucratic inheritance is thus an imbalance between the power of bureaucracy and the power of other political institutions , an imbalance which is believed to have serious implications for further political development .
4 It is believed to contain explosive scenes — including Di 's alleged suicide bids , emotional turmoil and friendships with other men .
5 It is believed to span six manuscripts , being concentrated in two : the St Albans Psalter at Hildesheim Cathedral , and the Life and Miracles of St Edmund in the Pierpont Morgan Library , New York .
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