Example sentences of "it is widely believed [that] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is widely believed that the mines also produced gold which was used in the crowns of Scotland 's kings .
2 As Ives ( 1987 ) has discussed , it is widely believed that the situation in the Himalaya will reach crisis proportions by the turn of the century , affecting not only that region but also downstream and deltaic areas that are in receipt of drainage from the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers .
3 It is widely believed that the vast luminosity ( up to 10 45 ergs -1 ) arising from a very compact volume ( a light-year or less ) in quasars and Seyfert galaxies are powered by black holes with masses of the order of 10 9 M and ; , and that such black holes should reside in the nuclei of many , perhaps most galaxies as luminous as the Milky Way .
4 Although it is widely believed that the Spanish encountered an almost pristine landscape in AD 1521 ( refs 1–3 ) , some archival and palaeolimnological studies have suggested that extensive land clearance began before European contact , during the Preclassic to Postclassic periods .
5 It is widely believed that the case presented by the police to the prosecutor and , through him , to court , consists purely of facts or evidence .
6 It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has a rising crime wave , and crime is thought to be more widespread in the United Kingdom than in other western countries .
7 It is widely believed that the United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of crime , whereas it has one of the lowest in the western world .
8 It is widely believed that the conservatism of the farm worker and his attachment to traditional styles obliged manufacturers to continue to produce the same wide range of designs as had been produced by local smiths in the pre-industrial period .
9 It is widely believed that the British clothing industry is in a terminal state of decline due to lack of international competitiveness .
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