Example sentences of "believe to be most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the last demurred , and rightly or wrongly Anselm overrode the objectors , told the monks of Bec to elect as abbot the man whom he believed to be most fitted , and finally accepted the archbishopric . |
| 2 | Emerson rejects convention and in doing so stands for all the values that Forster believed to be most important — authenticity and truth . |
| 3 | Those four orientations , listed not in the order provided by Dahl but in the order I believe to be most significant to an understanding to British political culture , are toward ( 1 ) problem-solving , ( 2 ) the political system , ( 3 ) cooperation and individuality , and ( 4 ) other people . |
| 4 | Though often believed to be most beneficial for those who wish to give up smoking or to lose weight , hypnotherapy has , in fact , a multitude of uses — ranging from the comparatively minor ( for example , breaking the nail-biting habit ) through dealing with phobias , migraine , pre-menstrual problems and so on , to the severe , such as the physical results of a stroke , the symptoms of multiple sclerosis or some cases of cancer . |
| 5 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |