Example sentences of "believe for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 2 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 3 | This is based on a true story that shocked Paris society when a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer were imprisoned after the former was ‘ accused of passing information to China after he fell in love with Mr Shi , whom he believed for 20 years to be a woman ’ . |
| 4 | I do n't believe for one minute that the majority of your readers are male , nor that the majority of riders are male . |
| 5 | I ca n't believe for one minute that Perry would really give it up to be a video director . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't believe for one minute I 'd have been the saviour , but I 'd have loved the chance to make a contribution in my country 's hour of need . |
| 7 | Well for most we try and work a Shorthorn for I think that the Shorthorn and the black bull is the true traditional cattle you know maybe and I do n't believe for one minute that the the cattle would be any better if you had a lot of Limousins or something else . |
| 8 | His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence . |
| 9 | And I do n't believe for one moment that you could have been ignorant of the fact that she was wealthy . |
| 10 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 13 | We believe for these reasons that : |
| 14 | A 53-year-old woman believed for 10 years that King George V was in love with her . |
| 15 | Others have become Christians at a particular moment in their lives but have believed for good reasons which have had mixed in with them other less solid motives for believing , so that their faith was never based on a strong , established conviction . |
| 16 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |