Example sentences of "no [indef pn] [modal v] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The women he assaulted would think no one would believe their word against that of a respected doctor . |
| 2 | ‘ The funny thing was , no one would believe him . |
| 3 | But even if he denied involvement , no one would believe that he had not arranged matters so that Sipotai was killed . |
| 4 | No one would believe this situation . |
| 5 | Told you all then and no one would believe me , so I changed my story . ’ |
| 6 | Durance said with quiet disdain : ‘ He made mad accusations , they were so mad no one would believe him . ’ |
| 7 | Even if we had a method which did not use extrapolation it would not be much use because no one would believe the result . |
| 8 | She only needed an evening gown like the one Dana wore in the magazine picture and no one would believe there were two of them . |
| 9 | No one would believe his fiction , but at least it was something they could all pretend to accept . |
| 10 | No one would believe a word of it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ No one would believe you , ’ said Andrus , but his face went pale . |
| 12 | No one would believe it ! ’ |
| 13 | The sense conveyed here of transition , of one age giving way to another , of an approaching end , a decadence , an Untergang — veering violently in its emotional response between nonchalance and terrible fear — is in some ways more disturbing than the resolutely futuristic or science fiction settings of the very talented Stefano Benni , who has been compared , not without reason , to Vonnegut ( Tani 1986 : 134–8 ) , or the sub-human dystopia created by the Sienese poet Attilio Lolini in his only novel to date , Morte sospesa ( Suspended death 1987 ) , in which a man stumbles through the aftermath of what Loloni describes as ‘ an ordinary apocalypse ’ , trying to confess to a horrible and long-forgotten crime of which no one will believe him guilty . |
| 14 | Planck is reported to have counselled the young Einstein in 1913 : ‘ As an older friend I must advise you against it ( the pursuit of the general theory of relativity ) , for in the first place you will not succeed ; and even if you do succeed no one will believe you . ’ |
| 15 | No one will believe this , and I know exactly what the town says about me , but I loved Iritnefert . |
| 16 | ‘ Once you start to work with me no one will believe we 're not lovers … ’ |
| 17 | These figures are in the report , we are an authority that has an extremely good record on nursery education and I hope that no one will believe the attempt to try and black the good record that the Conservative and that have the Conservatives had have in this area . |
| 18 | ‘ Appearances count for a great deal in this life , and if you appear tonight in an outfit like the ones you seem to favour then no one will believe our relationship is anything but a business one . ’ |
| 19 | No one can believe in righteousness without living righteously . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , no one can believe it , ’ I said placatingly , ‘ but why do you think Martinez took him on ? ’ |
| 21 | No one could believe that Everett Maltby had done the appalling things he had done . |
| 22 | ‘ No one could believe he got out of that . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , not exactly , ’ Miss Honey said , hesitating , ‘ You see , no one could believe that he would ever have done it . |
| 24 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
| 25 | She tried to calm him , insisting that no one could believe he was a murderer , and asked whether he had called his wife . |
| 26 | No one could believe this had happened to us at Lyneham especially after such a long period of accident-free flying |