Example sentences of "[pers pn] must [not/n't] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece and Turkey will be asked to accept that the border between them must not be changed by force , and to agree to a set of ‘ confidence-building measures ’ — pull-backs from the border , inspectors on the ground , aerial reconnaissance — to help them trust each other . |
| 2 | Right , now I must n't be seen to be indicating in any way that er you do n't have to bother with it all , because they too put all out some excellent er booklets , brochures I 've got two thick pads of them which I 'll let you circulate . |
| 3 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 4 | He added that I must not be intimidated by his and Rozanov 's fluency ; I was really quite good . |
| 5 | You must not be excluded from the process of pastoral planning and decision making ’ . |
| 6 | We must not be misled by language . |
| 7 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
| 8 | Social phenomena have a disconcerting habit of climbing up to positions of eminence from which they conveniently repudiate their humble origins ; we must not be misled by this . |
| 9 | Je veux que les filles se tiennent les coudes … we must not be defeated by this misery . |
| 10 | We must not be panicked by short-term problems . ’ |
| 11 | As Christians we must not be intimidated by secularisation : if we are , we have nothing distinctive to say . |
| 12 | For , not only must these systems perform the required service in a timely and efficient manner , but also they must not be exposed to the threat of failure or interference . |
| 13 | In the past , some purists have said that all surface decoration applied to designed objects — all ornament , in other words — must be based on motifs which look flat , ie. they must not be drawn with a third dimension : you are allowed to make a pattern out of squares , so to speak , but not cubes . |
| 14 | Council spokesman Doug Allan said labels on any household chemical warned they must not be used in association with other products . |
| 15 | He must not be drawn into the sphere of those responsible for preventing accidents , for this would prejudice his independence and impartiality in the investigation of any subsequent accident . |
| 16 | Following a decision to arrest a suspect he must not be interviewed about the relevant offence except at a police station … 11.4 . |
| 17 | To be a man apart , he must not be distracted by the frivolities of the world and he must be educated . |
| 18 | ‘ He must not be allowed to glory in sinful pride and get away with it — ’ |
| 19 | I would like to finish by saying that Davis Cup matches always bring the best out of John McEnroe , whether in singles or doubles , and he must not be judged by his present tournament form . |
| 20 | There 's a littleness about it all : again it must not be seen as mere chance that we encounter Swift 's Lilliput on the first page of the novel . |
| 21 | It must not be prescribed without a careful history ; if the child 's real problem is not enuresis but psychogenic polydipsia , desmopressin may provoke water intoxication and hyponatraemic fits ( RAF Bell et al , personal communication ) . |
| 22 | About the withheld novel of mine she wrote nobly : ‘ It must not be spoiled by being adapted to the sensibilities of living persons . |
| 23 | As Dr Bennett , an expert on ovarian and uterine diseases , put it , because of the influence it would have on the character of English women ‘ it must not be used for virgins ’ . |
| 24 | A congregation must not be baffled by obscurity , but it must not be patronised by too much informality either . |
| 25 | It must not be controlled by another company or by " another company and persons connected with that other company " ( a BES concept ) . |
| 26 | In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else . |
| 27 | This view would appear to contain much sense ; but it must not be taken to the extreme . |
| 28 | It must not be construed in isolation , but in context , including replies to enquiries before contract and the surrounding circumstances . |
| 29 | Lloyd 's has put forward a constructive plan ; it must not be allowed to flounder on rate . |
| 30 | Occasionally the nature of a story is such that it must not be released before a certain date . |