Example sentences of "it must not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 About the withheld novel of mine she wrote nobly : ‘ It must not be spoiled by being adapted to the sensibilities of living persons .
4 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 ’ .
5 A congregation must not be baffled by obscurity , but it must not be patronised by too much informality either .
6 It must not be controlled by another company or by " another company and persons connected with that other company " ( a BES concept ) .
7 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 .
8 This view would appear to contain much sense ; but it must not be taken to the extreme .
9 It must not be construed in isolation , but in context , including replies to enquiries before contract and the surrounding circumstances .
10 Lloyd 's has put forward a constructive plan ; it must not be allowed to flounder on rate .
11 Occasionally the nature of a story is such that it must not be released before a certain date .
12 Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker .
13 It must not be left in the hire care unattended .
14 He was careful not to make the connection too often in his mind , the idea was bizarre , better not to believe it , certainly it must n't be spoken of , but at moments such as now he could n't push it away — and did n't want to .
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