Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] not [be] give " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
2 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
3 | Within a few weeks the Minister Mrs Hedy d'Ancona , who is on record as saying that some of the works are in such poor condition that they can not be given away without loss of face , will come forward with a number of proposals . |
4 | Branson was fully aware that even if the Americans decided to grant permission , it was likely that it would not be given until a day or two before the flight — retaliatory treatment for the way the British government had delayed until the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute permission for People Express to fly into Britain . |
5 | One merely has to read its wording to see that it can not be given any sensible meaning in a context such as the present , where the mind and will of the defendants are also treated in law as the mind and will of ‘ the other . ’ |
6 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |