Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry had not wanted to bring Louisa on the expedition but she had cried to go , and the adults insisted that she not be left behind . |
| 2 | Of his specific criticisms , he cautioned , ‘ It 's absolutely vital that they not be taken out of context ’ and that every ‘ significant ’ matter was ‘ satisfactorily resolved ’ and that he consistently blessed IBM with clean audit opinions . |
| 3 | the will and intelligence of the victim be disengaged from the projects of resistance and escape but that they not be simply broken or destroyed . |
| 4 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |
| 5 | Yet both original film and play were widely unavailable until the early Eighties , due to copyright problems and the author 's insistence ( after a public outcry had kept the play , completed in 1897 , off the Austrian stage until 1921 ) that it not be produced for fear of his intentions being betrayed . |
| 6 | Despite Alcuin 's plea to Aethelheard that he not be stripped of his pallium during his lifetime , it was only as bishop that Hygeberht attended the council of Chelsea in 801 ( CS 302 : S 158 ) and as abbot , that of Clofesho in 803 . |
| 7 | Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning . |
| 8 | Moderator four five nine Moderator I welcome the number two in the deliverance but I would make a plea to the er panel that this leaflet be a very simple leaflet and it not be brief , but in fact be quite lengthy . |