Example sentences of "must not be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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61 Reasonable steps must be taken to ensure that the investor understands the purpose of the call ( which must not be disguised ) and the kind of investments or investment services which are to be discussed .
62 Obviously this needs to be done without undue pressure ; hammering is out of the question , and the stakes must not be broken .
63 That she is a steady worker ( much emphasis must not be placed on this as the contrary is also alleged[ ! ] ) and nimble at mechanical processes such as folding and collecting sheets .
64 Servicemen must not be asked to fight and risk their lives equipped with inferior weapons ; and yet , they will have too few weapons if the costs are too high .
65 He must not be asked to perform tasks in any area where an error might jeopardize the success of our forthcoming conference . ’
66 This public duty must not be influenced by private and personal interests .
67 We are in the presence of very great evil , my friends , and the little grey cells must not be denied . ’
68 The normal response to that suggestion is that children in rural schools must not be denied the educational opportunities which are open to other children .
69 More difficult is conveying that injections must be self-administered and must not be missed .
70 I know that a lot of youngsters gain their first experience of shooting with bolting rabbits but I do think that so much preparatory work is necessary to create the opportunity for the rabbits to be killed that the chance must not be missed .
71 Professor Davie 's further remarks ( on pp. 164 and 165 of the same book ) must not be missed ; they seem to me one of the high points of modern appreciation of Wordsworth 's greatness .
72 On the other side were many who voiced optimism and trust in the Holy Spirit rather than defensiveness , saw more need for encouragement than for condemnations , and were convinced that there was a new opportunity for liturgical and pastoral use of the Bible which must not be missed .
73 They may be regarded as having been , at central government level , ideologically inspired : that is , undertaken either on the view that the possibility of rescuing a failed , conventionally organised enterprise would serve to promote Socialism in a neo-Marxist version of it absolutely opposed to Capitalism , and that the occasion was one which must not be missed even though the odds against success were heavy ; or in a spirit of uncritical idealism , sure that the ideology guaranteed success , that the gloomy appraisal was therefore wrong and the distinction between co-operative means and socialist ends a carping irrelevance .
74 In all respects these are ordinary means of sustaining life and must not be withheld . ’
75 The Community Care Support Force ( see pages 18–19 ) has completed its mission and left a legacy that difficult issues must not be fudged and that no one agency or interest group will get far alone .
76 About the withheld novel of mine she wrote nobly : ‘ It must not be spoiled by being adapted to the sensibilities of living persons .
77 Insight is like that : the quality of attentiveness must not be spoilt by our getting in the way of it — by the wrong kind of effort or by anxiety and feelings of self-doubt .
78 In a sense , the shunt element behaves in its stabilising work rather as a Zener diode behaves , but the analogy must not be pressed too far .
79 Therefore the laudable desire to contextualise the message must not be pressed to provide a carte blanche advocacy of every aspect of a particular culture .
80 Comparisons such as these must not be pressed too far .
81 The point must not be pressed too far , since the statute obviously has a broad purpose ( or , to speak more precisely , those who collaborated in framing and passing the statute had a broad purpose ) which is expressed in the words .
82 Your intruder alarm must not be altered or replaced without our prior written agreement .
83 On this issue indeed the comparison with Eliot is inescapable , Eliot very early learned and bowed to the English rule that social amenity must not be disturbed — alike in his life-style and , after Poems 1920 , in his poetic style also , he observed this rule punctiliously .
84 In time a limit may be reached , not because of the depth of the pit but because it becomes too wide and approaches land that must not be disturbed .
85 PAMELA : Tell her I am sick-a-bed , I 'm gone out , I 'm dying , and must not be disturbed … anything !
86 The dumping of contaminants ‘ in situ ’ must be ended and the most sensitive areas of seabed must not be disturbed by exploration .
87 I must not be misunderstood .
88 Surely this of all concepts , and especially in the context of the homoerotic , must not be essentialized .
89 The load on the UPS has a maximum rating , typically around 250 to 500 watts for a PC , and this must not be exceeded or the UPS will be overloaded .
90 This hypothesis must not be pushed too far , because one of the main Saharan ergs is the Libyan Sand Sea on the borders between Egypt and Libya in the arid heart of the Sahara .
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