Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That should not long be delayed . |
| 2 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 3 | Some saw it as a policy platform for the conclave that could not long be delayed . |
| 4 | For if the majority of the great nobility joined Henry V on his first expedition to France in 1415 , such support could not long be maintained . |
| 5 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 6 | As early as 1488–89 , an Act dealing with the Isle of Wight declared that it had been made desolate by being turned into pasture , and that it could not long be defended from the King 's enemies . |
| 7 | Writing to Ellen , she could not help be bitter , remarking : — all life seems a trap again Ellen and I expect it has too often seemed so to you and will yet . |
| 8 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 9 | They had not come to rescue her , but the child whom Phoebe would not let be born . |
| 10 | Finally , although your readers will not doubt be aware the 2807 and 4277 share the same wheel arrangement and the same wheel diameter ( 4′8½″ on the driving wheels ) the rod sizes are different . |
| 11 | Without these , military power can not long be supported Duncan Sandys , 1957 Defence White Paper . |
| 12 | A mundane pilgrimage , maybe , but the only kind of which I am capable , and one which satisfies those ‘ two thirsts that can not long be neglected if all our being is not to dry up : I mean loving and admiring ’ . |