Example sentences of "[pron] shall [not/n't] be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I shall not be discussing here the methods that are applicable but shall present the solution to one particular problem arising in electron optics , that of two closely spaced conducting cylinders at different potentials ( Fig. 2.31 ) .
2 ‘ I hope that I shall not be taking up your time needlessly , ’ Catherine said , ‘ but something has been troubling me .
3 I shall not be missed now .
4 A recent anthology on spirituality has a quotation by Martin Buber from Rabbi Zusya when he said a short while before his death , " In the world to come I shall not be asked why were you not Moses ?
5 I hope that I shall not be retiring too soon , but if I see out the rest of my working life as a Member of the House , I shall retire with a pension that should look after me comfortably .
6 ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ I shall not be going back with you .
7 I will take care that you shall not be persecuted further . ’
8 ‘ Of course we shall not be staying here long , ’ Miss Beard said .
9 At the last judgement we shall not be asked how many books we have read but how we have lived .
10 We shall not be mistaken in seeing that as a reference to God the Holy Spirit .
11 We should stress that we shall not be attempting either complete biographies or conventional literary criticism of our chosen authors , most , if not all , of whom have already received considerable attention from both those points of view .
12 Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line .
13 ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence .
14 ‘ That may be true , but it has vigour enough to ensure that he shall not be hanged out of hand . ’
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