Example sentences of "we must [not/n't] be " in BNC.

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1 Yet , like the fox , we must not be upset
2 We must not be misled by language .
3 Nevertheless , we must not be so swiftly carried away by talk of the job-market as to forget our democratic belief in the value of education as a good in itself , for everyone ; nor our individualistic belief in the concept of educational need .
4 To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis .
5 But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter .
6 But we must not be confused by this : a wide variety of views had been held on the relations of popes and emperors , bishops and kings , in the tenth century ; a wide variety was still held in the twelfth .
7 As Christians we must not be intimidated by secularisation : if we are , we have nothing distinctive to say .
8 We realise that we must not be arrogant . ’
9 We must not be panicked by short-term problems . ’
10 Here we are assailed by imperatives : we must not be satisfied by collective explanations , social phenomena must be understood in individualist terms .
11 The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’
12 Social phenomena have a disconcerting habit of climbing up to positions of eminence from which they conveniently repudiate their humble origins ; we must not be misled by this .
13 Je veux que les filles se tiennent les coudes … we must not be defeated by this misery .
14 His interest in his subject carries over , first into drawing and painting because he enjoys this , then on into writing about it , because he is writing about something he is interested in and at first we must not be too concerned about his writing or his spelling or his grammar .
15 We must not be afraid .
16 However , having won our laurels we must not be tempted to rest on them .
17 There are changes in the world to which we must not be passive , or we shall overwhelmed by them , like children by an illness of which they have no comprehension .
18 For example , we have been thankful for the improvement in the quality of our air with the development of clean air zones , but we must not be complacent .
19 Even if it can be shown that many authorities will have elections at that time , we must not be naive again .
20 We are doing a good job but we must not be complacent .
21 As the Cloud-author might say , contemplative understanding comes from nowhere and is experienced as a gift : We must not be surprised if a man does not attain the heights of contemplation or experience its sweetness at the beginning of his Christian life .
22 As far as we know nobody has , but we must n't be afraid to talk about what worries us .
23 We must n't be here then .
24 Erm and then okay you , a bit later on you 'd say well yes w we , we need to be a bit careful about this erm we must n't be too hard on , on the middle peasant etcetera .
25 so we must n't feel hurt , I 'd probably feel hurt we must n't be er adversely react if we do n't like the answers that we get .
26 We must n't be late for our appointment . ’
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