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I'm not a professional teacher, and some of that was beyond me, but I would agree that in general everyday speech, one should not use "be" in the way we're discussing here. Nevertheless, I stand by my earlier post that it is "not wrong" in the right context, when used deliberately, as part of an archaic phrase.
Re: As the twig is bent, so grows the tree 
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