Example sentences of "that nobody [modal v] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Substitute made up his mind that nobody would be allowed to interfere . |
| 2 | Your sport is so dreary that nobody can be bothered to contest it . |
| 3 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 4 | Jane knew from bitter experience that love is a rare thing , so she felt very strongly that nothing should be allowed to come in its way , that nobody should be condemned to endure the rest of life with those two small , sad words : ‘ if only … . ’ |
| 5 | Does the right hon. Gentleman share with me the view that nobody should be allowed to bomb his way into any forthcoming general election campaign ? |
| 6 | Urgent repairs were carried out to secure the roof but the parish council has accepted the architect 's recommendation that nobody should be allowed into the building during severe weather . |
| 7 | ‘ I think that people ought to be upset , ’ he wrote ; ‘ I think that life is so important and , in its workings , so upsetting that nobody should be spared . ’ |
| 8 | I agree that nobody should be forced to breathe in other people 's cigarette smoke . |
| 9 | William of Dene , a monk based at Rochester , wrote in 1349 : ‘ To our great grief the plague carried off so vast a multitude of people of both sexes that nobody could be found who would bear the corpses to the grave . |
| 10 | The martial-law administrator , Crown Prince Saad , says that nobody will be expelled unless he or she is known to have collaborated with the Iraqis . |