Example sentences of "be force [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he confim that if unemployment figures were counted today on the same basis as they were in 1979 employment Ministers would be forced to stand at the Dispatch Box and admit that the number of economically active people who are unemployed in Great Britain today is 3.75 million ? |
| 2 | Engineers have been forced to operate at a snail 's pace to counter the danger of the bridge deteriorating further . |
| 3 | So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work . |
| 4 | Yet if the crackdown on the Press which is being demanded goes ahead , journalists would be working with both hands tied behind their backs — as opposed to the one-hand handicap they are forced to suffer at the moment . |
| 5 | Difficulties may arise because you are forced to look at the situation from two different viewpoints : |
| 6 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 7 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 8 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 9 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 10 | Bobby Anscombe , who had reacted badly when he had first heard of the deaf-aid idea , was forced to admit at the end that it might work . |
| 11 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 12 | She was forced to stand at the back , squashed between a thin jeans-clad youth with bony shoulders and sharp elbows and a red-faced man with a paunch . |