Example sentences of "had be forced [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Nora 's intense annoyance she had been forced to take a lodger who was involved in essential war work . |
| 2 | Amidst expressions of growing concern by environmentalists and politicians , the Japanese Energy Agency later admitted that engineers had been forced to use a back-up water sprinkler system after a valve had failed during the emergency shut-down process . |
| 3 | By the following week Nuttall , whose attitude to LSD was far from enthusiastic within the underground , had been forced to issue a denial of drug taking , as had the Pink Floyd , another target . |
| 4 | He had left the army as a major , but the clerks in the Horse Guards had determined that his majority was only brevet rank , not regimental , and so he had been forced to accept a lieutenant 's pension . |
| 5 | Following their release , a police officer was quoted by a local newspaper as saying that he had been forced to sign a statement implicating them in the murders . |
| 6 | He had been forced to sign a co-operation agreement in order to obtain a passport , although he had never actually collaborated . |
| 7 | The scheme had to be halted because the collector had been forced to make a charge . |