Example sentences of "been force [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Our courts have not yet been forced to give a direct ruling on this matter .
2 For a similar reason he has also been forced to cancel the long-cherished project of staging the British première of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann 's epic Die Soldaten — a production which would have focused international attention on Opera North at a point when it is clearly ready for such exposure .
3 But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time .
4 The carts in which the other members of the three households were riding had been forced to take a longer route to the spot .
5 The United States and its allies have been forced to defend the controversial plan , agreed at the weekend after a divisive debate , as a real recipe for ending the 14-month-old war .
6 He had been forced to undergo the full body-search and decontamination procedure .
7 The British government had been forced to undertake a massive air and sea movement of troops .
8 Or maybe she 's found out that someone saw her , so she 's been forced to spin a plausible tale . ’
9 I had finally been forced to apply a large pad of cotton wool held in place with an enormous length of three-inch bandage .
10 On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum .
11 Odd , he reflected , that now she had been forced to make a straight denial , he had lost his confidence .
12 One " secret witness " , subsequently identified as a German of Iraqi origin , recanted his testimony during the trial and claimed that he had been forced to make a false testimony under duress .
13 In the absence of more sophisticated data , the calculation of the numbers of married women and men living on low incomes has been forced to assume an equal division of income within the income unit .
14 So many fans are turning up to see Premier side CHAMDEN CITY these days that the club has been forced to buy the neighbouring supermarket .
15 Organisational culture has become a fashionable concept but has been forced to bear a heavier weight than it can sustain in explanations of organisational performance ( as the recently declining fortunes of some of the companies studied by Peters and Waterman illustrate ) .
16 Those linguists who have paid explicit attention to literacy , and they are as yet few , have been forced to question the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and to cast doubt on what I have termed the ‘ autonomous ’ model .
17 We have , therefore , been forced to increase the minimum sum insured to £6,000 ( Replacement as New policies ) and £4,500 ( all others ) **
18 In recent years , the UCC has been forced to reconsider the broader issues of communication both within its congregations and outside .
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