Example sentences of "force [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |
| 2 | By forcing down on the upper , outside footrest the rider obtains exceptional feel for rear tyre grip . |
| 3 | You can feel the grip more and you can control the bike a lot better by forcing down on the peg when the rear steps out . ’ |
| 4 | Consequently ( Demski , 1976 and other authors ) it is inefficient for it to force on to the manager any general risk if this can be avoided , though the manager should still have some reward/penalty dependent upon his or her actions . |
| 5 | Frau Nordern , uncharacteristically meek , was forced on to the defensive . |
| 6 | Thousands of British workers would be forced on to the dole . |
| 7 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 8 | These and similar questions have been forced on to the theological agenda by the way in which the modern western world has grown . |
| 9 | Bret , more determined than ever to get to Earth to warn the authorities that Chen is a traitor ( he has Marc Cory 's tape ) , has to work with Steven on some rapid repairs to the space vessel when it is forced down onto the prison planet Desperus . |
| 10 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 11 | Each character must make an I test ( with a +10 bonus if the character specifically says he 's bracing himself ) or be forced down to the bottom of the stairwell . |
| 12 | Suck all the air out from under the plastic so it is forced down over the wooden former . |
| 13 | The check is forced down by the underside of the wrestplank as the action is pushed up the ramps , thus flexing the spring . |
| 14 | Usually enclosure was forced through at the instigation and will of the greater landowners . |
| 15 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 16 | The American critic W. Stephen Bush reflected on how the poor and lowly had only been tolerated in the theatre and all too often forced up into the gallery , but the movies had ‘ emancipated the gallery ’ and had ‘ wiped out for ever the odium and ridicule ’ that had always been shown towards its clientele . |
| 17 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 18 | My neck ached from being forced up by the arm of the settee . |
| 19 | The Government 's alternative is to reduce prices in manufacturing from the uncompetitive levels to which they are forced up by the exchange rate , by firing people and depressing the price of labour . |
| 20 | Braking was by means of the fixed gear transmission and an emergency stop could mean bashed knees as they were forced up against the dashboard and steering wheel . |
| 21 | Force back against the applied pressure |
| 22 | A MINER killed when he was crushed between two coal wagons was forced back down the pits to save his pension . |
| 23 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 24 | But with Anderton more at home in a wide midfield role , Spurs ' chief executive Terry Venables may be forced back into the transfer market — with Sheringham still their top target . |
| 25 | The orangs were gradually forced back into the mountain forests . |
| 26 | So , that very simple view of the mind fits with this an idea of anxiety as forced back into the unconscious and then changing , sorry , as , as libido being forced back into the unconscious and then changing into anxiety . |
| 27 | So , that very simple view of the mind fits with this an idea of anxiety as forced back into the unconscious and then changing , sorry , as , as libido being forced back into the unconscious and then changing into anxiety . |
| 28 | In consequence , the Committee is forced back upon the classical model , despite the consistent tendency elsewhere in its pages to accord to English an educational validity independent from and at least equal to classics . |
| 29 | At one point , they saw the sea receding from the near-by beaches ; sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquakes , so that quantities of sea creatures were left stranded . |
| 30 | By 28 October the Germans were forced back by the rising waters , many were drowned and masses of weapons were lost . |