Example sentences of "force to stand [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Names like Rommel , Auchinleck , El Alamein sounded as common to the ear as Smith , Jones and Robinson ; yet Joe had the feeling that he was being forced to stand on the sidelines and watch a game in which he had not the slightest interest . |
| 4 | Because of the Golden Share , Murdoch and any others would be forced to stand on the sidelines gnashing their teeth as News on Sunday forged ahead , slicing huge swathes off the readership of their titles . |
| 5 | As she looked around she felt a twinge of sadness that in a carriage where 70 per cent of the commuters were men there were five women forced to stand in the aisle . |
| 6 | Hocazade was reconciled with his father , for whom he subsequently gave a great feast ; so great was the press of notables , however , that his brothers were forced to stand among the servants . |