Example sentences of "forced [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 5 | Difficulties may arise because you are forced to look at the situation from two different viewpoints : |
| 6 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 7 | Iron-hard fingers dug into Joseph 's thinning hair and pulled his head back until he was forced to look at the soft spoken man . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 10 | The rain passed and we took off , only to be forced to land at the military airbase at Butterworth . |
| 11 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 12 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 13 | Gould , forced to operate at the lower end of the transfer market as Coventry tighten their belts , can only gaze in wonder as Dalglish spends multi-millionaire Jack Walker 's money . |
| 14 | 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 . |