Example sentences of "forced [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the aftermath of the Cuban revolution , the Communists , forced to contend with Castroite , Maoist and Trotskyist dissenters , all of whom advocated armed struggle , were at times uncertain how to respond to the rise of guerrilla activity in their own countries . |
| 2 | She as forced to retire through neck and back injuries in 1983 at the age of just 21 . |
| 3 | A 57-year-old man , who had been forced to retire from work because of chronic ill health , was admitted to hospital having made severe lacerations of his neck with a knife . |
| 4 | It was why he had been forced to retire from Delta . |
| 5 | Said Mr Marshall : ‘ Having been forced to retire from business I nevertheless retained my unbounded enthusiasm for work and community service . |
| 6 | Said Mr Marshall : ‘ Having been forced to retire from business I nevertheless retained my unbounded enthusiasm for work and community service . |
| 7 | Neither should he be forced to remain in hospital when he could be treated in the community . |
| 8 | Or rather , so magisterial was our progress that these less-solid citizens were being forced to weave in order to avoid our combined bulk . |
| 9 | The rebels were forced to sue for peace — and they received it , but only on condition that they too took the cross . |
| 10 | Hard up old folk will be forced to go without medicine because they can not afford it , Age Concern said today . |
| 11 | The [ father ] was forced to go to law to seek a residence order . |
| 12 | Last , I had to help the peasant and working-class boys who had been forced to go to university with no background education whatsoever . |
| 13 | Now next year something else might happen and somebody may be forced to go to court , if they can not go to court they can not get justice and they have to wait to see what happens . |
| 14 | Even if he was forced to go into hospital , what can we do after that admission ? |
| 15 | But , as he had anticipated , he was forced to lecture in order to finance his stay there . |
| 16 | Until yesterday , he and his closest confidante had been forced to meet in secret , at carefully-chosen safe houses — such as the high-walled home of Camilla 's sister , Annabel Elliot , at Stourpaine , Dorset , or her best friend Amanda Ward 's secluded Berkshire mansion . |
| 17 | It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise . |
| 18 | Traffic was heavy and drivers bad tempered so the white van was forced to jockey for position , the swarthy man stamping on brake or accelerator and his passenger bouncing off her precarious seat . |
| 19 | It is for these reasons that sedimentologists have been forced to work to death the few modern examples they have ( such as the poor old Bahamas Ranks ) for analogies with ancient sedimentation . |
| 20 | Forced to work at home , he developed techniques for preparing and collecting gases using what was to hand . |
| 21 | The regular doctor was called , but he was forced to work in conjunction with ‘ Grannie Patin ’ , a self-appointed cure-all from Mapledurham . |
| 22 | They are forced to work in isolation , even though it is riskier to do so . |
| 23 | One boy called Caddles was n't educated instead he was forced to work in chalk pits . |
| 24 | Hard-pressed church authorities are being forced to sell off Church House in St Hilda 's Terrace , traditionally used as the venue for one of the town 's biggest events , Whitby Folk Week . |
| 25 | There is a point of despair at which she is forced to choose between life and death , however unconscious that choice may be . |
| 26 | Can it help Third World countries as they are forced to choose between capitalism and Marxism both of which seem to have unattractive features ? |
| 27 | But the fumes seeped in until she was forced to gulp for air and she plunged into a deep and haunted sleep . |
| 28 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 29 | Mr Wakil denounced Mr Najibullah for cowardice in trying to flee and said he had been forced to resign as head of the ruling Watan ( Homeland ) Party . |
| 30 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |