Example sentences of "forced [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She continued angrily , ‘ I was forced to agree to this marriage just as much as you were . |
| 2 | Passers-by sneak Beejay sympathetic smiles as he is forced to contend with this additional assault on his ears . |
| 3 | Some women who started work after their children had grown up felt the need to continue working in order to obtain a reasonable pension on retirement , yet they were forced to retire at 60 , because that is the age when they become entitled to a state and/or occupational pension . |
| 4 | Even though his period in Calcutta was extremely brief , for he was forced to retire in 1906 after a breakdown , he became celebrated in the West and in India for ‘ preaching ’ the greatness of Indian art with fervour that bordered on fanaticism . |
| 5 | Wing-half John was forced to retire from professional soccer with a back injury after a distinguished career with Luton , for whom he played 218 games from 1953–1962 , scoring 16 goals , and then Bournemouth . |
| 6 | A third revolt by Duzme Mustafa in 829/1425–6 led to the replacement of Ibrahim Pasa as Grand Vezir by Molla Fenari 's enemy , Haci Ivaz Pasa , as a result of which Molla Fenari and his elder son , Mehmed Sah , were forced to retire from public life . |
| 7 | Senna , forced to retire after 17 laps with electrical problems which caused his engine to cut out , had nothing to say . |
| 8 | It made its debut at the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring with Jack behind the wheel , but he was forced to retire after nine laps . |
| 9 | Prost 's victory lifted him to 47 points at the head of the drivers ' championship while Brazilian Ayrton Senna , the McLaren driver who was forced to retire after running second until the closing laps , remains second in the title race with 42 points . |
| 10 | Neill , the only Portsmouth player to have experienced the atmosphere of an FA Cup Final — he was a Queens Park Rangers substitute 10 years ago — played a long pass behind a tired defence that had been forced to cope with extra pressure following Liverpool 's reduction to 10 men , when McManaman departed on a stretcher . |
| 11 | Peter Williams had the sort of nice neat blazer that everyone can remember being forced to wear at some traumatic stage in their lives , while the commentators and summarisers , who all sounded about 70 , had a comfortingly narrow command of the English language . |
| 12 | A liquid , forced to flow in this way by a shearing force σ , experiences a viscous resistance expressed by where v is the velocity of flow along a tube of radius x , so that is the velocity gradient or shear rate γ , and η is the viscosity coefficient of the liquid . |
| 13 | Colin Moorfields , 41 , was forced to drive for two hours after the 28-year-old , armed with a 6in knife , said : ‘ Mess up and I will slit your throat and then mine . |
| 14 | Breweries , bakeries and many other businesses will be forced to invest in new , cleaner machinery . |
| 15 | He said the increase to £4.25 would affect about half the population and could lead to some hard-up patients being forced to go without certain treatments . |
| 16 | Director Chris Common said : ‘ We are concerned that older people will be forced to go without necessary medication because of inability to pay ’ . |
| 17 | Gough could always write back to the Scottish League — as he is obliged to do this week in response to the management committee 's request for his views on United 's complaint over Ferguson — and point out that being forced to go to such lengths to contain his opponent proves he was correct to covet the forward for his team . |
| 18 | The other person is turned from the door , and either has no legal advice at all or is forced to go to another lawyer . |
| 19 | Desperate holiday-makers are forced to go to local bureaux de change , where they get very poor rates for sterling . |
| 20 | Unless this ruling was overturned by a higher court , the state would either have to enact a new electoral law or would be forced to wait until 1994 ( the date upon which Heinz 's term would have been completed ) to elect a successor to Heinz . |
| 21 | Chester-le-Street , who have games in hand in third place , are forced to draft in new keeper Doug Pettit for their game at Norton because regular John Caffrey is injured for the rest of the season . |
| 22 | Some schools are so overburdened by all this activity that they have been forced to draft in extra staff to deal with the more mundane aspects of education — like teaching children . |
| 23 | Customers may be forced to borrow from inefficient banks or other financial institutions , probably charging higher interest rates . |
| 24 | Many governments have also been forced to concentrate on short-term economic crisis management to the detriment of longer-term environmental protection measures . |
| 25 | In addition , says Paul Bray , the makers are being forced to concentrate on ever-better specifications |
| 26 | Moreover the number of universities in Joseph 's dominions had by 1790 been reduced to a mere three ( Vienna , Louvain and Pest ) and these had been forced to concentrate on such useful subjects as medicine and law and virtually to end the teaching of luxury ones such as foreign languages . |
| 27 | If all else fails , you may be forced to squat in unoccupied property . |
| 28 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 29 | In the relatively short period of time prior to the Industrial Revolution the function of the prison can be seen as related directly to the needs of the economy , in that labour was forced to work on specific projects to overcome labour shortages . |
| 30 | Later in India and Africa , entire villages were rounded up and forced to work for minimal wages set by foreign officials . |