Example sentences of "forced [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern , uncharacteristically meek , was forced on to the defensive . |
| 2 | Thousands of British workers would be forced on to the dole . |
| 3 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 4 | These and similar questions have been forced on to the theological agenda by the way in which the modern western world has grown . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Suck all the air out from under the plastic so it is forced down over the wooden former . |
| 9 | The check is forced down by the underside of the wrestplank as the action is pushed up the ramps , thus flexing the spring . |
| 10 | Usually enclosure was forced through at the instigation and will of the greater landowners . |
| 11 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My neck ached from being forced up by the arm of the settee . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A MINER killed when he was crushed between two coal wagons was forced back down the pits to save his pension . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The orangs were gradually forced back into the mountain forests . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By 28 October the Germans were forced back by the rising waters , many were drowned and masses of weapons were lost . |
| 26 | The crimson rope-lights whipped forward effortlessly and the boy who had glared angrily at the Robemaker was forced back against the nearest furnace . |
| 27 | Of Conservative leaders in the twentieth century , A.J. Balfour ( 191 1 ) , Austen Chamberlain ( 1922 ) , Neville Chamberlain ( 1940 ) , Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( 1965 ) , and Mr Heath ( 1975 ) were all eventually forced out of the leadership because of the lack of party support in Parliament ; the last two as much because they had also lost general elections . |
| 28 | Having been forced out of the eastern fjords in endless rainswept misery we headed for Mývatn , Gođafoss and Akureyri , three attractions in the north of Iceland . |
| 29 | Like Paisley , Bradford was extremely conservative in theology and sufficiently opposed to the ecumenical movement to be forced out of the Irish Methodist ministry . |
| 30 | The Bank opened a ‘ helpline ’ to handle foreign exchange difficulties and institutions offered help to businesses forced out of the bomb-ravaged area in St Mary Axe , the heart of the shipping market . |