Example sentences of "forced [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Un pezzo di cielo caduto in terra ’ — a little piece of heaven fallen on earth — is how the Neapolitans describe it — perhaps they are biased but , having sampled its delights , we think you 'll be forced to agree with every word . |
| 2 | Once you have accepted the offer and the position has been suitably documented , you will hardly ever be able to persuade a court or tribunal to upset it unless you can convince them that you were forced to agree as a result of economic duress . |
| 3 | As it is not possible to anticipate in advance all the infinitely variable circumstances which may arise in the future , we feel ourselves , albeit reluctantly , forced to agree to a limited extent with that concession . |
| 4 | As it is not possible to anticipate in advance all the infinitely variable circumstances which may arise in the future , we feel ourselves , albeit reluctantly , forced to agree to a limited extent with that concession . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Congress was forced to agree to a constitutional referendum in April which threatened to curtail its powers . |
| 6 | To keep the GPRA at the table , de Gaulle was forced to agree to a series of major concessions on points that he had long proclaimed non- negotiable : to negotiate solely with the FLN ; to drop the demand for a cease-fire before negotiations could get under way ; and to give up the Sahara to the embryonic Algerian republic . |
| 7 | Sadly , the forty-five-year-old 's rotund physique proved too much and he was forced to retire for an early bath . |
| 8 | The Dungannon scrum-half Blair was forced to retire with a leg injury and Gallagher came in from the wing to deputise in his regular position . |
| 9 | Hamilton , 26 , forced to retire with a knee injury , will have a match next season after Tony Mowbray 's benefit against Celtic . |
| 10 | McKenzie , the former IBF flyweight champion and ex-WBO bantamweight king , earned something of a hollow victory last night when Birmingham 's Peter Buckley was forced to retire with an injured shoulder at the end of the third round . |
| 11 | DEFENDER Terry Butcher swallowed up Luton 's attack — then confessed he could be forced to retire in the next few weeks . |
| 12 | JOHN Anderson , forced to retire from a full-time playing career because of an ankle injury , has been appointed player-manager of Berwick Rangers . |
| 13 | Sadly , the 1954 season saw Richards forced to retire from the saddle by injury ; so the 1953 Derby was his last ride in the race as well as his first victory in it . |
| 14 | Jimmy continued with the Palace after the War , but he was hurt in a London Challenge Cup-tie and was forced to retire from the game shortly afterwards . |
| 15 | He was forced to retire from the race with a split oil tank while in the lead . |
| 16 | Anderson has been forced to retire from the game through injury after ten years ' loyal service at St.James 's Park . |
| 17 | As might have been expected from his career , he outstayed his welcome and had to be forced to retire from the post — a position previously rewarded with a peerage , but which for him only merited a knighthood . |
| 18 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |
| 19 | However , under a series of major constitutional amendments introduced in April 1991 , all " senior parliamentarians " would be forced to retire by the end of the year [ see p. 38146 ] . |
| 20 | All " senior parliamentarians " ( i.e. those elected to mainland seats in the 1940s ) would be forced to retire before the election of a new 327-member National Assembly in late 1991 . |
| 21 | On a recent occasion , he was forced to shop in the local supermarket unaccompanied by his lovely wife Mary , who was keeping their children quiet by the exciting new pindown method . |
| 22 | In almost all cases , relatives were not officially informed of the executions and were forced to search for the victims ' bodies in mass graves . |
| 23 | However , Palestinians were forced to remain within the occupied territories so that the majority were effectively barred from their jobs in Israel . |
| 24 | In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other . |
| 25 | An alliance of northeastern domains led by Aizu had been forced to capitulate by the end of the year , and much of the country was little affected by the civil war . |
| 26 | The car was locked , and she was forced to sit on a low wall that surrounded the garden while she waited for David to return . |
| 27 | It was hell : The stroke victim forced to sit in a tea trolley . |
| 28 | Geoff was a sturdy wing-half with a refinement and vision of play which were perhaps a little too sophisticated for the Palace teams of his day , where we were forced to perform in the hurly-burly of the old 3rd Division South , and in the end his career was finished by a nasty knee injury sustained in mid-1952–53 . |
| 29 | My belayer has a leg span at least 18 inches wider than mine , so I was forced to cling to the merely vertical left wall . |
| 30 | In a third attack a driver was tied into his van loaded with explosives and was forced to drive to an Army base in Omagh , but the detonator failed to activate the device . |