Example sentences of "forced [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Western Europe , unlike the US , physical distance , ignorance and the legacy of the war produced a strong reluctance on the part of many to interest themselves in Japan until forced to acknowledge her economic importance . |
| 2 | If , however , a whole series of such objects was encountered , the child might be forced to accommodate its basic concept of what a table was in order to take in these experiences . |
| 3 | THE GODFATHERS have been forced to cancel their British tour , which was due to start this week , after bassist Chris Coyne sprained his wrists fighting off two muggers . |
| 4 | As a consequence , Collor was forced to cancel his planned visit to the UN on Sept. 19-22 . |
| 5 | Even as these thoughts careered through Beth 's troubled mind , she was forced to compare her own marriage with that of her parents . |
| 6 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 7 | And this month it looked like losing any semblance of true commercial independence when its two biggest shareholders , Spain 's El Pais and Italy 's La Repubblica newspaper groups , said they may be forced to increase their joint stake to 50% by investing more money in it . |
| 8 | For this reason , we have been forced to increase our minimum sum insured to £17,500 . |
| 9 | Have you heard the one about the EastEnders stars who are forced to provide their own fags for smoking scenes ? |
| 10 | As this has been achieved with a style of football that owes little to romantic idealism , Charlton is not in trouble-free waters although even his most vigorous detractors are now inclined to take a pragmatic stance , appeased by success and forced to accept his widespread popularity . |
| 11 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | The unconventional methods might raise an eyebrow but Wimbledon are a club struggling on meagre gates and forever forced to sell their best players to survive . |
| 13 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 14 | Meanwhile former boxer Henry Cooper has been forced to sell his three Lonsdale belts after losing money as one of the Lloyds ' names who suffered in the insurance market collapse . |
| 15 | Lukács ( 1967 , p. 1 ) , a Hungarian Marxist who was forced to recant his political beliefs under the pressure of Stalinism , once argued that orthodox Marxism was defined exclusively by its method . |
| 16 | In the words of Gallopin and Berrera ( 1979 ) ; ‘ They ( the poor ) may be forced to destroy their own environment in attempts to delay their own destruction . ’ |
| 17 | The men were tormented by fleas and suffered agonies of thirst ; by the end they were forced to drink their own urine . |
| 18 | Police were forced to set him free with a warning — back to the parents who yesterday admitted he was out of control and said they wanted to see him prosecuted . |
| 19 | Without the existence of the SCCs the JAC would have been forced to create its own committee system at the level of the school ; as it was , the SCCs brought with them a network of contacts , an established structure , and a large number of volunteers , amounting to some 5,000 by 1914 . |
| 20 | The group , that only last week was forced to replace its sick chairman , John West with the chief executive Maurice Warren , pushed pre-tax profits up 4.5 per cent to £56 million for the six months to end-December compared to £54 million in the equivalent period in 1991 . |
| 21 | That follows a reform south of the Border in which Her Majesty 's school inspectorate was largely wound up , and schools forced to select their own inspectors from an approved list of private companies . |
| 22 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 23 | Earlier this year it was forced to restate its 1987 profits from £1.2m to £410,000 after an investigation by Ernst & Young discovered errors in the valuations of contracts at Sharp 's main business in Bradford . |
| 24 | Oscar-winner John Ford 's magnificent film of John Steinbeck 's classic novel about the gruelling journey of a family forced to leave their drought-stricken Oklahoma farm during the Depression and travel overland to California in search of work . |
| 25 | Practical support at the time at which young people raised in care are forced to leave their residential homes to help them settle into satisfactory new home environments , perhaps by helping them to get flats with friends or places in small half-way hostels with friends and supplying a realistic preparation for independent living , might avoid many difficulties . |
| 26 | But Seles was forced to leave her comfortable perch on the baseline and attack the net as she fought back to win 3–6 , 6–4 , 6–1 . |
| 27 | In times of flood the water vole moves upwards through its various tunnels until , in extreme conditions , it is forced to leave its underground refuge and resort to thick cover on the bank . |
| 28 | But one man forced to leave his loved ones behind was Bristol engineer and TA volunteer Bryan Stadden . |
| 29 | He had fled to London in 1828 after the Catholic emancipation bill had been passed , forced to leave his beloved Ireland because his Catholic fervour had led him to kill a Protestant in an argument during the celebrations . |
| 30 | The report identified how she was forced to quit her secretarial job and how she suffered a breakdown . |