Example sentences of "forced [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if the crackdown on the Press which is being demanded goes ahead , journalists would be working with both hands tied behind their backs — as opposed to the one-hand handicap they are forced to suffer at the moment . |
| 2 | Will he confim that if unemployment figures were counted today on the same basis as they were in 1979 employment Ministers would be forced to stand at the Dispatch Box and admit that the number of economically active people who are unemployed in Great Britain today is 3.75 million ? |
| 3 | She was forced to stand at the back , squashed between a thin jeans-clad youth with bony shoulders and sharp elbows and a red-faced man with a paunch . |
| 4 | The couple were also forced to sell at a loss , the nearby post office and general store , which were also found to be contaminated . |
| 5 | Catalytic converter technology would be forced to advance at a much improved rate , showing that F1 does indeed improve motoring in general . |
| 6 | The left-arm Ilott has a smooth , accelerating run-up and delivery and soon had Graham Thorpe caught behind , forced to play at a rising ball . |
| 7 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 8 | Difficulties may arise because you are forced to look at the situation from two different viewpoints : |
| 9 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 10 | Iron-hard fingers dug into Joseph 's thinning hair and pulled his head back until he was forced to look at the soft spoken man . |
| 11 | So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work . |
| 12 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 13 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 14 | The rain passed and we took off , only to be forced to land at the military airbase at Butterworth . |
| 15 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 16 | When you and your dog are forced to survive at a very basic level , you share the kind of experience that fastens and tightens a solid bond . |
| 17 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 18 | Britain was in the grip of a severe recession and by 1875 the Britannia Works were forced to close at an enormous loss which Albert Hill could not sustain . |
| 19 | Engineers have been forced to operate at a snail 's pace to counter the danger of the bridge deteriorating further . |
| 20 | Gould , forced to operate at the lower end of the transfer market as Coventry tighten their belts , can only gaze in wonder as Dalglish spends multi-millionaire Jack Walker 's money . |
| 21 | Bobby Anscombe , who had reacted badly when he had first heard of the deaf-aid idea , was forced to admit at the end that it might work . |