Example sentences of "[been] forced " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule of law in Sri Lanka has been seriously eroded : in the past three years , over a dozen lawyers have been murdered because of their involvement with human rights cases and at least 20 others have been forced to flee the country after receiving death threats . |
| 2 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 3 | If Nathan Cohen — some years older than his wife — had known the dangers of battle as a young lieutenant in the army , then Masha Cohen had known its civilian equivalent , what it was like to have been humiliated , to have lost everything , and to have been forced to flee from one 's country and kindred . |
| 4 | Throughout this miserable summer , Scottish climbers have been forced to climb in places like Malham Cove : hardly the place to nourish the soul ( and the routes are a bit hard ! ) . |
| 5 | Going home to Europe , Mr Eliot has had to understand Europe ; he could not quite sufficiently be the European simply to feel that he was there ; he has been forced to envisage it with a reminiscent philosophy . |
| 6 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 7 | The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe . |
| 8 | The Leeds said the plan to close 60 of its 481 branches across the country was part of its long-term strategy and had not been forced on it by the housing recession . |
| 9 | We have met the terms of the loan , ’ Mr Cross said , answering widespread speculation that Mr Bond , whose commercial empire is troubled , had been forced to hand over the painting to Sotheby 's for resale . |
| 10 | The reformist politician has already been forced to make compromises in the new party programme he has drafted , and has even had to put up with seeing the dreaded word ‘ Marxism ’ inserted into the version he will be proposing to the delegates today . |
| 11 | They have been forced to make two late changes . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've been forced , have n't they ? |
| 13 | The UNHCR has been forced to abandon them , and no one knows what has become of their inhabitants . |
| 14 | As you can see , if West had led his last spade dummy would have been forced to ruff and successfully play the ace of clubs . |
| 15 | If either had applied promptly , the appellant would have brought into the action at an earlier stage and the defendant would , in all probability , have been forced to give consideration then to the making of a claim to contribution in respect of his liability , if proved , to the plaintiff . |
| 16 | She would not dispute the fact that , by contrast , the Bundesbank is very good indeed at it , nor that since inflation-prone countries , such as France and Italy , joined the Deutschmark-dominated ERM their inflation rates have been forced down to German levels . |
| 17 | The rulers of Eastern Europe had been forced to recognise the failure of their system and that ‘ socialism is economic poison ’ . |
| 18 | Russian has been forced upon the country and many people are fluent . |
| 19 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 20 | Kenya 's one formal window frame manufacturer has been forced to move into a completely different business as the jua kali producers have been able to dominate the market with a product which is of equal quality but considerably cheaper . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He would probably have been forced out anyway , as several of his friends had been . |
| 23 | The brigade that it faced had been forced to give ground . |
| 24 | Even if Sir Richard 's Bill fails , Mr Gummer has been forced to bring in regulations himself . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As early as 1935 Herbert Wilcox had been forced to resign from his British and Dominions company following the failure of his bid for US success . |
| 27 | As a result of the stalemate , the Treasury has been forced to postpone $40billion in debt auctions this week . |
| 28 | But Shearson like other Wall Street firms has been forced to review its payroll by the dearth of corporate finance fees on top of the chronic decline in market volume and commissions . |
| 29 | Its erection came a month after the then 12-year-old state — in the face of a grave economic crisis — had been forced to reorganise its ministries and faced an outflow of its citizens to the West on a scale ( 200,000 in 1960 alone ) mirroring this year 's flood of refugees . |
| 30 | THE PACE of the debate has been forced by the UN 's anti-drug organisation UNFDAC . |