Example sentences of "forced [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller and medium sized Irish companies , forced off TV by the cost , could also return . |
| 2 | It often happens that while on their southward migration in autumn , they get forced off course by westerly gales , at times arriving in Shetland in large numbers . |
| 3 | In fact , Britain 's relations with black African states and the Commonwealth generally greatly improved , not least because the long-turbulent figure of Ian Smith was finally forced off centre-stage . |
| 4 | Sir Fred resigned after Conservative peers forced through legislation allowing review of all Scotland 's SSSIs . |
| 5 | It was born in that self-confident time when other changes she had doggedly forced past party muttering had been rewarded by a step-change in productivity and relatively low inflation . |
| 6 | There are feelings of anger and resentment at being singled out by the disease , at being unable to achieve the control one fought so hard to obtain , at being forced to accept defeat , at being forced towards recovery by the sheer weight of consequences and sometimes by the final threats of others who have at last truly come to the end of their patience and understanding , at having to give up the " trusted friend " , at having to face up to issues one most wanted to forget and at having to make an inventory , admit one 's wrongs and make amends . |
| 7 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 8 | But we do need to be wary of inferring too much central direction , partly because this implies that banks or companies were forced into compliance . |
| 9 | one wonders whether you 're forced into signing , that if needed , you 'll |
| 10 | How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ? |
| 11 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 12 | This enabled the Emperor to avoid any pitched battles that would be destructive of manpower , and by 1162 the Milanese were starving and forced into surrender . |
| 13 | So from your point of view you were forced into bed with the Tories , but why are you spending less than the capping level ? |
| 14 | However , many women are forced into part time , low-grade jobs — more often than not in the public sector . |
| 15 | Like many other boys with India in his blood he had been forced into rootlessness by education . |
| 16 | One wonders why taxpayers continue to accept a situation that allows schoolchildren to be educated in sub-standard conditions , hospitals to deteriorate , and local authorities to be denied funds to repair damaged roads , when the taxes pay for the subsistence of people forced into idleness who would rather be employed remedying those situations . |
| 17 | The old Bourbon ‘ Boule de Neige ’ rose was planted in the glasshouse for the bride 's bouquet and corsage — glasshouse-grown roses can be forced into flower four to six weeks earlier than normal . |
| 18 | She would never be forced into utterance . |
| 19 | Both parties need the right to end the agreement if the other goes bankrupt or is forced into liquidation , or ceases to operate in the music business . |
| 20 | A LEADING organisation involved in the renovation of historic buildings has been forced into liquidation because families have squatted in the houses it restored . |
| 21 | A LEADING organisation involved in the renovation of historic buildings has been forced into liquidation because families have squatted in the houses it restored . |
| 22 | A significant number of companies had been forced into liquidation , and potentially viable businesses capable of being rescued had been closed down , for want of such a floating charge . |
| 23 | Some have withdrawn voluntarily ; others have been forced into liquidation by their creditors . |
| 24 | He was so shocked by the case of his businessman brother who was forced into bankruptcy by the Inland Revenue in 1983 , that he founded the Association of Bankrupts to help others in the same position . |
| 25 | Through such corporate crimes as bribing foreign and domestic governmental officials , price-fixing , mergers and take-overs , fraudulent advertising , espionage , and patent violation , some competing corporations are forced into bankruptcy , others ' capacity to compete is impaired , and still others are robbed of resources vital to maintaining their market position . |
| 26 | Some items are so valuable that the owners have been forced into bankruptcy by their loss . |
| 27 | Once , in a crowded bar I was forced into conversation with two ladies who were so disappointed that I felt quite guilty . |
| 28 | But she had never realized quite how much knowledge she had assimilated until today , until she had been forced into conversation for the first time ever with a total stranger . |
| 29 | To put it in another way , when searching for a word which will revitalize an object , we pick a farfetched word , unusual at least in its given application , a word which is forced into service . |
| 30 | The battalion became famous for a skilful defence of the Cerro Mala Cara carried out in February 1982 , when the combined forces of the US-trained army battalions , the " Ramon Belloso " and the " Atlacail " were forced into retreat : |