Example sentences of "forced [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some women who started work after their children had grown up felt the need to continue working in order to obtain a reasonable pension on retirement , yet they were forced to retire at 60 , because that is the age when they become entitled to a state and/or occupational pension . |
| 2 | Peter Williams had the sort of nice neat blazer that everyone can remember being forced to wear at some traumatic stage in their lives , while the commentators and summarisers , who all sounded about 70 , had a comfortingly narrow command of the English language . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Forced to work at home , he developed techniques for preparing and collecting gases using what was to hand . |
| 7 | Nuadu knew that the Robemaker would put him to the treadmills ; that he would be forced to work at powering the Silver Looms to weave the Robemaker 's enchantments . |
| 8 | The couple were also forced to sell at a loss , the nearby post office and general store , which were also found to be contaminated . |
| 9 | Marching in fierce summer heat and unrelentingly harassed by Muslim mounted archers , the army was forced to halt at Hattin , in a waterless region , in the hope of being able to continue next day . |
| 10 | Catalytic converter technology would be forced to advance at a much improved rate , showing that F1 does indeed improve motoring in general . |
| 11 | He believes that an increasing number of vehicle and equipment makers who currently build their own engines will be forced to buy at least some of what they need from independents like Perkins . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 14 | Difficulties may arise because you are forced to look at the situation from two different viewpoints : |
| 15 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 16 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 17 | England was finally forced to look at what the rest of the world had been doing with the game . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He tilted her chin so she was forced to look at him . |
| 20 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Not quite , ’ he said deliberately , and caught her chin in his hand so she was forced to look at him . |
| 23 | Mr Akehurst says one of the positive results of recent changes in the NHS , however , is that the medical profession has been forced to look at whether the services it provides meet local needs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 26 | Poland restored relations on Feb. 27 , calling the rift a mistake , apologising for an anti-Semitic purge in March 1968 and offering to restore citizenship to about 30,000 Jews forced to emigrate at that time . |
| 27 | Then on 14 June 1985 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and forced to land at Beirut where , before the world 's television cameras , it was held for 17 days . |
| 28 | The rain passed and we took off , only to be forced to land at the military airbase at Butterworth . |
| 29 | Later that day she had been forced to catnap at her desk , having achieved little else of consequence there . |
| 30 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |