Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] forced [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds ' former England defender was forced to sit out the final ten matches of last season 's title charge with an ankle injury that needed surgery . |
| 2 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 3 | The Worcestershire man had barely 40 overs under his belt in six Tests before this one , but here he was wheeling away in a marathon spell stretching into the fourth day , and with Tufnell on the way to completing the most overs ever bowled by one man in a first-class innings in New Zealand , the Kiwi machine was forced to change down a gear or two . |
| 4 | The UN was forced to call off an attempt to evacuate Muslims from Srebrenica by helicopter on Wednesday after Serb artillery shelled the landing zone . |
| 5 | Those naturalists who wanted to preserve a role for the supernatural in the creation of life were forced to try out a number of alternatives in an attempt to provide an explanatory framework that would serve as an alternative to evolutionism . |
| 6 | Eventually , as much for hygienic reasons as out of a desire to conform with Moscow 's example of de-Stalinization , the Czechs were forced to give up the battle to keep Gottwald 's corpse from going green and bury him instead . |
| 7 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |