Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [prep] [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 2 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 3 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 4 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 5 | Trellis is a useful compromise and you can always pretend it was forced on you by the speed of growth of your climbing rose . |