Example sentences of "forced [pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANCHESTER 's Most Excellent , one of the city 's finest one nighters till the Salford posse smashed in and forced them to close last month , has started its own record label . |
| 2 | Every dealer put his throwaway leads in it , only their leader occasionally forced them to contribute dealable ones . |
| 3 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 4 | The 53-year-old captain and his crew began their epic adventure to sail in the wake of Colummbus , at 8pm on Wednesday evening , but an injured crew member forced them to land two hours later 21 miles down the cost . |
| 5 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody forced you to buy that house . ’ |
| 7 | On April 30 , 1989 , Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah announced a Cabinet reshuffle after pressure from the central government forced him to include certain Congress ( I ) leaders in his Jammu and Kashmir National Conference ( JKNC-Farooq ) and Congress ( I ) adminstration , increasing the number of Cabinet members from 19 to 30 . |
| 8 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 9 | Richard beat the offside track as he collected a through ball from Howard Barber , but Nick Taylor 's challenge forced him to put wide . |
| 10 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
| 11 | After an education in France , Wharton briefly sat as an MP in the Parliament of 1680 as member for East Grinstead , before a hotheaded pro-Exclusionist speech forced him to lie low . |
| 12 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 13 | The constraints Ealing placed upon Mackendrick were constructive , because they forced him to find original narratives that used Ealing 's increasingly stale formulae against itself . |
| 14 | The real fear that this revolution might overthrow the Tsar forced him to make some political concessions to appease the masses . |
| 15 | It affected his own supplies , as well as the carriage of news , and forced him to make secondary plans , among other things , for the sale of his new sugar crop . |
| 16 | For example , though he made a number of proposals to increase public participation his overriding concern for expediting procedures forced him to compress these into a impracticable time-scale . |
| 17 | He was on his way south from a place called Nunyerry when , he said , monsoon clouds forced him to fly lower and lower into the Turner Ranges , one of those areas of outback Australia that are so inhospitable that even the local animals hibernate below ground . |
| 18 | Several hours later he drove her half a mile to a car park in Whitehorse Lane , South Norwood , near Sainsbury 's supermarket , and forced her to take some money from a cash point machine . |
| 19 | They raped her and took her away and forced her to marry one of them . |
| 20 | I got undressed and , after my usual battle with the crumbling Ascot in the bathroom , forced it to yield enough hot water for a miserly bath . |
| 21 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 22 | England had both ( see below ) , and Swegen forced it to disgorge large amounts of coin and precious metal , while also taking plunder and gaining a reputation as a successful commander which must have both drawn further contingents to his banners and strengthened his position in Scandinavia . |
| 23 | And they were led — incredulity forced us to ask each other later if we had seen it — these legions of men in full battledress were led by a lone soldier in a forage cap sitting atop a T-62 tank , playing a flute . |
| 24 | Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy . |
| 25 | Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise . |