Example sentences of "[was/were] force [prep] [pron] by " 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 | Whatever the subsequent rationalisations , all decisions were forced upon him by shortage of cash . |
| 3 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Trellis is a useful compromise and you can always pretend it was forced on you by the speed of growth of your climbing rose . |
| 8 | I just drifted into it 'cos I was forced into it by me family . |
| 9 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that that figure was forced upon him by Ministers collectively . |
| 10 | His faltering authority was demonstrated in December when an extensive Cabinet reshuffle was forced upon him by factional leaders . |
| 11 | It was forced upon them by experience . |
| 12 | For they would enable the cat to switch more easily to whatever new food regimen was forced upon it by altered circumstances . |
| 13 | Its next major measure was forced upon it by Labour backbenchers . |