Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the senior courtiers who had sniffily averted their eyes when the Princess approached were forced to treat her with more respect . |
| 2 | Since a rise in interest rates can cause quite a severe fall in the price of bonds , banks could make a considerable capital loss if they were forced to sell them at such times . |
| 3 | Like PEPS everywhere , this was slow to catch on , especially as dealers were forced to sell it for days at a time without getting paid commission for it , so most did n't bother . |
| 4 | Eventually we were forced to release her on a technicality . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , by 1935 , the definitively Stalinised Comintern and its network of party faithful comprised the main organisational basis of Marxism in Latin America , and therefore provided a vital touchstone for all other sectors of the Left , which were forced to define themselves in relation to its characterisation of the Latin American revolution . |
| 6 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 7 | Years later they even kept a black panther for a while , until there were complaints and they were forced to send it to a wildlife park . |
| 8 | ‘ There is plenty of accommodation to choose from and the days when you were forced to pay lots of money for grotty rentals have gone . ’ |
| 9 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 10 | Minutes after appearing before a television crew to defend a jockey 's right to have the whip in his armoury , Steve Cauthen was forced to use it aboard the short-head winner . |
| 11 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
| 12 | They once lived on a housing estate , but the council was forced to move them to the isolated bungalow after complaints from neighbours . |
| 13 | The Queen was forced to strip him of it 13 years later . |
| 14 | As a small child , sick with temper when she was forced to do something against her will or even when she was strapped too tightly into a bed , she had risen to heights of defiance that genuinely alarmed her family . |
| 15 | Poor Mrs Sugden had her leg put in plaster , and was forced to bump herself down the stairs to get her husband 's meals — he had no intention of spoiling her . |
| 16 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |
| 17 | The root of the problem lay in the fact that , having cut its links with the United States , Cuba ‘ was forced to graft itself onto a bloc which , apart from being totally different , was already afflicted with its own specific illnesses . |