Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoff was a sturdy wing-half with a refinement and vision of play which were perhaps a little too sophisticated for the Palace teams of his day , where we were forced to perform in the hurly-burly of the old 3rd Division South , and in the end his career was finished by a nasty knee injury sustained in mid-1952–53 . |
| 2 | In almost all cases , relatives were not officially informed of the executions and were forced to search for the victims ' bodies in mass graves . |
| 3 | With the withering of their grasslands , the nomads of the Sahara were forced to descend into the narrow jungle of the Nile valley , there to take up the toil of agriculture . |
| 4 | There , the terrified woman could only watch as her three friends were forced to strip in the glare of the Pathfinder 's headlights . |
| 5 | The Manager joined Andrew Cunningham underground and together they continued the search but it was in vain and they were forced to return to the surface . |
| 6 | Red-faced check-in staff were forced to explain to the frustrated passengers that engineers at Glasgow Airport had forgotten to replace the seats in the Twin Otter aircraft used for the inter-islands service . |
| 7 | One evening as they were forced to shelter from a sudden shower under the thick line of sycamores , she said , ‘ You should call to the house some evening , Michael . |
| 8 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 9 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 10 | These lands the king now claimed as his ‘ proper soil ’ , and tenants were forced to compound with the commissioners by paying fines to the Crown and an annual rent thereafter . |
| 11 | The discount houses , in the face of the shortage which was created in the money market , were forced to borrow from the Bank of England 's discount window at Bank Rate . |
| 12 | Indeed , Anglicans were forced to engage in a propaganda campaign to try to prevent the Whigs and Nonconformists from falling too much in line with government policy . |
| 13 | The reasons have been strikingly depicted by Cole and Postgate ( 1961:306 ) : The appalling sanitary conditions were accompanied by an increase in destitution and pauperism as people left the countryside , or were forced to leave by the Enclosure Acts , and sought jobs in the manufacturing towns . |
| 14 | Those who joined were forced to fornicate in the presence of others . |
| 15 | Classified as ‘ rebels ’ , those who would not recognise the new political order which the treaty represented suffered the confiscation of their property and were forced to move to the rival obedience where , over the coming years , some helped to foster opposition to English rule in northern France . |
| 16 | Once you have accepted the offer and the position has been suitably documented , you will hardly ever be able to persuade a court or tribunal to upset it unless you can convince them that you were forced to agree as a result of economic duress . |
| 17 | But the agency ran into trouble when sponsorship funds became increasingly difficult to attract and management were forced to call in the liquidators earlier this month . |
| 18 | Britain was in the grip of a severe recession and by 1875 the Britannia Works were forced to close at an enormous loss which Albert Hill could not sustain . |
| 19 | But , although they nearly ran out of steam and were forced to settle for a less than emphatic 27–24 margin of victory as the ‘ Boks came back at them , Sean Fitzpatrick 's side — with the Jones boys Ian and Michael , Zinzan Brooke and Frank Bunce outstanding alongside their skipper — were worthy of being the only New Zealand side ever to go through South Africa undefeated , albeit on an abbreviated tour . |
| 20 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 21 | In fact , the girls suffered permanently from colds and flu from all the time they were forced to spend in the freezing playground . |
| 22 | However , Palestinians were forced to remain within the occupied territories so that the majority were effectively barred from their jobs in Israel . |
| 23 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 24 | Those who answered his call became known as the Reaver Knights because they were forced to live off the land as they galloped back and forth across Ulthuan . |
| 25 | Though the Dwarfs were forced to live in a virtual state of siege , they gradually managed to clear the Night Goblins and other evil creatures out of the upper levels . |
| 26 | Environment spokesman Jack Straw said £5 billion was lying idle while thousands were forced to sleep on the streets . |
| 27 | The authors of the Black Report , who included one of the most eminent Fabian academics , Professor Peter Townsend , were clear that such disparities were socially unjust and the NHS needed policies to address them , but they were forced to conclude from the evidence that the major causes of health inequalities lay beyond the NHS and were rooted in the material conditions of life experienced by the different classes . |
| 28 | Last year SmithKline Beecham , who make Ribena , were forced to come to a secret cash deal with a dozen families who threatened a court case claiming their children 's teeth were rotted by the so-called ‘ healthy ’ baby drink . |
| 29 | A PILOT and his passenger were forced to land in the middle of a road yesterday when their plane lost power shortly after take-off . |
| 30 | Hocazade was reconciled with his father , for whom he subsequently gave a great feast ; so great was the press of notables , however , that his brothers were forced to stand among the servants . |