Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [to-vb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Those who joined were forced to fornicate in the presence of others . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 16 | In fact , the girls suffered permanently from colds and flu from all the time they were forced to spend in the freezing playground . |
| 17 | However , Palestinians were forced to remain within the occupied territories so that the majority were effectively barred from their jobs in Israel . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Environment spokesman Jack Straw said £5 billion was lying idle while thousands were forced to sleep on the streets . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As a result of their financial difficulties , Athletico were forced to resign from the Mid-Counties League and for the 70/71 season played no football at all , thereby suffering no defeats and thus securing their most successful season ever . |
| 25 | That day Antrim were forced to play without the injured Terence McNaughton , and he 's again a reluctant spectator today , though he could be pressed into action at some stage . |
| 26 | In the Labour Party the supporters of rearmament — Dalton and Bevin — were forced to work behind the scenes . |
| 27 | But it was not the kind of station that has taxis waiting outside it , and the two ladies were forced to walk through the crowded streets , now full of people doing their weekend shopping . |
| 28 | Commentators were forced to ponder on the implications of allowing , or not allowing , the enfranchisement of the working class in a context in which either course of action seemed fraught with danger . |
| 29 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 30 | Orcs were forced to fight for the Dark Elves in their wars against the High Elves , although in truth the Orcs took little persuading . |