Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking . |
| 2 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 3 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 4 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 5 | We , at least , are a leaner and , I hope , a healthier organisation because of the changes we were forced to bring about in the workshop . |
| 6 | The A.A. defences continued to take toll of attackers , 9/St.G 1 having a Ju87B so badly damaged over Valetta that the crew were forced to bale out on return to Sicily , while a second aircraft from this Staffel failed to return , Uffz . |
| 7 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 8 | So it was that just seven years after leaving Wales full of dreams of a lucrative new life , Dennis and Joan were forced to fly back to Glamorgan . |
| 9 | He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs . |
| 10 | Barry , assistant manager at Perry 's brasserie in Beaumont Street , was forced to drive back to the bar in his own car and ordered to open the safe . |
| 11 | That is also good news for John Collins , who was forced to fill in at left-back during Galloway 's injury and Mowbray 's suspension . |
| 12 | The 28-year-old suffered a thigh injury in last night 's League game against Partick Thistle and was forced to limp off after 37 minutes . |
| 13 | Net trading surpluses , from which funds were allocated , evaporated ; for most of 1921 and 1922 the LCS Political Committee was forced to carry on without a grant . |
| 14 | One cafe and clothesshop owner says he was forced to close down for the weekend . |
| 15 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 16 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 17 | At the same time , many inner-city slums were knocked down , so part of the growing post-war population was forced to move out of the central urban areas . |
| 18 | It was forced to touch down at Killyhoy Beach , north west Donegal . |
| 19 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 20 | For this reason , Handy was forced to sell out in the late 1960s . |
| 21 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 22 | In 1682 , he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years . |
| 23 | To clear this last hurdle I was forced to queue up outside a shed with a number of soldiers . |
| 24 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 25 | He took a slight step forward and , taking his friend 's chin in his hand , lifted his face so that Ludovico was forced to look up into his eyes . |
| 26 | His eyes narrowed on her face , he put his cup down , stripped off his apron , and walked slowly to stand beside her chair so that she was forced to look up at him . |
| 27 | finally , I was forced to walk over to her — and no self-respecting falconer likes to do this . |
| 28 | Afterwards she was forced to walk back to her own barracks on a freezing winter night , naked but for an anorak round her shoulders . |
| 29 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |
| 30 | By the time he had completed his forty-second plate he was forced to face up to his inadequacies as a business man . |