Example sentences of "be forced [to-vb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wakil denounced Mr Najibullah for cowardice in trying to flee and said he had been forced to resign as head of the ruling Watan ( Homeland ) Party . |
| 2 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 3 | Miyazawa had been forced to resign as Finance Minister in December 1988 [ see p. 38558 ] after appearing to mislead the Diet over his involvement in a scandal which had involved numerous senior Japanese figures receiving cheap unlisted shares in Recruit-Cosmos , a real-estate company . |
| 4 | Most of them were so badly damaged that they sank or were forced to withdraw as shell splinters cut their steering lines and tracer set fire to fuel tanks , but they gave a good account of themselves because the port was defended by well-sited , quick-firing guns used for anti-aircraft or anti-ship fire . |
| 5 | Twelve year-old Tanwaru was forced to act as interpreter between the raiders and her mother who only speaks Bengali . |
| 6 | Irish referee Brian Smith was forced to act as peacemaker when fighting broke out among the rival front rows on more than one occasion , and once again the Aussies were frustrated by the spoiling tactics of the home side . |
| 7 | Even though Haider was forced to resign as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 [ see p. 38298 ] he remained party leader . |
| 8 | After a period of prolonged popular opposition Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , as laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 9 | After a period of popular unrest , Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced in an interim capacity by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , under a procedure laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |