Example sentences of "be forced [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither should he be forced to remain in hospital when he could be treated in the community . |
| 2 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 3 | At a press conference yesterday , Mr John Dawson , head of the B.M.A . 's professional and scientific division , said that if no action was taken , the elderly could be forced to rely on charity and ‘ could even be forced to beg . ’ |
| 4 | Hard up old folk will be forced to go without medicine because they can not afford it , Age Concern said today . |
| 5 | Now next year something else might happen and somebody may be forced to go to court , if they can not go to court they can not get justice and they have to wait to see what happens . |
| 6 | He felt that if they could make travelling at night dangerous , the enemy would be forced to move in daylight , thus becoming targets for the RAF . |
| 7 | Within ten years 40 per cent of cars , 70 per cent of trucks and all buses will be forced to run on methanol , natural gas or electricity . |
| 8 | A 57-year-old man , who had been forced to retire from work because of chronic ill health , was admitted to hospital having made severe lacerations of his neck with a knife . |
| 9 | Said Mr Marshall : ‘ Having been forced to retire from business I nevertheless retained my unbounded enthusiasm for work and community service . |
| 10 | Said Mr Marshall : ‘ Having been forced to retire from business I nevertheless retained my unbounded enthusiasm for work and community service . |
| 11 | It was why he had been forced to retire from Delta . |
| 12 | Last , I had to help the peasant and working-class boys who had been forced to go to university with no background education whatsoever . |
| 13 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 14 | Children 's line had been forced to close through lack of cash , but now funds have been raised to get the service off the ground again ; June Nash who is on the service 's committee has been instrumental in the relaunch . |
| 15 | Moving like an automaton , she dressed in jeans and a warm sweater , smiling mirthlessly as she realised this was the third time she 'd been forced to flee from Dane Jacobsen . |
| 16 | The Guardian of April 18 reported that nearly 2,000 state-controlled companies had been forced to file for bankruptcy after an April 16 deadline for the repayment of their debts . |
| 17 | Until yesterday , he and his closest confidante had been forced to meet in secret , at carefully-chosen safe houses — such as the high-walled home of Camilla 's sister , Annabel Elliot , at Stourpaine , Dorset , or her best friend Amanda Ward 's secluded Berkshire mansion . |
| 18 | It is for these reasons that sedimentologists have been forced to work to death the few modern examples they have ( such as the poor old Bahamas Ranks ) for analogies with ancient sedimentation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There is a mass lobby of Parliament on December 1 , to try to bring home to those in power what is happening to the families who are forced to live in bed and breakfasts , and those who literally have nowhere to lay their heads . |
| 23 | Can it help Third World countries as they are forced to choose between capitalism and Marxism both of which seem to have unattractive features ? |
| 24 | ‘ The economic problem is that of doing deliberately in peace that which we are forced to do in war — of creating a community in which [ people ] have value . |
| 25 | Increasingly , poor families are forced to rely upon family credit , which is of course means-tested and to make matters worse , free school meals have been withdrawn from over 500,000 children whose parents are on family credit . |
| 26 | And , ‘ as more people are forced to look for value , they 'll think ‘ why the hell bother to pay more ? ’ when the good times return , ’ he claims . |
| 27 | Young people and first time buyers are forced to look for accommodation outside their local rural area and the villages are being deprived of an important element in the community . |
| 28 | Your help is needed in taking out extra ‘ travel insurance ’ this summer so that fewer people in Ethiopia and Eritrea are forced to travel in search of food . |
| 29 | They are forced to work in isolation , even though it is riskier to do so . |
| 30 | Or rather , so magisterial was our progress that these less-solid citizens were being forced to weave in order to avoid our combined bulk . |