Example sentences of "be forced [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories would not be allowed to keep Jeffrey Archer and Labour could be forced to distance itself from Ben Elton , who is known to frighten off some middle-of-the-road autograph hunters . |
| 2 | You can not be compelled to commit , or be a party to , a criminal offence or to undertake any other unlawful act ( such as , in one reported case , procuring prostitutes for the firm 's customers ) , nor can you be forced to put yourself in immediate physical danger . |
| 3 | If Microsoft is found to have a case to answer , the minimum possibility is that the company is forced to sign a consent decree under which it has to unbundle , and agree not to bundle in future — for instance it might have to dismantle Windows for Workgroups and sell the networking elements as a separate product ( similar networking code will be an integral part of standard Windows NT ) ; at worst , the company could be forced to split itself into two completely different companies , one for operating systems and languages , the other for applications . |
| 4 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |
| 5 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 6 | This is only possible after the child has been forced to recognize itself as ‘ il ’ , as an object of exchange between its parents . |
| 7 | If they last , Phillips believes that joint ventures may hold the answer and thinks that the new shareholders who will take stakes after the existing owners are forced to divest themselves of 51% of ITN could provide the answer . |
| 8 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , by 1935 , the definitively Stalinised Comintern and its network of party faithful comprised the main organisational basis of Marxism in Latin America , and therefore provided a vital touchstone for all other sectors of the Left , which were forced to define themselves in relation to its characterisation of the Latin American revolution . |
| 10 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 11 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 12 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
| 13 | Poor Mrs Sugden had her leg put in plaster , and was forced to bump herself down the stairs to get her husband 's meals — he had no intention of spoiling her . |
| 14 | The root of the problem lay in the fact that , having cut its links with the United States , Cuba ‘ was forced to graft itself onto a bloc which , apart from being totally different , was already afflicted with its own specific illnesses . |