Example sentences of "force [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Fuel is these young mothers ' greatest problem : it takes a large chunk of their small income , and many mothers are also housed on estates with either excessive heating costs or minimal heating provisions , which forces them to use expensive alternatives .
2 These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) .
3 Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money .
4 Feminist psychology is becoming conscious of its theories ' unadventurousness , their distance from other feminist debates , and the way their focus on individual subjects forces them to neglect social relations .
5 Assuming QRAM is like QEMM386 , you can most likely add an Include statement to your QRAM line in CONFIG.SYS , which forces it to use this area of RAM .
6 Seeing Renaissance writing deploying its resources to justify genocide as moral , divinely justified and ‘ civilising ’ , forces us to accept that Renaissance literature 's role has too frequently been accepted as unquestionably an instrument of enlightenment in some unexplored way .
7 It is as if such mimicry rips the word away from its object , disunifies the two , shows that a given straightforward generic word — epic or tragic — is one-sided , bounded , incapable of exhausting the object ; the process of parodying forces us to experience those sides of the object that are not otherwise included in a given genre or a given style .
8 Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements .
9 After 1577 , the central authorities mounted a growing attack on these recusants , forcing them to abandon apparent conformity at greater cost .
10 COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays .
11 Wearily he righted the fallen chair and sat down again , sifting through the lines of words , forcing himself to pay close attention to his own composition , the self-invented structures of his own being .
12 The missions are fine in themselves , but are manufactured to order , rather than in a true campaign fashion forcing you to undertake certain tasks .
13 A business man who claims his bank is forcing him to pay exorbitant charges has started a local campaign to force the banks to change their ways .
14 Had she lost respect for him for not being so positive and forcing her to stay last year ?
15 The inadequacy of this part of English law was signalled recently in Kowalski ( 1988 ) , where the Court of Appeal upheld an estranged husband 's conviction for indecently assaulting his wife by forcing her to have oral sex with him .
16 Thus the typical people criminally victimizing and forcing us to fear each other and fracture our sense of ‘ community ’ are young uneducated males , who are often unemployed , live in a working-class impoverished neighbourhood ; and frequently belong to an ethnic minority .
17 It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer .
18 In discussions with me , representatives of all the major brewing companies have admitted that the orders did not force them to take those actions against the tenants .
19 Some GM grammars , particularly those backed by ancient charities , would undoubtedly consider going independent , though LEA opposition may force them to seek new premises .
20 It was difficult for him to make contact with people these days , even old friends , and he could n't force himself to go next door and enquire about her .
21 Should he go further and force her to have sexual intercourse without her consent , this may evidence a failure of the marital relationship .
22 The effect on arboreal animals is largely to force them to leave logged forest and , as forests diminish , to promote their overcrowding .
23 ‘ They tried to force me to sign that document … ’
24 He knew , and again he had to force himself to face this point , that his escape itself was a dishonest one .
25 Britain and France joined other western creditors 18 months ago in halting aid to President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya to force him to hold democratic elections .
26 Was he going to force her to undergo further manipulation of her heart-strings until she was completely possessed ?
27 It is not wise simply to ignore your fear or to force yourself to confront some object or event which terrifies you .
28 You have to force yourself to make adequate eye contact with the audience and to stand still .
29 Indeed we may inhibit their development if we force them to use unfamiliar approaches which slow down their thinking in the cause of a mistaken view of what it is to work systematically .
30 One teacher , for example , will structure the discussion very carefully so the pupils concentrate simply on getting the details right , while another may hand the whole problem to the class and then force them to justify any suggestions they make .
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