Example sentences of "been forced [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our courts have not yet been forced to give a direct ruling on this matter . |
| 2 | For a similar reason he has also been forced to cancel the long-cherished project of staging the British première of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann 's epic Die Soldaten — a production which would have focused international attention on Opera North at a point when it is clearly ready for such exposure . |
| 3 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 4 | I would have been forced to do the same myself . |
| 5 | The carts in which the other members of the three households were riding had been forced to take a longer route to the spot . |
| 6 | The United States and its allies have been forced to defend the controversial plan , agreed at the weekend after a divisive debate , as a real recipe for ending the 14-month-old war . |
| 7 | President Kaunda had been forced to implement an International Monetary Fund-inspired 120 per-cent-increase in the price of Zambia 's staple food , maize meal . |
| 8 | He had been forced to undergo the full body-search and decontamination procedure . |
| 9 | Local authorities have been forced to sell the best of their housing stock into owner occupation , and to agree to the transfer of houses remaining in the rented sector to alternative landlords . |
| 10 | The British government had been forced to undertake a massive air and sea movement of troops . |
| 11 | Or maybe she 's found out that someone saw her , so she 's been forced to spin a plausible tale . ’ |
| 12 | I had finally been forced to apply a large pad of cotton wool held in place with an enormous length of three-inch bandage . |
| 13 | On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum . |
| 14 | I 've been forced to pay a high enough price for the goods , for heaven 's sake . |
| 15 | Odd , he reflected , that now she had been forced to make a straight denial , he had lost his confidence . |
| 16 | France have been forced to make a few late changes . |
| 17 | One " secret witness " , subsequently identified as a German of Iraqi origin , recanted his testimony during the trial and claimed that he had been forced to make a false testimony under duress . |
| 18 | In the absence of more sophisticated data , the calculation of the numbers of married women and men living on low incomes has been forced to assume an equal division of income within the income unit . |
| 19 | So many fans are turning up to see Premier side CHAMDEN CITY these days that the club has been forced to buy the neighbouring supermarket . |
| 20 | Organisational culture has become a fashionable concept but has been forced to bear a heavier weight than it can sustain in explanations of organisational performance ( as the recently declining fortunes of some of the companies studied by Peters and Waterman illustrate ) . |
| 21 | Those linguists who have paid explicit attention to literacy , and they are as yet few , have been forced to question the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and to cast doubt on what I have termed the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 22 | We have , therefore , been forced to increase the minimum sum insured to £6,000 ( Replacement as New policies ) and £4,500 ( all others ) ** |
| 23 | In recent years , the UCC has been forced to reconsider the broader issues of communication both within its congregations and outside . |