Example sentences of "forced [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In almost all cases , relatives were not officially informed of the executions and were forced to search for the victims ' bodies in mass graves . |
| 2 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 3 | Names like Rommel , Auchinleck , El Alamein sounded as common to the ear as Smith , Jones and Robinson ; yet Joe had the feeling that he was being forced to stand on the sidelines and watch a game in which he had not the slightest interest . |
| 4 | Because of the Golden Share , Murdoch and any others would be forced to stand on the sidelines gnashing their teeth as News on Sunday forged ahead , slicing huge swathes off the readership of their titles . |
| 5 | Hocazade was reconciled with his father , for whom he subsequently gave a great feast ; so great was the press of notables , however , that his brothers were forced to stand among the servants . |
| 6 | In the Labour Party the supporters of rearmament — Dalton and Bevin — were forced to work behind the scenes . |
| 7 | Voters are forced to discriminate between the parties in terms of their general ideologies , value biases and images . |
| 8 | Re-emerging from the tunnel , Jim and Louise had been gripped firmly by their necks and forced to advance through the trees in silence . |
| 9 | As a result of their financial difficulties , Athletico were forced to resign from the Mid-Counties League and for the 70/71 season played no football at all , thereby suffering no defeats and thus securing their most successful season ever . |
| 10 | But Mr Millar , who was instrumental in introducing new financial controls at the company and was forced to look after the communications side after Mr Simonds-Gooding 's departure , has also gone . |
| 11 | Yet it is she whom Abraham hands over to Sarah to do with as she pleases , and who is treated so cruelly by her mistress that she is forced to escape into the sands . |
| 12 | The fact that he was eventually forced to comply with the wishes of his senior LDP colleagues was interpreted as further evidence of his lack of authority within the ruling party . |
| 13 | Many members had been killed or forced to flee into the cities and many more had joined the FMLN . |
| 14 | These lands the king now claimed as his ‘ proper soil ’ , and tenants were forced to compound with the commissioners by paying fines to the Crown and an annual rent thereafter . |
| 15 | Environment spokesman Jack Straw said £5 billion was lying idle while thousands were forced to sleep on the streets . |
| 16 | A housing charity wants repossessed homes to be made available for people who are forced to sleep on the streets . |
| 17 | Squatters say they could be forced to sleep on the streets by new Government measures aimed at speeding up their eviction . |
| 18 | Every day some master , insufficiently energetic or serious , is forced to descend from the ranks in society which seemed to be permanently his , and some intelligent and plucky clerk takes his place . |
| 19 | They say political pressure forced it through … and they 're forced to live with the consequences . |
| 20 | that people are are forced to live in the flats , and are forced to live in on the minimum |
| 21 | But the agency ran into trouble when sponsorship funds became increasingly difficult to attract and management were forced to call in the liquidators earlier this month . |
| 22 | She was forced to crouch in the bowels of the machine with her knees up around her ears , her elbows jammed against the interior dispensing machinery and her back wedged so tightly against the shelf supports that she was going to come out with her spine looking like a piece of corrugated duralinium . |
| 23 | But the same year , 465 , saw the biter bit : instead of forcing Athens to abandon an overseas operation to deal with a problem nearer home , that is , a Spartan army menacing the Attic border , Sparta was herself forced to welch on the Thasos offer , because she had to deal with a revolt of the helots at Ithome in Messenia . |
| 24 | Commentators were forced to ponder on the implications of allowing , or not allowing , the enfranchisement of the working class in a context in which either course of action seemed fraught with danger . |
| 25 | Elephants , leopard , deer and bear were either shot or forced to move to the lowlands , which the colonists did not particularly covet . |
| 26 | There is no way you can dig around major roots and there , therefore , is another situation in which you are forced to rely on the rabbits being bolted , recognising that you can not thereafter kill those which remain behind in the system . |
| 27 | Both men and women must also look for paid work and many have been forced to migrate into the cities . |
| 28 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 29 | It ca n't come soon enough for the homeless on the street , They feel the longer they wait the more they 'll be forced to beg on the streets , and even turn to crime . |