Example sentences of "forced upon [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in a colonial situation , subordinate peoples have a particular group identity forced upon them by the operation of power , rather than by some prior common features . |
| 2 | It must be understood that the brewers ' actions have not been forced upon them by the legislation . |
| 3 | She considered all this as she listened to the heated opinions forced upon her outside the shop ( where the throbbing engine of the Findus delivery van obliged everyone to shout ) , on the corner by the church and at two other points on her route back to Greystones . |
| 4 | The idea that the British Government is incapable of running sound financial policies without having them forced upon it through the mechanism of the ERM is an outrageous one . |
| 5 | But you would n't have done it quite you would have thought about whether you did it , whereas the moment you 've been forced to do it because of the cuts that have been forced upon us by the Poll Tax capping . |
| 6 | Now this question will be answered in the wrong way if we forget the qualifications , forced upon us by the adoption of Wittgenstein 's notion of language-games , which permeate the implications of such talk about dumb animals . |