Example sentences of "who [verb] [be] forced " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe . |
| 2 | Those who joined were forced to fornicate in the presence of others . |
| 3 | She , who had been forced to be her own person : first , by circumstances ; second , by temperament ; third ( as she fiercely told herself ) by inclination … and yet she , Jane , could not get him , Christopher , out of her mind . |
| 4 | Last , I had to help the peasant and working-class boys who had been forced to go to university with no background education whatsoever . |
| 5 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 6 | But now it was also an armed presence , established by the PLO guerrillas and their leaders who had been forced out of Amman by King Husain . |
| 7 | A 57-year-old man , who had been forced to retire from work because of chronic ill health , was admitted to hospital having made severe lacerations of his neck with a knife . |
| 8 | Women who had been forced , in the name of Victory , to return to work in shops and factories , yet still found time at the end of the day to brew tea and serve hot meat pies , and smile . |
| 9 | The linesman called it wide — Australian umpire Wayne Mckewan , who had been forced to demand ‘ Silence , s'il vous plaît ’ , almost as often as he had needed to call the score , agreed — and Forget not only lost this point but the next two as well to be 15–40 . |
| 10 | No doubt he had the active help and encouragement of the Druids , who had been forced to abandon their sacred groves in south-eastern Britain and settled on the Isle of Anglesey off the coast of north Wales . |
| 11 | A campesina woman who had been forced to move into the capital because her brother had been taken a political prisoner , had participated in the UN ) : |
| 12 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
| 13 | Her parents , who had been forced to sell their house in London , had moved to Chiswick in 1893 . |
| 14 | His life was not like hers and she was simply an outsider who had been forced to come here . |
| 15 | Approximately 150 monarchists gathered in the centre of Bucharest and an estimated 300 more at the capital 's Otopen airport on April 12 shouting slogans denouncing the government and supporting the King , who had been forced to abdicate in 1947 . |
| 16 | Among the 21 people named were Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Kenya 's first Vice-President ( his son Raila Odinga was among six dissident intellectuals who were detained on July 5 ) ; another former Vice-President Josephat Karanja , who had been forced to resign in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] ; the writer Ngugi wa Thiongo ; an Anglican bishop , the Rev. Henry Okullu , who three days previously had called upon the government to resign ; and a lawyer , Gibson Kamau Kuria , who had earlier compared Moi with the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 17 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 18 | At a meeting with the director of Asian Affairs of Papua New Guinea 's Foreign Ministry in Marauke , Aceh Province , on Feb. 11 , Irian Jaya Deputy Governor Sudrajat Nataatmaja agreed to accept the return of 208 Marauke villagers who had been forced to flee to Papua New Guinea after armed clashes between the security forces and members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement ( GKN ) on Jan. 24 . |
| 19 | Francisco Perdomo Sandoval was appointed as the new Interior Minister on July 31 , replacing Fernando Hurtado Prem who had been forced to resign on July 23 , apparently following a wave of protests after anti-riot police violently evicted 500 campesinos ( peasants ) gathered in the Central Plaza in Guatemala City . |
| 20 | The others had all been chosen by party colleagues in order to replace leaders who had been forced to resign over issues of mismanagement . |
| 21 | Yordanov replaced Stefan Savov , also of the UDF , who had been forced out of office by the MNF and the BSP in September [ see p. 39105 ] . |
| 22 | This development had been widely predicted since the appointment of Keizo Obuchi as leader of the Takeshita faction in succession to Shin Kanemara , who had been forced to resign from the Diet in October as a result of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal [ see pp. 39140-41 ] . |
| 23 | Vocal opposition , such as it is , has come from people who are retired from public life , who have been purged or pushed to one side by the Ceausescu leadership , or who have been forced to make do with a moral posture on key issues , registering their dissent , but no more . |
| 24 | By some means or other , people who have been forced to deny their beliefs , have eventually re-established their acts of worship either openly or clandestinely at whatever cost . |
| 25 | There are no exact figures for the numbers of Salvadoreans who have been forced to leave their homes because of the civil war , Some are economic refugees , but the great majority have fled because of the repression . |
| 26 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 27 | I am thinking in particular of the return of those who have been forced to flee abroad , such as Mr. Oginga Odinga , free access to the press , access to the media generally during the campaign , and some form of international supervision by monitors such as those under the auspices of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . |
| 28 | A man who 's been forced to live on the other side of the world from his wife for two years because of immigration red tape has finally been told he can join her . |