Example sentences of "force [prep] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force for contraction is provided by very fine muscle-like filaments within the filopod . |
| 2 | THE main public response to A Force for Change is the Plus Programme , a continuing series of measures drawn up by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charles Pollard and Commander Alec Marnoch . |
| 3 | The greatest force for change is the growth of the superstores , likely to dominate British electronics within five years . |
| 4 | The publication of A Force for Change was crucial because it represented an important internal victory for the reformers , and established glasnost as the principle by which the Met was to be put right . |
| 5 | Another direct result of conquest by force of arms was the development of slavery , which was widespread up to the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | A hastily assembled force of warriors was thrown into battle but to no avail . |
| 7 | The collectivizing force of women is a strong one , and not without its problems . |
| 8 | Now , sources close to the receivers of the H-M Agency of Los Angeles suggest that it has been conclusively proved that she was involved in the massacre at Dead Rat , Arizona , last year , during which a peaceful force of process-servers were murdered by members of the Maniax gangcult , who then razed the community to the ground . |
| 9 | But in a second battle , at Qadesiyah , near Kufah in central Mesopotamia , a large force of Persians was solidly defeated by a smaller body of Arabs , led by Saad ibn Abi Waqqas . |
| 10 | The vivifying force of electricity was recognised , and a fictional experiment is described in Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) . |
| 11 | To aid him , a large airborne force of Chindits was landed on the wide bend of the Irrawaddy between Bhamo and Katha . |
| 12 | The ‘ struggle for existence ’ was an illusion , and the driving force of evolution was Lamarckism . |
| 13 | For Darwin and his closest followers it was evident that the driving force of evolution was the process that adapted populations to their ever-changing environments . |
| 14 | The major force of industrialisation was foreign policy . |
| 15 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 16 | The knights were never more than one arm of any fighting force ; and it is hardly likely that any force of knights was ever recruited entirely by ‘ feudal ’ means . |
| 17 | Given the chance , a flank attack with a massed force of cavalry is usually a sound plan . |
| 18 | Lankester suggested that the driving force of progress was the struggle of organisms to cope with environmental challenge , and warned that degeneration threatened any species that took up a less stimulating environment . |
| 19 | Thus , while Corporal Weatherall and a growing force of commandos were on interminable training exercises , or standing by for operations that were cancelled before they got afloat , very few slipped the mesh of authority . |
| 20 | The Police Force of London was very anti-Jewish : but special measures were taken by Sir Samuel Hoare to enforce upon them the dire necessity of pampering the Israelites . |
| 21 | The time you eight , nine , ten , eleven , twelve hours later when you go to bed because the force of gravity is has n't it to . |
| 22 | The force of law is that it becomes part of common sense , and makes ‘ common sense ’ prescriptions about public order , theft and hard work . |
| 23 | This army numbered ultimately around 10,000 and was assembled in the Midlands around Coventry , the artillery , cavalry and main force of infantry being billeted on Meriden Common , six miles [ 10 km ] away . |
| 24 | Marx was very much concerned with conflict ; indeed for him the driving force of history is based upon conflict between different groups or classes within society . |
| 25 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 26 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 27 | The notion of subsidiarity as being a fail-safe device against the destruction of national powers by the centralising force of Brussels is a misleading one . |
| 28 | The driving force behind empowerment is Jack Kemp , secretary of housing and urban development . |
| 29 | To meet force with force is successful only if the defender is as strong as the attacker . |
| 30 | In Scandinavia , at this time , development was slower , the cities poorer and smaller , universities late to appear and the prime force in life was commercial , seen chiefly in dependence on the Hanseatic League . |