Example sentences of "force [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite being forced to reshuffle their defence so early , Tranmere held out manfully with goalkeeper-skipper Eric Nixon making a string of fine saves . |
| 2 | The Plain , a goal ahead in the tenth minute through Colin Milburn , were forced to reshuffle their line-up following an injury to Peter McCusker . |
| 3 | Yet when we are involved personally we are forced to acknowledge their existence and to try to understand them . |
| 4 | The demand for good songs occurs when people who have grown up with pop are forced to accommodate their love of pop within their new sense of themselves as responsible adults . |
| 5 | THE GODFATHERS have been forced to cancel their British tour , which was due to start this week , after bassist Chris Coyne sprained his wrists fighting off two muggers . |
| 6 | The band were forced to cancel their appearance at the recent MTV awards ceremony due to Gallup 's ill health . |
| 7 | TEST DEPT were forced to cancel their gig at London Malet Street ULU on October 31 due to illness . |
| 8 | TEST DEPT were forced to cancel their gig at London Malet Street ULU on October 31 due to illness . |
| 9 | Those less wealthy are forced to see their training as a means of gaining work abroad , so as to repay education loans or to pay for the schooling of a younger member of the family . |
| 10 | They will eventually be forced to adjust their attitudes towards regional security to allow for popular attitudes , rather than for Western preference , or face dangerous domestic unrest and a radical intensification of Islam and Arab nationalism . |
| 11 | The pillar itself gave several excellent pitches on sound granite , but on the second night on the pillar the wind was so strong that Venables and Renshaw were forced to pitch their tent inside a chimney , squeezed onto a jammed block . |
| 12 | Although both men were forced to modify their opinions later in life , initially they held the extreme ‘ nominalist ’ and ‘ essentialist ’ positions . |
| 13 | And this month it looked like losing any semblance of true commercial independence when its two biggest shareholders , Spain 's El Pais and Italy 's La Repubblica newspaper groups , said they may be forced to increase their joint stake to 50% by investing more money in it . |
| 14 | Fourth , County Councils should be forced to meet their obligations to provide smallholdings and allotments , and should not be allowed to sell them off . |
| 15 | Have you heard the one about the EastEnders stars who are forced to provide their own fags for smoking scenes ? |
| 16 | Earlier he and Ken Flach were forced to default their doubles quarter-final because of Flach 's ankle injury . |
| 17 | The Customs and Excise , with all its ancillary departments , were forced to re-structure their systems to bring them into line with European countries and this reorganisation took place over the next few years . |
| 18 | Trainers by the dozen are being forced to sell their stables . |
| 19 | Because of debts they are often forced to sell their land and therefore lose the means of livelihood that their family has known and understood over the generations . |
| 20 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | The unconventional methods might raise an eyebrow but Wimbledon are a club struggling on meagre gates and forever forced to sell their best players to survive . |
| 22 | Yeah , I think people feel uneasy about the whole subject of surrogacy because we know that sometimes rich women have paid poor women er , for surrogacy or adoption and I think we want that choice to be a free one , in which case we have to raise their material circumstances so no one is forced to sell their baby , just as no one should be forced to sell , you know , their blood ! |
| 23 | Her parents , who had been forced to sell their house in London , had moved to Chiswick in 1893 . |
| 24 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 25 | Trapped in a cost-cutting spiral , Computone and Specialix — plus Chase Research Inc which is rumoured to be courting a buyer — are being forced to streamline their organisations . |
| 26 | The company makes parts such as landing gear and propellors for the airospace industry — hard hit by the recession they 've been forced to streamline their operation , shedding three hundred and twenty four jobs . |
| 27 | And faced with the fact that their son had not only absconded , breaking his apprentice 's bond , but was earning his living by fraud — a bogus worker of miracles — his family would be forced to open their doors , obliged to beggar themselves in harbouring the Miracle Pageant right through the winter . |
| 28 | In the words of Gallopin and Berrera ( 1979 ) ; ‘ They ( the poor ) may be forced to destroy their own environment in attempts to delay their own destruction . ’ |
| 29 | The men were tormented by fleas and suffered agonies of thirst ; by the end they were forced to drink their own urine . |
| 30 | Some students are forced to choose their university by the chance of getting a place in the crèche . |