Example sentences of "have [be] forced " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule of law in Sri Lanka has been seriously eroded : in the past three years , over a dozen lawyers have been murdered because of their involvement with human rights cases and at least 20 others have been forced to flee the country after receiving death threats . |
| 2 | Throughout this miserable summer , Scottish climbers have been forced to climb in places like Malham Cove : hardly the place to nourish the soul ( and the routes are a bit hard ! ) . |
| 3 | They have been forced to make two late changes . |
| 4 | If either had applied promptly , the appellant would have brought into the action at an earlier stage and the defendant would , in all probability , have been forced to give consideration then to the making of a claim to contribution in respect of his liability , if proved , to the plaintiff . |
| 5 | She would not dispute the fact that , by contrast , the Bundesbank is very good indeed at it , nor that since inflation-prone countries , such as France and Italy , joined the Deutschmark-dominated ERM their inflation rates have been forced down to German levels . |
| 6 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 7 | For Lloyd 's entire 300-year history its underwriters have been forced to specialise in one of the four traditional classes — marine , non-marine , aviation and motor . |
| 8 | Over 60 descendants of the rubber barons , who continued exploiting the inhabitants , have been forced to leave . |
| 9 | For Lloyd 's entire 300-year history its underwriters have been forced to specialise in one of the four traditional classes — marine , non-marine , aviation and motor . |
| 10 | SCOTTISH police investigating the Lockerbie bombing have been forced to return empty-handed from Sweden after the terrorist suspect Mohammed Abu Talb refused to be interviewed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some schools are so overburdened by all this activity that they have been forced to draft in extra staff to deal with the more mundane aspects of education — like teaching children . |
| 13 | Major and minor shows alike have been forced to broaden their appeal to keep the turnstiles clicking and cover rising costs . |
| 14 | She had therefore sent advance copies to Prince Albert , the Earl of Shaftesbury and Charles Kingsley to whom she referred to ‘ that awful book I have been forced to write ’ . |
| 15 | The ‘ Old Guard ’ , no longer playing a role at Central Office , has muttered darkly about the inexperience of the ‘ Brat Pack ’ : the Young Guns say it 's not their fault , that they have been forced into the background by more experienced campaigners . |
| 16 | Instead the Football League have been forced to rearrange any replay for Everton 's 39,000-capacity Goodison Park on May 6 . |
| 17 | WHILE the economy has performed its own high-wire act , news reaches me of a circus whose partners have been forced into personal bankruptcy . |
| 18 | Costain , Tarmac , John Laing and Higgs & Hill have been forced to make huge provisions and cut their dividends . |
| 19 | Many farmers have been forced to respond to economic pressures or to accept considerably reduced incomes . |
| 20 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 21 | Teachers have been forced to teach in a way that could be useful to those who had no natural bent for literature at all . |
| 22 | For this reason , we have been forced to increase our minimum sum insured to £17,500 . |
| 23 | In recent years most academic libraries have been forced to cut back on periodical provision , to prevent serials from running away with unreasonable proportions of their budgets for materials ( see pp. 135–8 ) . |
| 24 | Consequently many activist teachers have been forced to leave the country after threats to themselves and their families . |
| 25 | The Campa Indians have been forced into the more remote regions of Gran Pajonal due to the migration of Peruvian settlers from the coastal and Andean cities . |
| 26 | They have been forced to confront two important facts . |
| 27 | According to one source , ministers supporting the project , who include Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , have been forced to lie low after the Prime Minister 's outburst . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Notably Kent , whose player costs soared by 27 per cent between 1990 and 1991 and account for over 40 per cent of its total costs , have been forced to cut to 20 . |
| 30 | From the evidence available , I have been forced to conclude that there are indeed good reasons for most , although not always all , of the large price differential . |