Example sentences of "was obliged [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Bills were defeated and before the third was passed Grey was obliged to dissolve the House , fight a general election and engage in a fierce struggle with the House of Lords . |
| 2 | His first choice for composer had been the imperial court composer Salieri , who for complicated reasons was obliged to decline the offer . |
| 3 | Taxis vanished as the rain gathered momentum , and he was obliged to take the Métro from Etoile to Concorde station . |
| 4 | As Louise seemed unwilling to come to the boats , Nenna was obliged to take the girls to tea at the luxurious Carteret . |
| 5 | The opposition Social Democrats refused to support the package , however , and the Riksbank ( the central bank ) was obliged to float the krona on the exchange markets , resulting in an effective 9 per cent devaluation [ see also p. 39206 ] . |
| 6 | In these circumstances , on a constitutional matter , I was obliged to leave the Cabinet … |
| 7 | There was a small explosion at the ramparts several yards away , but it was nothing to worry about … only Harry trying to free the long , iron six-pounder in which the head of a French cynic , Voltaire , had become jammed … rather surprisingly , the Collector thought , a narrow , lozenge-shaped head like that ; Harry had been unable to ram the head home to the cartridge and so , according to normal procedure , was obliged to destroy the charge by pouring water down the vent ; followed by a small quantity of powder , also through the vent , to blow out his makeshift shot . |
| 8 | On 3 September , Conrad was obliged to order the evacuation of Lemberg . |
| 9 | Despite these difficulties Nicholas was obliged to order the creation of a much larger militia in January 1855 . |
| 10 | In the case of a sentence of six months or less , with certain exceptions such as where the offence involved violence , the possession of firearms , explosives or offensive weapons , or indecent conduct with a person aged under sixteen , the court was obliged to suspend the sentence . |
| 11 | Following the threat of a national rail strike , Schimberni was obliged to suspend the proposal , which envisaged cutting 29,000 jobs , and to enter into discussions with the labour organizations . |
| 12 | During that first year in Fontanellato I was obliged to join the most junior of the Fascist organizations and became a Piccola Italiana , a little Italian . |
| 13 | The Mayor was obliged to adjourn the meeting pending discussion by the Corporation . |
| 14 | Still recounting his own story , Escoffier reported that the following year the factory at Saxon , all set to manufacture a quantity of the canned crushed tomatoes , was obliged to abandon the project because of the loss of the tomato crop owing to periods of intense cold that summer . |
| 15 | He was obliged to transfer the ownership of his ships to his nephews in order , narrowly , to avoid disqualification as a government contractor . |
| 16 | The new terminals down the Gulf were easier targets and NIOC was obliged to attempt the contingency planning of some onshore schemes to ensure the continuing arrival of Khuzestan crudes at the Gulf coast . |
| 17 | But as Freud , with his own particular brand of madness and insistence , pressed on into a more realist style , Minton was obliged to recognise the power of his intensely probing vision . |
| 18 | The conservation organisations maintained that Britain was obliged to protect the site under a European Community directive on Birds and the Berne Convention , a European wildlife treaty . |
| 19 | Very reluctantly MI6 was obliged to accept the terrible fact that Blake was a long-time Russian spy . |
| 20 | Firstly , the growth of corporate enterprise falsified the theory that in any given industry there were numerous small firms so that each firm had no market power but was obliged to accept the market price for its products . |
| 21 | In the end each successive British government was obliged to trust the Americans , and to hope that circumstances would not arise when it disagreed with American policy . |
| 22 | Here is what she typed on the computer : UMMK JK CDZZ F ZD DSDSKSM S SS FMCV PU I DDRGLKDXRRDO RDTE QDWFDVIOY UDSKZWDCCVYT H CHVY NMGNBAYTDFCCVD D RCDFYYYRM N DFSKD LD K WDWK JJKAUIZMZI UXKIDISFUMDKUDXI She has other important calls on her time , so I was obliged to program the computer to simulate a randomly typing baby or monkey : WDLDMNLT DTJBKWIRZREZLMQCO P Y YVMQKZPGJXWVHGLAWFVCHQYOPY MWR SWTNUXMLCDLEUBXTQHNZVJQF FU OVAODVYKDGXDEKRVMOGGS VT HZQZDSFZIHIVPHZPETPWVOVPMZGF GEWRGZRPBCTPGQMCKHFDBGW ZCCF And so on and on . |
| 23 | In the end , since there were no volunteers , the Magistrate was obliged to send the Eurasian women , half a dozen of whom had been quietly living in the Residency pantry and had spread their bedding on the pantry shelves . |
| 24 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 25 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 26 | It is only days since Spain was obliged to devalue the peseta ( which was not , as it happens , misaligned ) at great financial and political cost to its government . |
| 27 | Minton was obliged to register the jeep in his own name as Norman as yet had only a provisional licence . |
| 28 | It was not with any encouragement from himself that she began to address him as Vic , but he was obliged to concede the point . |
| 29 | L. G. Mitchell commenting on Henry Purefoy 's letters to craftsmen suggests that the owner of an estate was obliged to suffer the seasonal idleness of a local craftsman since he was difficult to replace . |
| 30 | Wolfgang told Leopold that he was obliged to write the piece at great speed , and that the four soloists were ‘ completely in love with it ’ . |