Example sentences of "were obliged [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 2 | According to this rule , all male members of the community were obliged to wait until the age of twenty to marry and sire children ; at the age of thirty , they were to be regarded as mature and initiated into the higher ranks of the sect . |
| 3 | The Bolshevik delegates were obliged to withdraw from the Soviet . |
| 4 | The cheaper carriage rates forced the canal companies to lower their charges ; in turn this reduced the boatmen 's wages and many of them were obliged to move off the land and take their families onto the boats . |
| 5 | This has two aspects : that all the members of a group were obliged to join in the fighting or threats ; and that there was some automatic trigger contained in the genealogy which determined the number of the combatants . |
| 6 | It follows that in my judgment the public law duties of the council were not discharged until they had completed the process of deciding on the suitable accommodation which they were obliged to secure for the plaintiff . |
| 7 | The effect of these and of the accumulation of abandoned baggage was such that it was , according to Ney 's aide-de-camp , Col Levasseur , ‘ impossible to walk upright in the streets and the infantry were obliged to crawl under the waggons in order to get through . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Many of the soldiers , ’ it was recorded , ‘ were obliged to lye on the ground tho' [ it was ] covered with snow , ’ and ‘ could get nothing to eat after marching thirteen hours . ’ |
| 9 | When a member of the royal family died , their lords and ladies-in-waiting were obliged to stay by the bed while the head was sawn open and examined . |
| 10 | For many years paleontologists were obliged to work with the swamp-dweller model of the sauropods . |
| 11 | Even Jews who had been released from concentration camps on strict condition that they left the Fatherland immediately were obliged to pay for the round trip . |
| 12 | The United States , the United Kingdom , and France were obliged to abstain from the vote on Resolution 731 ( 1992 ) because they are parties to this dispute with Libya over allegations surrounding the Lockerbie and UIA bombings that were the very subject matter of this resolution . |
| 13 | Until March 1990 all political parties were obliged to belong to the Front national pour la défence de la révolution ( FNDR — National Front for the Defence of the Revolution ) . |