Example sentences of "[modal v] be forced [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourth , County Councils should be forced to meet their obligations to provide smallholdings and allotments , and should not be allowed to sell them off . |
| 2 | Fourthly erm there 's the problem of coercion that is some people might be forced to cast their vote one way or another or feel they 're forced to cast a vote one way or another erm which is something we are less erm familiar with . |
| 3 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 4 | For instance , women may be forced to leave their job for domestic reasons or to follow their partner to a new job . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Some pundits believe British designers may be forced to take their talents abroad in order to survive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Men may be forced to change their laws but God does not change his . |
| 9 | Some companies , with branch factories outwith the Borders , may be forced to solve their problems by expanding those satellite operations . |
| 10 | Many general practitioners feared that non-fundholders would be forced to restrict their referrals to hospitals with which their district health authority had contracts , which might inhibit their freedom to refer outside the boundaries of their local district . |
| 11 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A number of sole practitioners also feared that they would be forced to abandon their time honoured manual accounting procedures in favour of computerised systems in order to secure the required approval . |
| 14 | With allocation of places based ever more firmly around the notion of parental choice , it was expected that schools would be forced to raise their standards to meet the qualitative expectations of parents . |
| 15 | Whatever the legal rights and wrongs , so long as the Angevins actually held Gisors they were clearly negotiating from a position of strength and could reasonably hope that one day the King of France would be forced to concede their case . |
| 16 | Wholesalers who use the Coleraine plant will be forced to move their cattle and sheep to Ballymena or Dungannon if no buyer steps in . |
| 17 | ‘ You see , my little licentiate , when these retired schoolmarms and redundant bank officials pitch up in the petrified era , they will be forced to test their high-tech equipment to its very limit . |
| 18 | If the police wish to limit an assembly to below the number 20 , they will be forced to use their common law powers to prevent a breach of the peace , which survive the Act intact . |
| 19 | If the Treasury underestimates the level of inflation , as it has every incentive to do , departments will be forced to cut their spending further in real terms to keep within the limits . |
| 20 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 21 | This activity , in so far as it is successful , will be inflationary because , to maintain their profit margins , the ‘ following ’ industries will be forced to raise their prices . |
| 22 | But whereas institutions can be forced to change their behaviour — I can , for example , request that my bank address me routinely as Ms rather than Miss , in everyday encounters unregulated by institutions , matters are less clear-cut . |
| 23 | Users can be forced to change their passwords at set intervals , and you can examine an audit trail of a user 's previous passwords , and set up temporary accounts . |