Example sentences of "they [verb] been obliged " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family was so poor that they 'd been obliged to sell him . |
| 2 | The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah — they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society , so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit , that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed . |
| 3 | On enquiring of the cause , Susa-no-wo was told they had been obliged to offer their eight daughters , one by one , to the eight-headed dragon of Koshi and it was now the turn of the last daughter . |
| 4 | More importantly They were also recruiting persons whom they had been obliged to make redundant in the face of earlier downturns and who were fully conversant with their own particular operations . |
| 5 | Either they had been obliged to renew such contracts , perhaps several times , and had thus come under pressure to give the workers concerned permanent status , or they had found themselves carrying workers whose fixed-term contracts had not yet expired , despite the fact that they were no longer needed . |
| 6 | There were many more ardent Communists , but ever since the twenties they had been obliged to keep very quiet indeed . |
| 7 | In 1983 they even considered leaving the EMS ; since then they have been obliged to keep their interest rates 2% or 3% higher than in Germany , in pursuit of a strong franc . |
| 8 | With the exception of one firm which has only males , they have been obliged to employ women on keyboards , because when they advertised for operators , no men came forward . |