Object

• admiration: It is generous enough to disarm the most prickly of authors, and perceptive enough to compel admiration in its own right.

• attendance: There are exceptions to the power to compel attendance or the production of documents.

• witness: However, the Tribunal can compel witnesses to attend.

• compliance: In the traditional public sector, the government official gives instructions and attempts to compel compliance.

Subject

• necessity: The sense of smell, again, is compelled by necessity to refer itself to that same judgment.

• circumstance: I am compelled by circumstance to go, whether I wish it or not.

Infinitive complement

• resign: Following the revelation, the council member had felt compelled to resign from the council.

• surrender: Stephen was quick to recover and promptly laid siege to the city and Hugh was compelled to surrender.

• retire: He was compelled to retire from the active ministry in 1896 through ill health.

• withdraw: Those of their own people who had become partners in the company were compelled to withdraw their subscriptions.

• admit: But I am compelled to admit that if you want to be a rigorous humanist you would have to vote Lib Dem.

• flee: Moses is introduced as an adult, a murderer compelled to flee because his act was witnessed by a Hebrew.

Modifying Another Word

• reluctantly: And among these latter I am compelled reluctantly to number myself.

• strangely: Nevertheless, being thus strangely compelled, the man descended and focused his camera on the snowy roadway.

• thus: She put the box in her pocket, and thus compelled me to keep her ring.

• finally: Their unfavorable reports intensified the worsening situation and finally compelled Percival to surrender.

Preposition: by

• necessity: The sense of smell, again, is compelled by necessity to refer itself to that same judgment.

• circumstance: I am compelled by circumstance to go, whether I wish it or not.