Example sentences of "[noun] [be] bound to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With increasing longevity more families will become four and five generation ones , often influenced emotionally by some very elderly relative , so that development of this area of therapy is bound to be fruitful . |
| 2 | It is obvious that , heard horizontally , this series on its own would give no tonal impression , and if any group of three or more notes is used vertically as a chord the effect is bound to be dissonant and non-tonal . |
| 3 | When , in any group of persons , the ego is subjected to such invidious versions of itself through social beliefs , ideology and tradition , the effect is bound to be pernicious . |
| 4 | A Hungarian with relatives employed at a Timisoara hospital told Budapest radio that at least 250 bodies had been admitted to one hospital and that the death figure was bound to be higher . |
| 5 | Until we can organise our economy properly and bring the general level of unemployment down , progress in those directions is bound to be slow . |
| 6 | ‘ But the impact of rationing on the small , independent cheese-making sector is bound to be greater than on larger sectors . ’ |
| 7 | Try to understand that the child is bound to be angry and resentful . |
| 8 | Since a process of individual wage reductions in such circumstances is bound to be ragged and discontinuous , it will be hedged about with uncertainty and apprehension . |
| 9 | People in northern climes , on the other hand , are unlikely to have been exposed to leprosy in every-day life and a positive result in the test is bound to be due to vaccination . |
| 10 | Walking during this heatwave was bound to be warm work and I was determined to avoid sandwiches of chalk and modelling clay . |
| 11 | Thus , even in ideal circumstances , merging these two companies was bound to be tricky . |
| 12 | Separation was bound to be painful , and the republics are now in the middle of their most serious tiff since independence . |
| 13 | Treasury ideas are bound to be different , and should have to do with choice and with making markets work . |
| 14 | Apart from this finding , judgement in determining who is a good leader is bound to be subjective to a certain extent . |
| 15 | The process was bound to be self-accelerating , as new cities provided new opportunities for greater cultural contact . |
| 16 | A MONTH containing a sun-Pluto conjunction is bound to be memorable — even if you are not directly involved in any major event . |
| 17 | Use of the facility was bound to be capricious until there was some agreement about the intent and purpose in committing the equivalent of a full-time senior post in this way . |
| 18 | No two years are alike , and what succeeds this year may fail next : further , your early plans will be made without complete knowledge of all the factors , and modifications are bound to be necessary . |
| 19 | The point is that working people are bound to be concerned about issues which can not be tackled effectively without central government involvement , issues such as mass unemployment , inflation , industrial decline , poverty , the social effects of government expenditure cuts . |
| 20 | The idea that older people should leave the labour force at some point gained ground in the earlier part of the twentieth century with the popularity of ideas about scientific management , which implied that older people were bound to be inefficient workers . |
| 21 | It should be noted that with low infection rates based on positive cultures ( 145 of 2907 urine samples ) in the antenatal clinics the false negative rate is bound to be low . |
| 22 | This line of argument is bound to be disappointing for those looking at aetiological studies in search of implications for prevention . |
| 23 | Any discussion which leads to teachers sharpening their ideas and ironing out disagreements and misconceptions about aims and objectives is bound to be valuable . |
| 24 | Well , I was bored by the whole of presentation as far as television was concerned because I think television is bound to be superficial . |
| 25 | A revelation from God is bound to be true , ‘ but whether it be a divine revelation , or no , reason must judge ’ . |
| 26 | So , manifested as the co-operative store , Co-operation was bound to be acceptable . |
| 27 | Any research on something as complex as intelligence or the biological effects of very low levels of a substance is bound to be difficult , not least because so many factors are involved . |
| 28 | It was years since she 'd played , of course , and her fingers were bound to be rusty , but she could n't resist trying out some of the pieces of music she used to play so long ago . |
| 29 | He stressed that ‘ Heshang ’ was mainly intended to raise questions and some of the reactions were bound to be critical . |
| 30 | These sorts of policies were bound to be self-defeating , as we indicated in Section 7.2.4 , since the volume of world trade contracted and therefore output and employment stagnated on an international scale . |