Example sentences of "[pers pn] be bound [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 2 | But I mean , then I was bound to be very bored , except |
| 3 | But she 's bound to be rather boring , so they wo n't want to stay all that long . ’ |
| 4 | She 's bound to be very worried about you . ’ |
| 5 | They 're bound to be wide awake . ’ |
| 6 | It 's bound to be terribly complicated . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , whatever it means , it is bound to be enormously complicated . |
| 8 | If it is to do this in a more precise , less trade-distorting way , it is bound to be less helpful to big and efficient farms than to small ones . |
| 9 | Oh he 's bound to be now . |
| 10 | Erm I ca n't tell you what time he 'll be home really erm well say in the twenty minutes he 's bound to be home cos he he 's been home and then he 's had to shoot out again , he 's gone to get the battery so he wo n't be long . |
| 11 | He 's bound to be in by now — he 's always early . |
| 12 | I could just tell them to get there , be there , keep watch there , because he 's bound to be there , has to be there , there of all places . |
| 13 | When taken with the latitude allowed by the instruction to ‘ operate in the public interest ’ , it is easy to see that , with such imprecise targets , it was bound to be extremely difficult to assess the performance of nationalised industries . |
| 14 | We recognise that logically this demands a transfer of resources and effort from the former to the latter , that in the words I have so often quoted , some social services are ‘ excessive ’ and others ‘ inadequate ’ — that it was bound to be so and that it is so . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought the idea was to let the funeral go ahead , or at least make it look like it was ; he was bound to be here . |
| 16 | But he was bound to be right still about something . |