Example sentences of "was bound [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stood to reason that it must be someone 's job ; anything that Mellowes gave me was bound to be . |
| 2 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 3 | Walking during this heatwave was bound to be warm work and I was determined to avoid sandwiches of chalk and modelling clay . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was bound to be trouble and it was not long in coming . |
| 7 | Thus , even in ideal circumstances , merging these two companies was bound to be tricky . |
| 8 | Somebody in the blackness around them was bound to be listening . |
| 9 | America was bound to be hopelessly isolationist . |
| 10 | Vanguard had performed well in the 1974 elections but , as Sarah Nelson notes , ‘ The VUP 's future was bound to be in doubt once it shed its two distinctive Vanguard features : militant opposition to British domination and alliance with workers and paramilitants . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I should think he looked around for something heavy that would take glue , and with all that junk lying around there was bound to be something . |
| 12 | This meant that his grandad was temporarily unavailable for a ‘ tap ’ , but there was bound to be someone in the cafe who would stand him a coffee . |
| 13 | Putting air pollution , especially invisible , smokeless pollution , back onto the political agenda , particularly in the teeth of determined opposition from the CEGB , was bound to be difficult . |
| 14 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 15 | The enthusiastic reception of the illuminated cars was such that any future occasion was bound to be graced by their presence . |
| 16 | After Tommy any change was bound to be for the worse , but really ! |
| 17 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 18 | To be totally deaf was bound to be a professional handicap , and after some difficulty , Frank managed to secure the post of assistant doctor in the South Wales coalfield of Aberffrwd , where he served his apprenticeship as a general practitioner from 1908 until 1915 . |
| 19 | It was heresy , of course , but the show was likely to last another hour at least — Saint Laurent was famous for the length of his shows — and afterwards there was bound to be the most fearful crush . |
| 20 | Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story . |
| 21 | The gap between the ride and the swamp was a different matter , for if the children were attempting that route their progress was bound to be slow . |
| 22 | But it was hard to express gratitude for what was bound to be seen as a harsh deprivation — the loss of natural family . |
| 23 | He is n't a rapist but there was bound to be some sexual element . ’ |
| 24 | She just knew , she knew with absolute certainty , that in this vast , noisy , busy city , something would happen to her , and it was bound to be something good . |
| 25 | This was my big chance — on the other end was bound to be some beefcake . |
| 26 | He has hitched his wagon to more stars than a Romany king yet he 'd have put down lifelong roots at first love Manchester City , and not just because a ground called Maine Road was bound to be his spiritual home . |
| 27 | There was bound to be some tension when he teamed with Marlon Brando for Guys and Dolls in 1955 . |
| 28 | John Strachey , a leading Left Book Club and Communist intellectual , wrote to his schoolfriend Robert Boothby — now a left-wing Tory MP — reassuring him that the left would support a pact with the Tory dissidents , even if the Communist Party was excluded ( which it was bound to be ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , although the dramatic progress , in terms of productivity , made by Jaguar since privatisation is acknowledged , critics claim that it was bound to be a takeover candidate before too long , as it was a small player in a market which was becoming increasingly concentrated . |