Example sentences of "bound [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People who buy these pale impressions of literature instead of the real thing are bound to be disappointed sooner or later . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Walking during this heatwave was bound to be warm work and I was determined to avoid sandwiches of chalk and modelling clay . |
| 4 | Until now my only objection to living in a water-mill had been a conviction that it was bound to be dark , water-mills having a habit of being in valleys , Nigel explained , but it was wonderfully light up there , with two large , deep-set windows . |
| 5 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 6 | He acknowledges the changes are ‘ bound to be controversial ’ and will cause ‘ some outrage ’ . |
| 7 | Because islands are smaller than continents ( by definition ) the populations of each kind of animal are also bound to be small . |
| 8 | It 's bound to be small , if it 's a small part of your house . |
| 9 | The trouble is that any proposed reduction — granting for instance a value of 0.8 to a second preference and 0.6 to a third — is bound to be arbitrary . |
| 10 | Where robots can be seen as potential replacements for people there are bound to be adverse reactions . |
| 11 | The process was bound to be self-accelerating , as new cities provided new opportunities for greater cultural contact . |
| 12 | Some mathematics teachers express the view that there is no need to reconsider how we teach mathematics since , as it deals with universals , it is bound to be multicultural in that its abstract nature reaches across cultural divides . |
| 13 | Of course , any definition of ‘ sufficient public element ’ is bound to be complex and controversial . |
| 14 | Our ideas about rationality , within a pluralistic society , are bound to be complex and fuzzy , but even so we can readily see that certain kinds of rationality are dominant . |
| 15 | The denunciations of dangerous new ideas in the 1950 encyclical Humani Generis are intelligible enough , but by now they were almost bound to be ineffective , and as the intellectual viability of ultramontanism crumbled , the now unprotected power structure surrounding the papal monarchy came more and more into open and criticizable view . |
| 16 | If the diagnosis is uncertain and an array of diagnostic tests is required , then the patient is bound to be anxious both about the tests and the potential results , and inevitably , is worried if surgery is prescribed . |
| 17 | Young intellectuals eager for knowledge , progress and a better future , were bound to be impressed by new solutions to the problems facing contemporary China . |
| 18 | Ten miles away at Ludlow you are bound to be impressed by its looming castle , the delightful mixture of Georgian and medieval architecture and the interesting museum of local history . |
| 19 | And with those computers they were bound to be receptive . ’ |
| 20 | In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife . |
| 21 | But it is bound to be expensive , and defence budgets are being cut . |
| 22 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |
| 23 | you 're bound to be right . |
| 24 | Thus , even in ideal circumstances , merging these two companies was bound to be tricky . |
| 25 | From the start this was bound to be contentious , for it tied in so obviously with concern about newspaper chains , the power of large circulations and the alleged dangers of a too one-sided party press . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , there is bound to be substantial job displacement and creation , and the various tendencies highlighted by the Council for Science and Society ( CSS 1981 ) , and by such writers as Mike Cooley ( n.d. ) and Tony Watts ( 1983 ) , have to be taken seriously . |
| 27 | This line of argument is bound to be disappointing for those looking at aetiological studies in search of implications for prevention . |
| 28 | However , should Gazza and Co. lose , there are bound to be immediate demands for the sacking of manager Dino Zoff . |
| 29 | because there are bound to be certain breaches in view of the comprehensive nature of the Warranties and the complex nature of the Business ; |
| 30 | 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 . |