Example sentences of "is bound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the illustrations in any general book relatively few are in colour ; a careful author is bound to consider which works suffer least from being reproduced in black and white . |
| 2 | Salim is bound by certain of the rules and assumptions of kinship . |
| 3 | Their deeply held view on this matter is bound up with their interpretation of political realities . |
| 4 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 5 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 6 | The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation . |
| 7 | However , winning the Trophée des Mères Cuisinières will bring her valuable publicity : ‘ It 's an important media event which is bound to attract a new clientele . ’ |
| 8 | Of course , unless the pilot is aware that the glider is stalled , he is bound to respond instinctively at first , applying full aileron and rudder to try to stop the rapid wing-drop and pulling right back to try to stop the nose dropping . |
| 9 | If the cloud base is low , there is bound to be a risk of coming out under the cloud and being unable to reach an area where it is not raining . |
| 10 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 11 | Any attempt to actually draw the circle is bound to have some kind of imperfection , such as the irregularities if a bit mapped device , or servo non-linearities in an X-Y plotter . |
| 12 | In the medium term , the pace of political reform in neighbouring Poland and in Hungary is bound further to increase the dissatisfaction of East Germans . |
| 13 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 14 | Up to 10,000 armed Palestinians live in Sidon and the surrounding hills , and the PLO is bound to be accused by its enemies of involvement in the kidnappings at the very moment when President Mubarak of Egypt is trying to involve PLO supporters in peace talks with Israel . |
| 15 | MICHEL ROCARD 'S Socialist government faces a vote of no confidence today which it is bound to win . |
| 16 | ‘ I think the housing market is bound to be psychologically affected , ’ said Gary Marsh , head of research for the Halifax . |
| 17 | He is bound to realise he can hurt the reformists most by joining them . |
| 18 | If everybody knows everybody else and they all go to the same parties , then there is bound to be a certain unanimity , if not in their judgements at least in their objects of attention . |
| 19 | The steering group 's proposals may seem a touch elaborate but , for two reasons , appraisal in education is bound to be more complex than in other areas of life . |
| 20 | The main shift , however , is in the new emphasis the White Paper is bound to place on intervention and regulation , words that have been regarded as mostly unpalatable in Tory conference debates over the past decade . |
| 21 | Lyonnais des Eaux already owns the two big statutory water companies in Northumbrian 's region and is bound to have ambitions for the region as a whole . |
| 22 | What he does with the power is bound to be upsetting . |
| 23 | Tampopo might have sold a few more bowls of noodles and Babette 's Feast caused little hiccups of interest in historic cooking , but The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover plays around with the relationship between food , sex and death in a way that is bound to cause offence . |
| 24 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 25 | You walking about playing bagpipes is bound to attract enemy fire on to us ! ’ |
| 26 | On the contrary it seems to be that , as the respective numbers become closer together , or even tend to overbalance in the opposite direction , alienation is bound to progress . |
| 27 | Once again in this phrase reaction against the nineteenth century is bound to a standpoint which relies on anthropology . |
| 28 | Highly charged personal reminiscence is bound up with the anthropological perspective which gives it an impersonal respectability . |
| 29 | Hinsley is bound by all kinds of rules about what he can and can not reveal , in the ‘ national interest ’ , of which the authorities are the sole arbiters . |
| 30 | Maggie feels no doubt about that : so small a word , so small and so necessary a word is bound to survive , to slip through the net of destruction that she and Fenna — no , that she herself , alone — will loose on the cold sky tonight . |