Example sentences of "[verb] be bound [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative .
2 One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’
3 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 .
4 All the other decisions that were taken were bound to be opposed by the local community , the local youth and community staff and so on .
5 A cake plate so temptingly situated is bound to be fought over .
6 Then , gripping her lips firmly together , because whatever else she said was bound to be wrong , Ellie continued to stare at Phena in horror and worry .
7 But to ascertain what the Algerian people wanted and what the French people would accept was bound to be a gradual process .
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