Example sentences of "that bind them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say voluntary bodies are very nervous about that , because they have difficulty contracting to provide a service when they are totally dependent on unpaid volunteers , and therefore there is reluctance on their part to , to enter into contracts that bind them to provide something where they are uncertain about their ability to do it . |
| 2 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 3 | Horrible as was the deed that bound them in a fascinated confederacy of blood they were , for the first time , having a conversation . |
| 4 | The principal purpose of this book is to examine Ronald Reagan 's efforts to deal with these problems ; to examine the techniques he and his staff used as they sought to break free from the ties that bound them ; and to assess how successful Reagan was in mastering the system of government and in achieving his policy objectives . |
| 5 | Education had been the final tie that bound them , and forever parted them from their contemporaries . |
| 6 | The thread that bound them had snapped with one expert tug . |
| 7 | Probably Tyndall took a design from each and employed Bridges to make the model that bound them all fairly convincingly together as they now stand , each fine in its way but inconsequential . |
| 8 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 9 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 10 | Ironically the easiest thing of all was actually cutting through the rope that bound them . |
| 11 | Light , high tensile strength fibres confer stiffness and strength to a polymer resin that binds them into a rigid three-dimensional form . |
| 12 | And the bond that binds them together is the dynamic concept of the rule of God . |
| 13 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |