Example sentences of "bound to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , 100% supervision , even of early solo flying , is impractical for 365 days in the year as there are bound to be moments when the instructor 's attention is diverted . |
| 3 | It is often at these times that the glider becomes stalled without the pilot noticing , and then his instincts are bound to be automatic as the nose and wing drops . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It stood to reason that it must be someone 's job ; anything that Mellowes gave me was bound to be . |
| 6 | However hard modern choreographers may try there are bound to be similarities to older ballets because their vocabulary is not limitless . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Those three points are bound to be read as concessions to public opinion , given a series of weekend polls putting Labour as far as 11 points ahead of the Conservatives . |
| 11 | ‘ I think the housing market is bound to be psychologically affected , ’ said Gary Marsh , head of research for the Halifax . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ In the world in which we live there are bound to be periods of turbulence on the foreign exchange markets from time to time . |
| 15 | What he does with the power is bound to be upsetting . |
| 16 | Walking during this heatwave was bound to be warm work and I was determined to avoid sandwiches of chalk and modelling clay . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 20 | Humans are bound to be special cases , since they are more independent of the natural environment than are plants and other animals and this is an area which is not yet fully understood . |
| 21 | Herr Nordern nodded to Karl , took the whisky , and then felt bound to be agreeable . |
| 22 | Both Warnie and Minto were jealous of anyone who claimed Jack 's love ; this meant that they were bound to be jealous of one another , since for both of them Jack was the most important person in the universe . |
| 23 | While this downswing will not be as sharp as the previous downturn ( in 1979-81 ) , not least given the very much lower level of inflation that we now have , a dull 1989 is bound to be followed by a difficult 1990 . ’ |
| 24 | In a passage which is bound to be seen as highly controversial in the present situation in East Germany , Sir Leon said : ‘ If Germany 's partners give the impression of being opposed to reunification this will only increase what is at present a small risk : that some in Germany may be tempted to seek reunification on the basis of doing a unilateral deal with the Soviet Union , involving the setting up of a new unified German state outside the Community . |
| 25 | This is bound to be seen as further evidence that Britain risks cutting itself off from the mainstream of European integration because of hostility both to economic and monetary union and to eventual political union . |
| 26 | Professor Gordon Higginson , Southampton University vice-chancellor , who chaired the committee , said its proposals were quite modest and were bound to be implemented by the mid-1990s . |
| 27 | Any match of nine tries ( five by Stanley 's ) is bound to be entertaining but Oxford committed so many errors in every department that it was hard to keep a straight face while assessing their contribution . |
| 28 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A cake plate so temptingly situated is bound to be fought over . |