Example sentences of "[noun sg] be bound [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder are bound to be increasingly affected by the absence from the shelves of a considerable number of titles . |
| 2 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 3 | He has worked very hard and the result is bound to be very close . ’ |
| 4 | With increasing longevity more families will become four and five generation ones , often influenced emotionally by some very elderly relative , so that development of this area of therapy is bound to be fruitful . |
| 5 | When , in any group of persons , the ego is subjected to such invidious versions of itself through social beliefs , ideology and tradition , the effect is bound to be pernicious . |
| 6 | It is obvious that , heard horizontally , this series on its own would give no tonal impression , and if any group of three or more notes is used vertically as a chord the effect is bound to be dissonant and non-tonal . |
| 7 | the district judge held that each defendant was bound to be found negligent . |
| 8 | Vanguard had performed well in the 1974 elections but , as Sarah Nelson notes , ‘ The VUP 's future was bound to be in doubt once it shed its two distinctive Vanguard features : militant opposition to British domination and alliance with workers and paramilitants . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Most action was bound to be like this — a span , long or short , in which one did nothing — could do nothing except be at the mercy of one 's nerves — and then the moment , the test … |
| 11 | ‘ Working in a much smaller department , my work is bound to be more varied . |
| 12 | It is an extraordinary account , but then any vision of life at the end of the universe is bound to be . |
| 13 | Flexibility is bound to be required to take account , for example , of a sudden increase in a particular type of work , of a complex transaction of such importance that the partners dealing with it must be on constant standby , of parents wishing to be free during school holidays . |
| 14 | ‘ But the impact of rationing on the small , independent cheese-making sector is bound to be greater than on larger sectors . ’ |
| 15 | Try to understand that the child is bound to be angry and resentful . |
| 16 | People in northern climes , on the other hand , are unlikely to have been exposed to leprosy in every-day life and a positive result in the test is bound to be due to vaccination . |
| 17 | Walking during this heatwave was bound to be warm work and I was determined to avoid sandwiches of chalk and modelling clay . |
| 18 | Separation was bound to be painful , and the republics are now in the middle of their most serious tiff since independence . |
| 19 | A good weather forecast is a vital element of this preparation , and by effectively pricing the service out of the reach of many hillwalkers ' pockets , compromises in safety are bound to be made and unnecessary risks taken , leading to accidents and perhaps ( in extreme conditions ) loss of lift . |
| 20 | Where a limited amount of money is available for allocation amongst competing demands , attention is bound to be focused on the procedures by which recipients are selected and others excluded . |
| 21 | Authenticity of language in the classroom is bound to be , to some extent , an illusion . |
| 22 | Apart from this finding , judgement in determining who is a good leader is bound to be subjective to a certain extent . |
| 23 | In small interest categories the choice of stock offered to users at any one service point is bound to be restricted — despite the bias introduced by the square root formula . |
| 24 | The process was bound to be self-accelerating , as new cities provided new opportunities for greater cultural contact . |
| 25 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 26 | Of course , our conscious rationalizations of our own significance and the significance of our art are bound to be quite illusory . |
| 27 | ‘ Surely mineral water 's bound to be still . |
| 28 | Thus a social security system that includes a significant proportion of means-testing is bound to be age discriminatory in its effects . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , whilst Lord Denning 's view does not represent the law on this topic , it is submitted that his lack of faith in the traditional approach because the question of reasonableness is bound to be viewed with hindsight , is a valid criticism . |