Example sentences of "were bound to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young intellectuals eager for knowledge , progress and a better future , were bound to be impressed by new solutions to the problems facing contemporary China . |
| 2 | It was years since she 'd played , of course , and her fingers were bound to be rusty , but she could n't resist trying out some of the pieces of music she used to play so long ago . |
| 3 | And with those computers they were bound to be receptive . ’ |
| 4 | He stressed that ‘ Heshang ’ was mainly intended to raise questions and some of the reactions were bound to be critical . |
| 5 | In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife . |
| 6 | But then , as RSPB members we were bound to be biased ! |
| 7 | Henry II would need to have been an unusually stupid man not to realize that there were bound to be difficult moments in the relationship between him and his heir . |
| 8 | These sorts of policies were bound to be self-defeating , as we indicated in Section 7.2.4 , since the volume of world trade contracted and therefore output and employment stagnated on an international scale . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The idea that older people should leave the labour force at some point gained ground in the earlier part of the twentieth century with the popularity of ideas about scientific management , which implied that older people were bound to be inefficient workers . |