Example sentences of "bound to be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the numbers taught by their parents without any formal schooling is unknowable , there is still bound to be a close relationship between the availability and take-up of schooling and the literacy level . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 4 | There is bound to be a certain tension between employer and employee over wages and conditions . |
| 5 | But there is bound to be a strong challenge from Stitch Them Up , also based at Brough , which won an open for trainer Tom Robinson at Sunderland on Monday night . |
| 6 | What these sins were Roger of Howden does not tell us and any guess is bound to be a subjective one , reflecting upon ourselves and upon our age rather than upon Richard 's behaviour . |
| 7 | But to ascertain what the Algerian people wanted and what the French people would accept was bound to be a gradual process . |
| 8 | ‘ Now in a place like this , ’ Tuppe began , ‘ there 's bound to be a heavy-metal band breaking up the room . |
| 9 | It 's bound to be a good thing . |
| 10 | Coun Harker said : ‘ I think anything to reduce the speed limit coming into West Auckland is bound to be a good idea . |
| 11 | I do n't know even what the panto is , but it 's bound to be a good one if it 's Dinda , yeah . |
| 12 | To be totally deaf was bound to be a professional handicap , and after some difficulty , Frank managed to secure the post of assistant doctor in the South Wales coalfield of Aberffrwd , where he served his apprenticeship as a general practitioner from 1908 until 1915 . |
| 13 | ALTHOUGH it is bound to be a finite group , each of those I 've mentioned can be broken down into sub |
| 14 | In some premises there is bound to be a high incidence of small fires for which conventional forms of fire attack by the occupants would be appropriate . |
| 15 | Similarly , the settling of accounts with those who had collaborated ( the épuration ) was bound to be a messy and divisive process , whose excesses of lenience or harshness were inevitably blamed on de Gaulle . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm bound to be a marked man because of the goals I 've scored this season , but there will be more along soon — I 'm sure of that . |
| 17 | Because that is bound to be a volatile part of the business . |
| 18 | In particular , there is bound to be a large amount of work involved in buying a number of small annuities over the years and it may be difficult to get the appropriate advice at the time . |
| 19 | Its proposed parliament for Scotland , whatever its structure or method of election , is bound to be a subsidiary organ to Westminster because Labour members are unionists . |
| 20 | With the Easter holidays upon us it 's bound to be a popular choice among children everywhere — and those , who like me , never want to grow up . |
| 21 | By its nature , the service sector of any economy is bound to be an inflationary part of that economy . |
| 22 | The first response of any seller in a strong position is bound to be an impossible one , and so this is . |
| 23 | Perhaps because the Galapagos was bound to be an explosive issue , and he was still unsure of his findings , Darwin decided to publish a more general Zoology of the Beagle 's voyage on some uniform plan . |
| 24 | This is an opportunity to be built on when it occurs as the insurer 's preference for its own panel members is bound to be an initial issue ; at the same time as asserting the client 's right to choose , panel membership can be discussed . |
| 25 | But for readers with some knowledge of speech act theory , literary theory , or both , this is bound to be an interesting read . |
| 26 | They argue that segmentation at distinct levels of description is bound to be an errorful process given the highly parallel encoding of information in the acoustic waveform . |