Example sentences of "is bound [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The valley of Mallerstang is bound on the east throughout its length by a continuous range of fells consistently above the 2000-ft contour and scarped by cliffs in many places along its crest .
2 The chimney sweep is bound to the church , not only because he cleans the chimneys that pump out the soot that disfigures the church but also because the church preaches a kind of Christianity that can countenance beating , starving and insanely cruel treatment towards chimney sweeps .
3 This pattern is essentially the same as produced in the absence of actinomycin and confirms that at equilibrium insufficient drug is bound to the DNA to produce a footprint .
4 The company is bound to the members in their capacity as members .
5 Once the substrate is bound to the surface of the enzyme , covalent bonds may be formed or broken .
6 Then the rejection of a reading where ‘ him ’ is bound to the dog will cause CLE-1 and the reasoner to cycle through all of John , Bill , Fred , and the vet as candidate referents for ‘ he ’ before a change to the ‘ him ’ binding is considered .
7 Thus it is that Givon 1980 talks of verbs being reduced in finiteness and argues that the degree of reduction is related to the degree to which the event evoked by the complement is bound to the agent or experiencer in terms of his influence over it .
8 The Dornier DO 24 is bound for the Netherlands .
9 Emburey , returning from a two-and-a-half-year South African ban , is bound for the sub-continent while Salisbury joins the A team in Australia .
10 Since the observed footprint is only 6 base pairs , and DNase I is known to overestimate the actual ligand binding site size we tentatively suggest that the bleomycin molecule is bound with the bithiazole oriented in the 5'-direction from the cleavage site .
11 It 's very difficult for Jet to do anything about it because the situation is that Jet is bound by the statutes of the Jet joint undertaking and this is a legal document setting down the conditions under which we work , which has been agreed by governments and the council of ministers , and essentially the situation is that there are two types of people employed in the Jet team .
12 ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed .
13 Impartial advice can be hard to find nowadays , but your solicitor is bound by the Law Society 's rules to give this kind of help , and always to act in your best interests .
14 A new State is bound by the rules of customary international law in existence when it acquires Statehood .
15 Where the exclusion clause is embodied in a signed contract , the general rule is that the signatory is bound by the contents of the document regardless of whether he has read or understood them ( L " Estrange v Graucob Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 394 ) in the absence of the plea of non est factum ( Saunders v Anglia Building Society [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) .
16 The High Court itself is bound by the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal , yet it is not bound by its own previous decisions .
17 The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , which exercises a supervisory capacity over the inferior courts and sits as a court to which an appeal ‘ by way of case stated ’ may be made from the Magistrates ' Court , is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal and its own previous decisions .
18 Perhaps the most important of the tribunals , the industrial tribunal is bound by the House of Lords , the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) and the Employment Appeal Tribunal .
19 There is in my opinion nothing whatever in section 61(1) of the Act of 1967 to suggest that the Secretary of State is bound by the advice of the Lord Chief Justice or the trial judge .
20 What then is the basis for the assumption that an organisation is bound by the terms of its treaty ? 410
21 The common law position appears to be that a dealer is not normally the agent of the finance company , and a customer is bound by the terms of the document , unless the finance company knows that it does not accord with the customer 's intentions ( United Dominions Trust Ltd v Western [ 1976 ] QB 513 ) .
22 Alison Wilding is bound in the direction of Karen Schubert , who felt , last year , that he had come very close to having an artist — Rachel Whiteread — win the award .
23 This time constant ( T2 ) , characterises the duration of the nuclear magnetic resonance signal from water and depends on how water is bound in the tissue .
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