Example sentences of "bound [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pharmaceuticals business — which was bound to suffer when the US patents expired last year on Tenormin , a beta-blocker and one of the world 's most successful drugs has been further hit by the failure of two products in which a lot of money and hope had been invested . |
| 2 | A person dealing with an administrative receiver in good faith is not bound to inquire if the receiver is acting within his powers . |
| 3 | And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere . |
| 4 | So whilst I 'm not seeking to change the the the Greater York I E within the greenbelt requirement as we now define it , the the supply side of the equation is bound to change because the commitments figures will be different given the revised area of analysis . |
| 5 | The median has a precise mathematical definition which is absolutely right , and my hon. Friend is correct in saying that the median is bound to alter if the number at the bottom of the scale is changed . |
| 6 | And problems are bound to arise when the attitudes of the spouse towards a particular country are completely different from that of the employee . |
| 7 | ‘ The cynics are bound to say that the solicitor would have to recover the time spent on an apparently free comprehensive audit by undertaking some recommendations , ’ said . |
| 8 | Despite a certain aversion from yet another stirring of recollection I am bound to say that the material of the film is handled with command . |
| 9 | Special fabrics are often used for the backs of sacks to assist in combatting perspiration which is bound to occur when the sack is close to your back . |
| 10 | There are some other interesting strategies recommended in the book and as someone who has always been frustrated by his inability to draw nicely I am bound to admit that the exercises suggested by Miss Edwards have brought about an unexpected improvement in my performance as a draughtsman . |