bound to
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With a bare infinitive Indicates something which cannot be avoided.
- The leaking fuel tank was bound to explode sooner or later.
- There was bound to be friction between a firstborn and his strong-willed stepmother.
2 more examples
- We knew it was bound to happen eventually.
- Still, the real victims of the hung wei ping are ultimately bound to be the hung wei ping themselves.1967, Jacques Marcuse, “Conclusion Inconclusive: A Postscript”, in The Peking Papers, Arthur Barker Limited, published 1968, →OCLC, page 344; republished as “The Red Guards Condemned”, in Colin Mackerras, editor, Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views of China, Oxford University Press, 2000, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149: