Example sentences of "to be held [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Although progress on the issue of the local elections had been made in August , it became increasingly clear that opposition demands for them to be held prior to the presidential poll were unrealistic . |
2 | Your specific tasks within that given work are assigned to you by a person called your manager ( or boss or supervisor ) , who ought to be held accountable for the work you do . |
3 | Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland . |
4 | If anyone is ever to be held responsible for the steerable revolution , it has to be one of these two eccentric personalities . |
5 | The state of destination is given a discretion ( though the convention does not specify by which organ of the state the discretion is to be exercised ) to execute a letter rogatory which does not indicate the person to be held responsible for the costs and expenses ; the point here is that there is a discretion to refuse to execute letters in such circumstances . |
6 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
7 | Subject to the contrary agreement of the partners : ( 5 ) Every partner may take part in the management of the partnership business ( 7 ) No partner may be introduced as a partner without the consent of all existing partners ( 8 ) Any difference arising as to ordinary matters connected with the partnership business may be decided by a majority of the partners , but no change may be made in the nature of the partnership business without the consent of all existing partners It is obvious enough that if a partner is to be held responsible for the acts of his co-partners committed in the name of the firm he should in principle have : ( 1 ) unrestricted access to information about those acts ; ( 2 ) every right , indeed a duty , to assume personal responsibility ( equally with his co-partners ) for the conduct of the firm 's affairs ; and ( 3 ) the right ( by exercise of a veto ) to prevent any act for which he is unwilling to accept liability . |
8 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
9 | In determining whether the defendants ought to be held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , the learned judge considered that he ought to pay regard to ( i ) the quantities of combustible materials which the defendants brought onto the land ; ( ii ) the way in which they stored them ; and ( iii ) the character of the neighbourhood . |
10 | Courts should not exclude evidence just because it is not accepted wisdom ; nor should they allow plaintiffs to be held liable on the basis of mere hypothesis or speculation . |