Example sentences of "[verb] accountable " in BNC.

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1 But bosses at the North Staffordshire Hospital Centre reinstated her , saying : ‘ No one person can be considered accountable . ’
2 Another problem , and one that was intimated in the previous paragraph , is the question of who is to be considered accountable to whom .
3 Whilst the partnership agreement may well expressly or by implication prohibit a partner from becoming involved in other ( non-competing ) business in an attempt to secure his full time devotion to the firm , breach of such provision will not result in the offending partner becoming accountable in respect of profits earned from that other business .
4 This was because players invariably came from the local community and , by meeting fans in pubs , clubs and at civic functions , somehow seemed accountable to them .
5 ‘ While I have always felt accountable , I have always run my own division more or less autonomously and that has n't changed , ’ says Claudia McCabe .
6 Consequently , the composition of authorities reinforced conflicts of loyalties : many members did not feel accountable to the RHA who appointed them but to local constituencies .
7 It could not survive for long , and the Council would soon have to be made accountable to the European Parliament in some form or another .
8 The Empire resembled the North German Federation , except that the Imperial Chancellor was made accountable to the Reichstag : the rest of the Council of Ministers ( Bundestag ) , which was the Cabinet , was not .
9 Large factories were made accountable for their own production , profits and losses .
10 We are told , for example , that if teachers are made accountable standards will be raised .
11 So it is not only the visible and active exercise of power that needs to be equalized , but also the possession of power , which , where it can not be redistributed , must at least be made accountable within the framework of democracy .
12 Workers and trade unions could be encouraged to insist that the management of their massive savings should be made accountable to them , and should be directed towards employment-creating , socially useful investment .
13 At the same time governing bodies were made accountable to parents for the first time .
14 Royalties on such sale shall not become accountable as a sale until one month after the Publisher has actually received payment .
15 8.3 Should the Publisher notify the Company in writing of a high risk sale of the Work then royalties on such sale shall not become accountable as a sale until one month after the Publisher has actually received payment .
16 In the past the electorate had had their say by holding accountable , either centrally elected or locally elected officials .
17 Well I do n't think it 's a very easy question to answer erm the Association , and I as the Director , feel accountable through a variety of channels .
18 Even though it is the body that offends , it is none the less the mind that is found accountable .
19 The directors are , firstly , made accountable to the shareholders by structuring the internal division of power within the company so that the shareholders have the power to appoint and dismiss directors and to supervise them whilst in office .
20 To what extent is government made accountable by ( i ) Parliament , ( ii ) the electorate , and ( iii ) the courts ?
21 Thus , each District became accountable to the Board of Education for the observance of the Regulations , for the efficient conduct of instruction together with the organisation of the provision which included approval of tutors and syllabuses .
22 However , it was contended for the bank that Fashions and Wholesale remained indebted to BCCI for £600,000 and BCCI then became accountable to Mr Sawar for £300,000 ; this amount would then be limited to the dividend payable in the liquidation .
23 In these circumstances , in the interests of patient safety , nurses become accountable for giving the correct drug , at the correct time , in the correct dose , by the correct route to the correct patient .
24 And it is not groups but individuals whom the company will hold accountable .
25 Interesting and illuminating as these specific sociolinguistic patterns are , the material discussed in this section illustrates a more general point of considerable importance which should not be submerged in the large amount of detailed linguistic material presented : radical adaptations to the standard method of the kind outlined here are capable of revealing different types of pattern in the data and so increasing both our understanding of change and variation and our potential for constructing accountable theories .
26 But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability .
27 However the practice remains accountable to the FPC for its drugs expenditure .
28 And ‘ that it was strongly recommended that Operation Majestic 12 be kept accountable only to the president of the United States ’ .
29 It remained an integral part of a government department but with an attempt to try to introduce accountable management and run it in a businesslike fashion .
30 All supervising officers , including senior divisional managers — chief superintendents — ‘ should not only hold themselves accountable , but be actively held accountable for the overall level of their subordinates ’ .
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