Example sentences of "[noun] be hold [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The defendant was held liable for the loss , as the thief 's act did not break the chain of causation . |
2 | The measure had been strongly opposed by powerful interest groups ( including the chaebol , the large conglomerates which dominate the country 's economy ) and its imminent imposition was held responsible for the recent removal abroad of funds from the Korean stock exchange . |
3 | Reference is constantly made to the president 's budget and the chief executive is held responsible for the consequences of budgetary policy , especially by members of the opposition party in Congress . |
4 | In practice a contestant is held responsible for the behaviour of team-members and the coach , and he may face a severe penalty if they misbehave . |
5 | But this same culture and family system is held responsible for a widespread pathology supposedly afflicting ‘ Asian ’ girls and thus also their education : the malaise of being ‘ caught between two cultures ’ , an ‘ identity crisis ’ , a form of individual splitting between two essentialized cultural forms , ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ British/Western ’ . |
6 | The pump manufacturer was held liable for the value of the lobsters ( property damage ) but not for the costs of buying and attempting to repair the pumps . |
7 | An omnibus company was held liable for the act of one of its drivers , who overturned a rival omnibus while racing with it and obstructing it , although directions had been issued to the driver forbidding such conduct . |
8 | The LTTE was held responsible for a car bomb in the capital , Colombo , which killed 11 people , a bus bomb in Ampara which killed 25 , and ambushes near Trincomalee and Batticaloa where 20 people were killed . |
9 | The child making the complaint can often be classified as a fuss pot engaged in attention seeking behaviour — a case of the victim being held responsible for the crime ? |
10 | In some cases of ‘ disappearance ’ the whole family is held responsible for the ‘ crime ’ of one of its members . |
11 | If a section was held responsible for an offence ( as it was if someone outside the section was offended ) the victims would hold the section responsible ; but even though the section shaikh made the peace , he had no power to collect from the lineages in his section : he had to get the agreement of the lineage shaikhs , and they then collected from their members . |