Example sentences of "[be] hold responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A closed hearing held in February this year concluded that no-one could be held responsible for the death . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 3 | Peking had warned that ‘ Hong Kong would be held responsible for all consequences of the ( Yang Yang ) affair ’ by allowing the swimmer , a supporter of the student-led democracy movement , to seek asylum in America . |
| 4 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 5 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 6 | We can not be held responsible for returned goods lost in transit . |
| 7 | Kingsley denied that God should be held responsible for evils attributable to ‘ man 's selfishness , laziness and ignorance . ’ |
| 8 | Miserably , she backed out of the room , not wanting to desert Mrs Browning and be held responsible for her collapse , if collapse there was to be . |
| 9 | You will be held responsible for ensuring that all work adheres to regulations . |
| 10 | Accordingly , generalization decrement can not be held responsible for the context-specificity of the CR seen in the latter case . |
| 11 | SPARE RIB can not be held responsible for the loss or damage of any correspondence . |
| 12 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 13 | Qualification will depend on the knowledge and expertise possessed and , as important , the extent to which the problem-solver can be held responsible for any decision according to the system of accountability we have ; that is , the politician is accountable to Parliament and the public , and the individual to any system which the Parliament may have enacted , whether guidelines or law , and to those immediately touched by any decision . |
| 14 | The MDC can not be held responsible for some problems . |
| 15 | They say that the explosion was due to hitherto unknown chemical or physical events for which it can not be held responsible for failing to predict . |
| 16 | One — in the important legal sense — raised the question of whether the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for their crimes . |
| 17 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 18 | THE ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND THE DESIGNERS BELIEVE THAT ALL STATEMENTS HEREIN ARE CORRECT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS AND CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS . |
| 19 | I appreciate that Guitarist can not be held responsible for the extremely low quality of these tapes , but I feel that you should be made aware of the fact . |
| 20 | If anyone is ever to be held responsible for the steerable revolution , it has to be one of these two eccentric personalities . |
| 21 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |
| 22 | THOSE three major eclipses can be held responsible for the tremendous highs and lows in your love life this year . |
| 23 | At present , parents can be held responsible for the misdemeanors of their children , yet they are not allowed to chastise their children for fear of reprisals from the courts . |
| 24 | Francis said : ‘ I could n't be held responsible for the weather . |
| 25 | But he said : ‘ Managers ca n't be held responsible for what players do on the pitch . |
| 26 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 27 | Although the officers of these contrasting units might be held responsible for both the good and the bad behaviour , there is a touch of the ‘ kind ’ and the ‘ nasty ’ treatment often meted out to prisoners in the hope of gaining information . |
| 28 | Naturally , the carrier can not be held responsible for loss or damage which results from the trader 's carelessness or negligence . |
| 29 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 30 | Keep your chequebook and your cheque card separate : If you make it easy for a thief to plunder your account by keeping your chequebook and card together , you could be held responsible for the whole amount . |