Example sentences of "be [verb] accountable [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is the view that the party leadership in parliament should lack autonomy and should be held accountable to the party rank and file outside of parliament . |
| 4 | Both the leaseholder and the federal land manager , it was agreed , should be held accountable for the condition of the rangeland . |
| 5 | individual managers can be held accountable for the profitability of individual products ; |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . " |
| 9 | This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings . |
| 10 | Unwillingness to stand out has its roots in village life , where a community could be held accountable for the actions of one of its members . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it was the King 's ministers , the argument ran , who should be held accountable for the misdeeds of the Crown , not the King himself . |
| 12 | " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 13 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 14 | This states that , where a player commits an act of foul play which has not been detected by the match officials , that player 's union has the discretion to cite that player to show cause why he should not be held accountable in the same way as a player who has been ordered off the field of play . |
| 15 | 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 . |