Example sentences of "held [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It represented an attempt of a small group of working professional women to make a nationwide survey of the conditions of town life in England which might be held responsible for particular characteristics of wartime evacuees . |
| 2 | In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications . |
| 3 | Mutalibov , President of Azerbaijan from May 1990 , resigned in March 1992 but was returned to office briefly in May after his successor Yagub Mamedov was held responsible for Azeri defeats in the disputed Armenian enclave of Nagorny-Karahakh . |
| 4 | When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure , the ‘ shame ’ attached to being held responsible for social dissensus , lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest . |
| 5 | We can not be held responsible for returned goods lost in transit . |
| 6 | Participants in a television programme , for example , who are told that it is a " pilot " which will not be transmitted , can not be held responsible for defamatory statements they have made if it is subsequently screened at prime time . |
| 7 | A two-thirds majority , as provided for in the constitution , would only be held necessary for constitutional changes and legislation affecting human and civil rights . |
| 8 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for latent defects in the equipment which could not be discovered with reasonable care . |