Example sentences of "[verb] accountable for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large factories were made accountable for their own production , profits and losses . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Production was a good in itself and therefore not to be held accountable for industry 's wastes or the ill-health of workers and their families . |
| 5 | They do have control over their behaviour and should be held accountable for it . |
| 6 | Both the leaseholder and the federal land manager , it was agreed , should be held accountable for the condition of the rangeland . |
| 7 | How will they know what they are being held accountable for ? |
| 8 | ( Chapter 1 has already mentioned the classic case of California State being held accountable for not ensuring a minimum achievement for an individual student . ) |
| 9 | A manager who is not held accountable for any of his authority or power may well exercise his authority in a capricious way . |
| 10 | A manager who is held accountable for aspects of performance which he has no power or authority to control is in an impossible position . |
| 11 | individual managers can be held accountable for the profitability of individual products ; |
| 12 | One dramatic concomitant is rising fertility among unmarried teenage girls , though changes in women 's education standards and work status can hardly be held accountable for such a sharp upswing in teenage fertility as the past decade has witnessed . |
| 13 | Individuals may be held accountable for any loss to public funds or unauthorised disclosure of information occurring because of failure to take these precautions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If the CEO or the manager of the group is held accountable for outcomes , then in the final analysis , he or she will have to agree with group decisions or have the authority to block them , which means that the group never really had decision-making power to begin with . |
| 16 | Second , every manager must be held accountable for sustaining a team of subordinates capable of doing this work . |
| 17 | Third , every manager must be held accountable for setting direction and getting subordinates to follow willingly , indeed enthusiastically . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The formal Austrian position remained that the country had been a victim of Nazi aggression and could therefore not be held accountable for such crimes . |
| 20 | Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . " |
| 21 | This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings . |
| 22 | Others believed , however , that Fujimori was considering a judicial innovation under which leaders could be held accountable for actions by their organizations , even those committed after their own arrest . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The major resource users , doctors , were not held accountable for spending taxpayers ' money . |
| 25 | However often he and his ministers warned the population not to expect an overnight return to prewar prosperity , the head of the government was naturally held accountable for the persistence of food and fuel shortages , black marketeering , and bread rationing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | " 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 ) . |
| 28 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 29 | The fatwa was and remains an affront to civilised values , for which Iran should be held accountable for as long as the command stands unrescinded . |