Example sentences of "[be] [verb] accountable for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They do have control over their behaviour and should be held accountable for it . |
| 3 | Both the leaseholder and the federal land manager , it was agreed , should be held accountable for the condition of the rangeland . |
| 4 | individual managers can be held accountable for the profitability of individual products ; |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Individuals may be held accountable for any loss to public funds or unauthorised disclosure of information occurring because of failure to take these precautions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Second , every manager must be held accountable for sustaining a team of subordinates capable of doing this work . |
| 9 | Third , every manager must be held accountable for setting direction and getting subordinates to follow willingly , indeed enthusiastically . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . " |
| 13 | This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | " 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 ) . |
| 18 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |