Example sentences of "not accountable [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Blunkett said : ‘ I do n't blame them for that , but if they are not accountable to us and they are not accountable to the Secretary of State , who the hell do they think they are accountable to ? ’ |
| 2 | These officers , who wear the uniform of the service to which they are assigned and are not accountable to the Ministry of Defence , are often unknown to their nominal military superiors . |
| 3 | Each has a chief executive who , though he sits on the board of nearly 600 directors , is not accountable to the head of the group . |
| 4 | There are good reasons for this : first , Corinth was an oligarchy , and in oligarchies , unlike democracies such as Athens after 462 , magistrates are not accountable to the same extent and there is less need to put up inscriptions . |
| 5 | And as far as non-elected bodies goes about two fifths of all public money is now spent by quangos who are not accountable to the people of this country in any way shape or form so I recommend all of these decisions , including paragraph B. |
| 6 | We have seen that on 13 June the Court of Appeal had decided in Heaton 's case that the Transport and General Workers ' Union was not accountable for the action of its shop stewards . |
| 7 | A Government which is not accountable through the ballot box is not a democratic Government . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , one has one reservation about making housing associations the main vehicle for the provision of social housing : a housing association is not accountable in the same way as a local authority to the people for whom it is making the provision — that is , of course , in those areas where local authorities have a housing function . |