Example sentences of "be hold [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the leaseholder and the federal land manager , it was agreed , should be held accountable for the condition of the rangeland . |
| 2 | individual managers can be held accountable for the profitability of individual products ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . " |
| 6 | This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | " 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 ) . |
| 10 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 11 | A closed hearing held in February this year concluded that no-one could be held responsible for the death . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 13 | Accordingly , generalization decrement can not be held responsible for the context-specificity of the CR seen in the latter case . |
| 14 | SPARE RIB can not be held responsible for the loss or damage of any correspondence . |
| 15 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 16 | I appreciate that Guitarist can not be held responsible for the extremely low quality of these tapes , but I feel that you should be made aware of the fact . |
| 17 | If anyone is ever to be held responsible for the steerable revolution , it has to be one of these two eccentric personalities . |
| 18 | THOSE three major eclipses can be held responsible for the tremendous highs and lows in your love life this year . |
| 19 | At present , parents can be held responsible for the misdemeanors of their children , yet they are not allowed to chastise their children for fear of reprisals from the courts . |
| 20 | Francis said : ‘ I could n't be held responsible for the weather . |
| 21 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 22 | Keep your chequebook and your cheque card separate : If you make it easy for a thief to plunder your account by keeping your chequebook and card together , you could be held responsible for the whole amount . |
| 23 | The state of destination is given a discretion ( though the convention does not specify by which organ of the state the discretion is to be exercised ) to execute a letter rogatory which does not indicate the person to be held responsible for the costs and expenses ; the point here is that there is a discretion to refuse to execute letters in such circumstances . |
| 24 | If , however , the authority to make appointments to the board of a nationalised industry did not reside solely in Government , but in part in trade unions as the instruments of industrial democracy , the Secretary of State could no longer be held responsible for the fitness of the board to discharge its functions ; and it would no longer be meaningful for Members to ask Questions , nor possible for Government to answer them constructively . |
| 25 | What is curious is that the members of this same dominant group which may be held responsible for the emergence of modernist architecture , and its appropriation by the state as an authority , do not , by and large , choose family homes of their own built in this style , which is clearly incompatible with their personal desires and images . |
| 26 | However , Weatherbury people began to protest publicly that he should not be held responsible for the crime . |
| 27 | blurring responsibility : when a committee makes a decision , no individual will be held responsible for the consequences of the decision . |
| 28 | ‘ IMC can not be held responsible for the fact that your Earth Central contracts failed to guarantee your return journeys . ’ |
| 29 | However , this person can not be held responsible for the charges due from the other residents . |
| 30 | Sir John can not be held responsible for the loyalty of every one of his servants , and Cosmas 's death , God rest him , is a mystery . ’ |