Example sentences of "[was/were] held [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , everything flowed to and from the House of Commons : the civil servants were held responsible to the Commons through their ministers ; the Cabinet was collectively responsible to the Commons ; the monarch only acted on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons ; and the Lords were always to defer to the legislative views of the Commons . |
| 2 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
| 3 | The plaintiff 's horse ate some leaves and died and the defendants were held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 4 | Everywhere else the ground was held solid under the rain by the vast grip of the vegetation which had so rapidly sprung up . |
| 5 | It was held prior to the Supreme Court — with its newly-established conservative majority — beginning a consideration of Roe v. Wade , the beleaguered 1973 legal precedent which had established legal abortion as a constitutional right . |
| 6 | In Bank of Montreal v. Stuart and Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones , 128 L.T. 218 the security given by the wife was held unenforceable in the absence of independent advice . |
| 7 | An omnibus company was held liable for the act of one of its drivers , who overturned a rival omnibus while racing with it and obstructing it , although directions had been issued to the driver forbidding such conduct . |
| 8 | The defendant was held liable for the loss , as the thief 's act did not break the chain of causation . |
| 9 | The pump manufacturer was held liable for the value of the lobsters ( property damage ) but not for the costs of buying and attempting to repair the pumps . |
| 10 | It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe . |
| 11 | The measure had been strongly opposed by powerful interest groups ( including the chaebol , the large conglomerates which dominate the country 's economy ) and its imminent imposition was held responsible for the recent removal abroad of funds from the Korean stock exchange . |
| 12 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 13 | ‘ Dierdriu and the courtiers slept all of the time the Princess was held captive inside the Dark Ireland . |