Example sentences of "hold [noun] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the convention of ministerial responsibility holds ministers accountable for all departmental work ( see Chapter 14 ) , the FMI assigns to departmental cost-centre managers responsibility for securing value for money . |
| 2 | Liverpool have acknowledged receipt of their letter in which they hold Saunders responsible for dangerous play . |
| 3 | Another way of putting this is to say that we are concerned with techniques for holding government accountable for what it does . |
| 4 | On July 12 the Chamber of Accounts of the Alpes-Maritimes département had issued an interim verdict holding Médecin responsible for irregular payments of over F13,000,000 ( approximately US$2,400,000 ) in public funds to a Paris finance house during an exercise in 1986 to restructure Nice city council 's debts ; he had been given until Sept. 17 to explain himself , ahead of a final ruling due in November . |
| 5 | These set out prices , treatment levels and quality standards and enable purchasers to hold providers accountable for their performance . |
| 6 | Take it for a pledge of my faith that God will hold Harry safe for us , howsoever we miss him now . ’ |
| 7 | The bodies that govern companies , unions , clubs and nations all employ people to do work , and they all organize these employees in managerial hierarchies , systems that allow organizations to hold people accountable for getting assigned work done . |
| 8 | It follows that it is wrong to hold people responsible for their crimes and punish them in ways that imply that their crimes are their own fault . |
| 9 | That 's why I could never hold Ann-Marie responsible for what 's happened . |
| 10 | The courts will hold employees liable for their contributory negligence however . |
| 11 | Kodjo , a presidential confidant , had publicly threatened to arrest Koffigoh for having held Eyadema responsible for the recent storming of the National Assembly building [ see pp. 39130-31 ] . |
| 12 | Demonstrators held Daio responsible for the country 's economic difficulties which they said were a direct result of the structural adjustment programme Daio had agreed with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 13 | Henry held Richard responsible for this further outbreak , which was in flagrant defiance of his recent ban . |
| 14 | Since Richard held Seillan responsible for much of the trouble he refused to release him , either for a ransom or in exchange for prisoners taken by Count Raymond , even though these now included two of King Henry 's household knights , who had apparently wandered into the territory of Toulouse on their way back from the shrine of Compostella . |
| 15 | The first tranche of these sanctions , affecting imports worth US$300,000,000 , was due to take effect on Dec. 5 and was expected to affect French wine and food products , since the USA held France responsible for the deadlock . |
| 16 | Deputies held Serbia responsible for the civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina and proposed to send international observers to the provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina " where there is no war yet but minorities are in danger " . |