Example sentences of "hold responsible for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 2 | When he returned at the beginning of December 1340 Edward had immediately dismissed the home council , Robert Stratford , who was bishop of Chichester and chancellor , among them ; Archbishop Stratford , then held responsible for the home government 's failure , was ordered to Louvain as a hostage for the payment of the allies , while the dismissal and prosecution of other ministers and officials — mostly clerics — was set in motion . |
| 3 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 4 | First , Fisher invited Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus whom some held responsible for the murder of British soldiers in the quasi-civil war in Cyprus . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | In practice a contestant is held responsible for the behaviour of team-members and the coach , and he may face a severe penalty if they misbehave . |
| 7 | Zhu was reportedly dismissed because of his links with liberal policies , and might have been held responsible for the participation of union members in the pro-democracy protests of May and June . |
| 8 | Individuals , by the force of their personalities , are held responsible for the breaking of truces : ‘ It was thanks to [ the Pope ] at any rate , that [ the truce ] was broken . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Accordingly , generalization decrement can not be held responsible for the context-specificity of the CR seen in the latter case . |
| 12 | SPARE RIB can not be held responsible for the loss or damage of any correspondence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Under the OT policy , if the value of property at risk exceeds the sum insured , then the Claimant will be held responsible for the difference and the amount payable will be reduced accordingly . |
| 15 | A closed hearing held in February this year concluded that no-one could be held responsible for the death . |
| 16 | Francis said : ‘ I could n't be held responsible for the weather . |
| 17 | The child making the complaint can often be classified as a fuss pot engaged in attention seeking behaviour — a case of the victim being held responsible for the crime ? |
| 18 | However , Weatherbury people began to protest publicly that he should not be held responsible for the crime . |
| 19 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
| 20 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 21 | ‘ IMC can not be held responsible for the fact that your Earth Central contracts failed to guarantee your return journeys . ’ |