Example sentences of "[be] hold account " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point was that they should be managers who took responsibility for securing the best service to the patient and could be held to account if there was failure . |
| 2 | If the Scoutmaster says a novelty plastic umbrella stand is pure elephant 's foot or if the vicar 's wife passes off a gold-plated tie-pin as the real thing , they can be held to account under law . |
| 3 | ‘ Any private seller who makes a factual statement about the goods he is selling , verbally or in writing , can be held to account if what he says is inaccurate . ’ |
| 4 | But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem . |
| 5 | TV became both an arena in which political discussion is carried on , like the House of Commons or a party meeting , and simultaneously a medium in which politicians could be held to account before the people . |
| 6 | Moreover , there are serious theoretical problems in attempting to isolate those intellectual factors that might be held to account for social change , apart from then attempting to associate these factors with particular social groups on the one hand or with literacy on the other . |
| 7 | For Ho Chi Minh , formerly ‘ Nguyen the Patriot ’ , it was an accolade that corresponded to reality but of all the ‘ objective circumstances ’ which might be held to account for even a temporary communist victory in August 1945 at least the most striking and immediate was the political vacuum into which they moved . |
| 8 | Quite distinct from the implications for increased efficiency , where managers are seen as holding positions of power for the purpose of furthering the public interest it is appropriate that there should be public participation in the formulation of appropriate performance standards and that those who have culpably fallen below them should be held to account in a public forum . |
| 9 | Thirdly , self and peer evaluation seem to indicate that professionals are unwilling to be held to account for their actions by outside individuals or groups . |
| 10 | Again continental drift may be held to account for the remarkable similarity of the Upper Carboniferous ( Pennsylvanian ) Coal Measures on both sides of what one of the airlines now likes to call the " Atlantic River " . |
| 11 | Major , speaking in the UK House of Commons on Jan. 21 , underlined Bush 's attitude , promising that Iraqi forces would be held to account for their " illegal and inhuman actions " . |
| 12 | These codes apply to conduct which may involve risk issues as well as other situations , and members may be held to account for behaviour which falls short of the required standard . |
| 13 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 14 | He has enjoyed every minute of it in the certain knowledge that he was never going to be held to account by being elected . |