Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] accountable [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | To be employed is to have an ongoing contract that holds you accountable for doing work of a given type for a specified number of hours per week in exchange for payment . |
2 | Though the ascendancy he achieved over Nehru sometimes led Mountbatten to overestimate the extent to which great events lay in the hollow of his hand , he kept himself accountable to the British government throughout . |
3 | Naturally no reasonable person would wish to hold him accountable for what he wrote , but certain passages nevertheless made very disturbing reading . ’ |
4 | When asked to hold themselves accountable to their residents , local authorities chose instead to clobber them with a 30 per cent . |
5 | He regularly took his entire cabinet to meet the people in popular forums , making himself accountable in a way his main western critics never would . |
6 | Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day . |