Example sentences of "[verb] accountable [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the composition of authorities reinforced conflicts of loyalties : many members did not feel accountable to the RHA who appointed them but to local constituencies . |
| 2 | It could not survive for long , and the Council would soon have to be made accountable to the European Parliament in some form or another . |
| 3 | The Empire resembled the North German Federation , except that the Imperial Chancellor was made accountable to the Reichstag : the rest of the Council of Ministers ( Bundestag ) , which was the Cabinet , was not . |
| 4 | So it is not only the visible and active exercise of power that needs to be equalized , but also the possession of power , which , where it can not be redistributed , must at least be made accountable within the framework of democracy . |
| 5 | The directors are , firstly , made accountable to the shareholders by structuring the internal division of power within the company so that the shareholders have the power to appoint and dismiss directors and to supervise them whilst in office . |
| 6 | Thus , each District became accountable to the Board of Education for the observance of the Regulations , for the efficient conduct of instruction together with the organisation of the provision which included approval of tutors and syllabuses . |
| 7 | However the practice remains accountable to the FPC for its drugs expenditure . |
| 8 | There is the view that the party leadership in parliament should lack autonomy and should be held accountable to the party rank and file outside of parliament . |
| 9 | All supervising officers , including senior divisional managers — chief superintendents — ‘ should not only hold themselves accountable , but be actively held accountable for the overall level of their subordinates ’ . |
| 10 | Both the leaseholder and the federal land manager , it was agreed , should be held accountable for the condition of the rangeland . |
| 11 | individual managers can be held accountable for the profitability of individual products ; |
| 12 | Your specific tasks within that given work are assigned to you by a person called your manager ( or boss or supervisor ) , who ought to be held accountable for the work you do . |
| 13 | Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland . |
| 14 | Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . " |
| 15 | This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings . |
| 16 | Unwillingness to stand out has its roots in village life , where a community could be held accountable for the actions of one of its members . |
| 17 | However often he and his ministers warned the population not to expect an overnight return to prewar prosperity , the head of the government was naturally held accountable for the persistence of food and fuel shortages , black marketeering , and bread rationing . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it was the King 's ministers , the argument ran , who should be held accountable for the misdeeds of the Crown , not the King himself . |
| 19 | " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 20 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 21 | This states that , where a player commits an act of foul play which has not been detected by the match officials , that player 's union has the discretion to cite that player to show cause why he should not be held accountable in the same way as a player who has been ordered off the field of play . |