Example sentences of "be hold [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | So if a group is to be given authority , its members must be held accountable as a group , and unless this is done , it is very hard to take so-called group decisions seriously . |
| 33 | First , and most critical , every manager must be held accountable not only for the work of subordinates but also for adding value to their work . |
| 34 | Second , every manager must be held accountable for sustaining a team of subordinates capable of doing this work . |
| 35 | Third , every manager must be held accountable for setting direction and getting subordinates to follow willingly , indeed enthusiastically . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The formal Austrian position remained that the country had been a victim of Nazi aggression and could therefore not be held accountable for such crimes . |
| 38 | Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . " |
| 39 | This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings . |
| 40 | Others believed , however , that Fujimori was considering a judicial innovation under which leaders could be held accountable for actions by their organizations , even those committed after their own arrest . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | " 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 ) . |
| 44 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 45 | The fatwa was and remains an affront to civilised values , for which Iran should be held accountable for as long as the command stands unrescinded . |
| 46 | The accounts , records , etc. of the partnership must be kept at the principal place of business , and be held available for inspection by any of the partners . |
| 47 | To be held close against your heart . |
| 48 | It felt so good to be held close , to feel the warm security of his arms around her . |
| 49 | ( 6 ) Any licence transferred under this section shall be held subject to the conditions on which it was originally granted . |
| 50 | Francome is important because the court recognised the possibility that information taken without anyone 's consent , for example by espionage , might be held subject to an obligation of confidence . |
| 51 | The wider the purported exclusion , the more likely it is to be held unreasonable . |
| 52 | There is an immediate paradox here though : attempted murder may not involve the infliction of any harm at all , since a person who shoots at another and misses may still be held guilty of attempted murder . |
| 53 | This was open to the criticism that it imposed constructive liability : a person who risked a minor assault might be held guilty of a more serious offence if ‘ actual bodily harm ’ happened to result . |
| 54 | A slightly better idea may be to prepare a separate set of terms for use in consumer transactions , since the supplier 's freedom to restrict liability is more restricted in such cases , and exclusions are less likely to be held reasonable . |
| 55 | In addition , a clause may be held reasonable in relation to one claim and unreasonable in relation to another . |
| 56 | Under Sched 2 , para ( c ) , a clause is more likely to be held reasonable if the party knew or should have known of it when he entered into the contract . |
| 57 | Any statement can be held true come what may , if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system . |
| 58 | Even a statement very close to the periphery can be held true in the face of recalcitrant experience by pleading hallucination or by amending certain statements of the kind called logical laws . |
| 59 | If the works specified are insufficient to abate the odour then in any further proceedings to obtain a nuisance order under s.94 , the notice itself may be held bad , as in Whatling v Rees where the work specified in the notice , the draining of a cellar , would not have been sufficient to abate the nuisance . |
| 60 | Supposing the lessor does not want compensation , is the notice to be held bad because he does not ask for it ? |