Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only area in which this strategy is likely to come unstuck is health , where even radical supporters of Thatcherite policies have recognised that the sick can not be held responsible for their illness . |
| 2 | The judge dismissed the wife 's appeal , holding that since there was no evidence that in deceiving his wife the husband was acting on behalf of the bank , they could not be held responsible for his misrepresentation and , therefore , the charge was enforceable against her . |
| 3 | It follows that the bank can not be held responsible for his misrepresentation . |
| 4 | " In future , anyone who produces and markets vehicles should also be made responsible for their disposal . " |
| 5 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 6 | ‘ Please be stamping this for me , Highness . ’ |
| 7 | But he said : ‘ Managers ca n't be held responsible for what players do on the pitch . |
| 8 | It had been very different for her but he could n't be held responsible for her folly . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't be held responsible for your distaste for politics , I suppose . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm giving you one final warning , Adam — if you touch me I wo n't be held responsible for my actions ! ’ |
| 11 | Gallagher was found guilty of careless driving , but his insurers , the Norwich Union , insist he ca n't be held liable for what happened . |
| 12 | A manager may feel that his subordinate will carry out the work badly , and that he himself will ultimately be held responsible for his subordinate 's errors . |
| 13 | Presumably the justification is that D has already crossed a high moral/social threshold in choosing to commit such a serious offence , and should therefore be held liable for whatever consequences ensue , however unforeseeable they may be . |
| 14 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |