Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't see why I should be held hostage over your quarrel with my brother ! ’ |
| 3 | When I moved to Gloucestershire in 1961 I was told by a neighbour to lie low and remember that , although the progeny of an adjacent county ( Worcestershire ) , I would be held a foreigner by Gloucestershire folk for at least 25 years . |
| 4 | General Accident will insure you for all sums which you may be held legally liable to pay for death or injury to other persons or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any motor cycle which your certificate of motor insurance permits you to drive or use . |
| 5 | General Accident will insure you for all sums which you may be held legally liable to pay in connection with your caravan and the plot on which your caravan is situated together with any fences , hedges , posts or chains around the plot resulting in |
| 6 | Until more is known concerning his death , I judge that you must be held in confinement within my custody . |
| 7 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 8 | What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion . |
| 9 | Did they not tell you that you might be held ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If you do , you remain responsible for your child even while you 're out and if anything goes wrong , you 'd be held responsible for your babysitter 's welfare , too . |
| 12 | Keep your chequebook and your cheque card separate : If you make it easy for a thief to plunder your account by keeping your chequebook and card together , you could be held responsible for the whole amount . |
| 13 | You will be held responsible for ensuring that all work adheres to regulations . |
| 14 | Unless we hear from you to the contrary within the next days , you will be held as admitting liability ’ . |
| 15 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 16 | In the larger clinics the two may run concurrently , in the smaller they may be held at different times during the week . |
| 17 | They may be held down with scotch tape . |
| 18 | Similarly , the stamp may obscure other provisions ; if this is the case , they may be held not to be incorporated ( Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 ; Sugar v London Midland and Scottish Railway [ 1941 ] 1 All ER 172 ) . |
| 19 | A suitable place for ward tutorials is often hard to find as they must be held near the ward . |
| 20 | They must be held for five to ten years , ’ she says . |
| 21 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 22 | For example , persons should be held in such a way as to avoid any interference with breathing or blood circulation , or contact with sexual areas ; if possible they should be held down on soft surfaces such as a bed , chair etc . |
| 23 | If it proves necessary to restrain a client 's arms or legs , they should be held above and below the main joint . |
| 24 | These are prisoners locked out of the prisons where they should be held . |
| 25 | That they should be held outside the US was for reasons which follow . |
| 26 | The element of the image which suggests that as a matter of principled obligation all members of a group rushed to the aid of , say , an aggressive and irresponsible cattle-thief or rapist , may therefore be the product of the practical consideration that men related to an offender prudently assumed they would be held collectively responsible for his actions . |
| 27 | That night they would be held in the Pot'ma Transit prison . |
| 28 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |
| 29 | If uncollected , they will be held on the door at the venue . |
| 30 | Under the changes , otherwise unapproved pesticides can be transferred t o suitable commercial pesticide stores where they will be held prior to their safe disposal . |