Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] can [be] held [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Zande they live in the southern Sudan and have been studied by Evans-Pritchard , so that at least the personal equation can be held constant in comparisons between these two cultures . |
| 2 | individual managers can be held accountable for the profitability of individual products ; |
| 3 | It is reasonable to suppose that the ‘ leading ’ industries will be willing to concede money wage increases to their workers equal to the rate of productivity growth : this will not in itself be inflationary as the average price level in these industries can be held constant . |
| 4 | THOSE three major eclipses can be held responsible for the tremendous highs and lows in your love life this year . |
| 5 | The mechanisms by which political elites can be held responsive to majority views in systems of representative government were further explored in Joseph Schumpeter 's Capitalism , Socialism and Democracy ( 1944 ) , which defined democracy as ‘ an institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote ’ . |
| 6 | Any statement can be held true come what may , if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system . |
| 7 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |