Example sentences of "held responsible for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they were chosen by the landowners of the county , the latter were held responsible for their conduct in office . |
| 2 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 3 | One — in the important legal sense — raised the question of whether the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for their crimes . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Under retributive justice punishment is justified because it is ‘ deserved ’ by free , choice-making individuals who are held responsible for their actions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Miserably , she backed out of the room , not wanting to desert Mrs Browning and be held responsible for her collapse , if collapse there was to be . |
| 8 | It had been very different for her but he could n't be held responsible for her folly . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm giving you one final warning , Adam — if you touch me I wo n't be held responsible for my actions ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You ca n't be held responsible for your distaste for politics , I suppose . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | It follows that the bank can not be held responsible for his misrepresentation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Non-use has essentially been considered as a negative response to the catalogue and the library user has been held responsible for his own shortcomings . |
| 16 | Bentley was mentally deficient and many believed he should not have been held responsible for his actions . |