Example sentences of "[vb pp] responsible for [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis of morality and law-abiding behaviour has become the family and it follows that parents must be made responsible for their children 's misdemeanours . |
| 2 | Parents have got to be made responsible for their children 's action , ’ she said . |
| 3 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 4 | Under retributive justice punishment is justified because it is ‘ deserved ’ by free , choice-making individuals who are held responsible for their actions . |
| 5 | One — in the important legal sense — raised the question of whether the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for their crimes . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm giving you one final warning , Adam — if you touch me I wo n't be held responsible for my actions ! ’ |
| 8 | Bentley was mentally deficient and many believed he should not have been held responsible for his actions . |