Example sentences of "could be held [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others believed , however , that Fujimori was considering a judicial innovation under which leaders could be held accountable for actions by their organizations , even those committed after their own arrest . |
| 2 | Unwillingness to stand out has its roots in village life , where a community could be held accountable for the actions of one of its members . |
| 3 | An incorrect method of doing so could be held procedural only , or alternatively it could be held to negate consent . |
| 4 | Indeed , if transit passage could be held applicable to third parties as a general rule of international law of navigation rights through strategic communication routes , the United States has little to lose by refusal to become a party to the Convention . |
| 5 | Er good , from memory of the previous meeting , there , one of the items I recall at er I was left to do was contact the our Education Officer erm namely Keith er to see if er a one day seminar or a one day school or whatever you 'd like to call it , er could be held prior to the , the ballot . |
| 6 | In a study investigating the effect of a particular teaching method on speed of learning , many factors could be held constant if a laboratory experiment were conducted — the identity of the teacher , the way the material was introduced and so on ; a trial in real schools would be more realistic , but also more susceptible to the slings and arrows of fortune in the classroom . |
| 7 | If the doctor 's duty is a matter of law , a court could restrain a doctor from continuing such treatment , and he could be held liable to pay damages for any distress or increased discomfort the patient suffered as a consequence , in that his conduct would amount to negligence . |
| 8 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 9 | If they make a loss , management committees could be held liable personally under insolvency regulations for any such losses . |
| 10 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 11 | Thamesdown Council fears it could be held liable if the alarm batteries failed and somebody died . |
| 12 | A closed hearing held in February this year concluded that no-one could be held responsible for the death . |
| 13 | One — in the important legal sense — raised the question of whether the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for their crimes . |
| 14 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 15 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Its essence was the system of alternate or multiple parties whereby governments could be held responsible to different sections of the class or classes that had a political voice . |
| 18 | A tenant could be held responsible for an absentee landlord , in the same way that a married couple and partners living together as husband and wife will be responsible for each other . |