Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] hold [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Savings Certificates are paying a miserable 7.5 per cent tax free and no one should be holding any certificates which have reached maturity as the rate paid under general extension terms is only 5.1 per cent . |
| 2 | He saw trees ‘ as objects of local elegance and grandeur ’ and these should be held sacred . |
| 3 | Of course , Mr. Glick was fully entitled to point out to your Lordships that the vast majority of cases concerned with the recovery of tax which is not due will indeed be covered by statutory provisions regulating the right of recovery ; he also suggested that , if it should be held that section 33 has no application in the present case , steps can easily , and may well , be taken at an early opportunity to bring cases such as the present , which are in any event likely to be very rare , within its ambit . |
| 4 | They do have control over their behaviour and should be held accountable for it . |
| 5 | Both the leaseholder and the federal land manager , it was agreed , should be held accountable for the condition of the rangeland . |
| 6 | It follows then that if the outcomes are poor , or lower than expected , the teacher is at fault , and should be held accountable . |
| 7 | It means that patients , in their ignorance , blame already overstressed medical staff for delays or treatment withheld while those who should be held accountable are cushioned from the consequence of their actions . |
| 8 | There is the view that the party leadership in parliament should lack autonomy and should be held accountable to the party rank and file outside of parliament . |
| 9 | This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it was the King 's ministers , the argument ran , who should be held accountable for the misdeeds of the Crown , not the King himself . |
| 11 | The fatwa was and remains an affront to civilised values , for which Iran should be held accountable for as long as the command stands unrescinded . |
| 12 | You should walk with a brisk step which indicates that you are interested in your job , never slouch along , droop your shoulders or flop awkwardly in a chair ; your head should be held high , your shoulders back ; you should walk gracefully with good body line , and sit and bend down elegantly . |
| 13 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |
| 14 | To support manslaughter liability in these cases one would have to espouse the draconian principle that a person should be held liable for all the consequences of any wrongful act . |
| 15 | Kingsley denied that God should be held responsible for evils attributable to ‘ man 's selfishness , laziness and ignorance . ’ |
| 16 | In this way , the legal view of insanity really becomes a view regarding whether someone should be held responsible . |
| 17 | On May 21 Berlin deputies rejected a CDU motion , effectively of no confidence , to the effect that the coalition should be held responsible for the May Day rioting . |
| 18 | The gate should be held level with offcuts of 50mm timber before drilling the hole for the bolt . |
| 19 | So if a group is to be given authority , its members must be held accountable as a group , and unless this is done , it is very hard to take so-called group decisions seriously . |
| 20 | First , and most critical , every manager must be held accountable not only for the work of subordinates but also for adding value to their work . |
| 21 | Second , every manager must be held accountable for sustaining a team of subordinates capable of doing this work . |
| 22 | Third , every manager must be held accountable for setting direction and getting subordinates to follow willingly , indeed enthusiastically . |
| 23 | " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 24 | In fact the function of such eye- and ear-witness accounts as the ‘ Kentucky fried chips ’ incident is to authorize and authenticate the racialization of experience by making it seem like an entirely spontaneous and natural process , and one for which blacks themselves must be held responsible . |
| 25 | All other variables which affect both X and Y must be held constant . |
| 26 | Particularly controversial has been the argument of human capital theorists that a number of economic variables must be held constant in calculating the economic effects of education and health services . |
| 27 | In effect , Roll argued that the tests reduced the CAPM to a model of partial equilibrium in which all other factors , such as the returns on other investment assets , must be held constant before its prescriptions can be applied . |
| 28 | Francome is important because the court recognised the possibility that information taken without anyone 's consent , for example by espionage , might be held subject to an obligation of confidence . |
| 29 | This was open to the criticism that it imposed constructive liability : a person who risked a minor assault might be held guilty of a more serious offence if ‘ actual bodily harm ’ happened to result . |
| 30 | In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all . |