Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] held [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Production was a good in itself and therefore not to be held accountable for industry 's wastes or the ill-health of workers and their families . |
| 2 | senior police officers not to be held liable to individual officers for injuries received at hands of riotous crowd . |
| 3 | If anyone is ever to be held responsible for the steerable revolution , it has to be one of these two eccentric personalities . |
| 4 | Lord Denning is 91 and not really to be held responsible for views arising from senility . |
| 5 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |