Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] hold [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite distinct from the implications for increased efficiency , where managers are seen as holding positions of power for the purpose of furthering the public interest it is appropriate that there should be public participation in the formulation of appropriate performance standards and that those who have culpably fallen below them should be held to account in a public forum . |
| 2 | Four theories of jurisdiction will be analysed which adopt differing views as to which matters should be held to go to jurisdiction . |
| 3 | The most widely accepted theoretical explanation of which issues should be held to go to jurisdiction has been the collateral or preliminary or jurisdictional fact doctrine . |
| 4 | The essential question is whether the court 's discretion to require an undertaking in damages in law enforcement actions is confined to cases in which the Crown is plaintiff , or should be held to apply to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in the circumstances specified in the Hoffmann-La Roche case . |
| 5 | Whether the same principle should be held to apply in the case of public authorities other than the Crown charged with the enforcement of the law falls to be decided in the present case . |
| 6 | Moreover , there are serious theoretical problems in attempting to isolate those intellectual factors that might be held to account for social change , apart from then attempting to associate these factors with particular social groups on the one hand or with literacy on the other . |
| 7 | For Ho Chi Minh , formerly ‘ Nguyen the Patriot ’ , it was an accolade that corresponded to reality but of all the ‘ objective circumstances ’ which might be held to account for even a temporary communist victory in August 1945 at least the most striking and immediate was the political vacuum into which they moved . |
| 8 | Indeed , a good deal of children 's play , if otherwise defined , could be held to fall into this category ; and occasionally police or social workers are hard put to it to determine where the line should be drawn . |
| 9 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 10 | TV became both an arena in which political discussion is carried on , like the House of Commons or a party meeting , and simultaneously a medium in which politicians could be held to account before the people . |
| 11 | There were no trials where there was a steady boyfriend/girlfriend relationship , but an example of a more casual relationship indicates the extremely of the way that a girl could be held to blame for her own murder . |
| 12 | Again continental drift may be held to account for the remarkable similarity of the Upper Carboniferous ( Pennsylvanian ) Coal Measures on both sides of what one of the airlines now likes to call the " Atlantic River " . |
| 13 | These codes apply to conduct which may involve risk issues as well as other situations , and members may be held to account for behaviour which falls short of the required standard . |
| 14 | Similarly , if terms are common in a particular trade , those terms may be held to apply to a contract between parties both familiar with that trade and its custom ( British Crane Hire Corpn Ltd v Ipswich Plant Hire Ltd [ 1975 ] QB 303 ) . |
| 15 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 16 | Major , speaking in the UK House of Commons on Jan. 21 , underlined Bush 's attitude , promising that Iraqi forces would be held to account for their " illegal and inhuman actions " . |
| 17 | Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head . |
| 18 | In resolving the question of what matters will be held to go to jurisdiction it is necessary to steer a course between Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 19 | In the evening a fun event will be held to get into the swing of things . |
| 20 | In my judgment , however , the law is not certain and it is necessary for this court to consider whether , having regard to the right to free expression , the law of libel can be held to extend to a local government authority . |
| 21 | If the Scoutmaster says a novelty plastic umbrella stand is pure elephant 's foot or if the vicar 's wife passes off a gold-plated tie-pin as the real thing , they can be held to account under law . |