Example sentences of "to [be] accountable to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governors not wishing to be accountable to local government have the choice of being accountable directly to central government by taking the school into grant-maintained status . |
| 2 | Family Practitioner Committees to be accountable to RHAS and to receive their funding from them . |
| 3 | If this is so , then the directors of a company would continue to be accountable to a share price rather than to a body of committed stakeholders . |
| 4 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 5 | Local authorities now have four main sources of funds for capital expenditure : borrowing , which is subject to approval by central government ; capital grants , also from central government , which will specify the purposes for which they are to be used , and the amount the local authority must itself contribute ; capital receipts , from the sale of assets such as land and council houses , though the local authorities must first set aside 50% of these receipts ( 75% in the case of council house sales ) towards repaying their debts ; and ordinary revenue from the Community Charge , etc. , for which the government assumes the local authorities to be accountable to their voters ( CIPFA , 1990 , Chapter 20.3 ; HM Treasury , 1990 , Chapter 21 , Paras . |
| 6 | Since it can not be accountable to national Parliaments , it ought to be accountable to the European Parliament . |
| 7 | To be a good manager requires one to handle this array in such a way that education is fed and fostered — education which is provided by teachers , encouraged by parents , watched over by governors , expected to be accountable to central and local government and capable of satisfying everyone that high quality is delivered . |
| 8 | 6 ) Some of our constituents may be alarmed at the implications of page 3 para 3 , not so much on the question of ‘ equality ’ but of accountability , and the suggestion that Christian Aid should be required to be accountable to our partners would take a lot of explaining . |