Example sentences of "[adv] [be] held [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A two-thirds majority , as provided for in the constitution , would only be held necessary for constitutional changes and legislation affecting human and civil rights . |
| 2 | If , however , the authority to make appointments to the board of a nationalised industry did not reside solely in Government , but in part in trade unions as the instruments of industrial democracy , the Secretary of State could no longer be held responsible for the fitness of the board to discharge its functions ; and it would no longer be meaningful for Members to ask Questions , nor possible for Government to answer them constructively . |
| 3 | However , individual engineers alone can not generally be held responsible for protecting society from risk ; those with managerial accountability must also bear some responsibility . |
| 4 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 5 | One dramatic concomitant is rising fertility among unmarried teenage girls , though changes in women 's education standards and work status can hardly be held accountable for such a sharp upswing in teenage fertility as the past decade has witnessed . |
| 6 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 7 | He is nonetheless being held responsible for putting things right . |
| 8 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 9 | As a result , the purchaser can now be held responsible for all dismissal claims by employees dismissed in connection with the sale even if the dismissals took place at a time earlier than literally " immediately before " the transfer . |
| 10 | A manager may feel that his subordinate will carry out the work badly , and that he himself will ultimately be held responsible for his subordinate 's errors . |
| 11 | Presumably the justification is that D has already crossed a high moral/social threshold in choosing to commit such a serious offence , and should therefore be held liable for whatever consequences ensue , however unforeseeable they may be . |
| 12 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |