Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] been responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electoral alliance , the Nationalist Action for Peace ( Acción Nacionalista por la Paz ) , was unexpectedly announced on Feb 7 by Carlos Pizarro Leóngómez , leader of the left-wing guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) , and José Joaquín Matallana , a former Army general who as Director of the Department for the Administration of Security ( DAS ) in the mid-1970s had been responsible for combating the activities of the M-19 and other guerrilla groups . |
| 2 | Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks . |
| 3 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 4 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 5 | The EIA have been responsible for the ban in the ivory trade , and their campaign on the plight of captured wild birds has resulted in 74 major airlines refusing to co-operate in the transport of wild birds . |
| 6 | Over the years has been responsible for improving the mill control systems throughout the country ; updating the simple push buttons on the walls to the present day fully computerised systems . |
| 7 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |
| 8 | According to the authorities the commando had been responsible for a number of recent attacks in the province of Bilbao , which had claimed the lives of five people . |
| 9 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 10 | It goes without saying that the definition has been responsible for a major literature . |
| 11 | The Government have been responsible for much of the secrecy surrounding many of their policies . |
| 12 | One of the most interesting features of the building is the Trivulzio chapel through which the basilica is entered , its position on the original façade of the church having been responsible for the loss of the early , Romanesque , frontage . |
| 13 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 14 | Until now several teams in different parts of the country have been responsible for organ co-ordination . |
| 15 | Rabah Kebir , a senior figure in the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who had reportedly escaped from house arrest in August and was said to be attempting to form an Islamist government in exile , said in an interview with Le Monde of Sept. 18 that the FIS wanted a dialogue with the government , and denied that the party had been responsible for the Algiers airport bombing , or for the assassination in June of the former HCS President , Mohamed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 ] . |
| 16 | Charles Lambe denied that the Tories had been responsible for raising the Sacheverell mobs , and blamed the Whigs for instilling into people the idea that " they are the original of government " . |