Example sentences of "are responsible for the [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 If it did , it might be valuable in patients with gout , when abnormal deposits of uric acid are responsible for the development of intensely painful joints .
2 In his report Developing an acquisitions system for a university library , Hindle proposes a system in which university departments are responsible for the development of research collections , while library staff control the provision of teaching materials .
3 Three departments are responsible for the range of courses and research within the Faculty :
4 There are forty-seven county councils in England and Wales , and these are responsible for the provision of education , personal social services , roads and planning .
5 Instead , they are usually part of the worm burden of trichostrongyloid species which are responsible for the syndrome of parasitic gastroenteritis in sheep and as such may be controlled by the measures outlined below .
6 As described above the Directors are responsible for the preparation of the accounts .
7 Because one or more non-ethanolic components of the beverages are responsible for the release of gastric acid and gastrin it is possible that they may be partly responsible for the detrimental effects of alcohol abuse .
8 The realist approach , although developed as an extension of the functional positivist approach , attempted to probe beyond the relationships derived from observed regularities and to seek the mechanisms and underlying structures which are responsible for the operation of environmental processes .
9 These findings suggest that factors , in addition to biliary cholesterol saturation , are responsible for the formation of cholesterol gall stones .
10 Functional department heads are responsible for the organisation of the department , but project coordinators are responsible for all aspects of the project itself .
11 Within these social processes , which are responsible for the construction of poverty in old age ( and , incidentally , the social construction of old age itself ) , the situation of older women is significantly different from that of older men .
12 The results reported in this article confirm the widely held belief that ICAEW member firms are responsible for the audit of the vast majority of major companies and institutions in the UK .
13 Individually , none of these developments are responsible for the advent of an underclass .
14 Men do not share support with child care simply because so few of them are responsible for the care of children , and so on .
15 The women 's movement in the USA has played a major role in exposing the similar processes which are responsible for the creation of sexism and ageism ( and , for that matter , racism ) .
16 Illegal hunting and industrial pollution from both sides of the canal are responsible for the demise of the colony , which numbered 15,000 in the 1960s .
17 Therefore , it may be these additional lymphocytes which are responsible for the enteropathy of coeliac disease and γ-interferon may play no direct pathogenic role in this condition .
18 The machine is the crux of Ingrid 's business : her innovations in the craft of felting are contributory and her designs are responsible for the sort of client who commissions her , but without the machine it could n't have happened .
19 To imply disabled people are responsible for the under-payment of personal assistance services in these circumstances is a nauseating misrepresentation of facts .
20 The local police are responsible for the safety of their areas .
21 For our purposes , it is only necessary to mention the larger , superficial muscle groups which affect the shape of the body and are responsible for the movement of the limbs .
22 For our purposes , it is only necessary to mention the larger , superficial muscle groups which affect the shape of the body and are responsible for the movement of the limbs .
23 They are responsible for the security of the building during the night and will often be required to operate the telephone switchboard if there is no telephonist on duty .
24 The Branch played an important role in the negotiation of a job evaluation scheme for the industry 's 30,000 technical engineering staff , who are responsible for the running of generating sets in power stations , installation and maintenance of the distribution network , construction planning , generation and transmission development , etc .
25 But perhaps it is asking too much to expect some sort of articulated political goal — especially of the young adolescents who are responsible for the bulk of working-class crime .
26 The figures presented in this table are provided by GRE , who are responsible for the administration of your policy and payment of all benefits .
27 The review goes on to suggest that Italians are responsible for the introduction of organised crime into the United States .
28 Within each hot kitchen there is a first cook with the cooks and assistant cooks working in each of the four corners where they are responsible for the production of lunch and dinner .
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