Example sentences of "may [be] responsible for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Consider now to what extent changes in a country 's monetary variables may be responsible for cyclical variations in real output .
2 This blood-sucking abomasal nematode may be responsible for extensive losses in sheep and cattle , especially in tropical areas .
3 There are three or four geochemical classes of plumes , and a different process may be responsible for each class .
4 The police believe he may be responsible for three robberies which took place in the Thames Valley region in one afternoon .
5 These data suggest that technical factors may be responsible for some cases of puchitis with mucosal ischaemia being a possible pathogenetic mechanism .
6 Only one member of this genus , Syngamus trachea , is of veterinary significance and parasitises the upper respiratory tract of non-aquatic birds ; it is commonly known as the " gapeworm " and may be responsible for respiratory distress and death .
7 There are several possible mechanisms which may be responsible for this adaptation .
8 There are three main factors that may be responsible for this behaviour .
9 These disorders are phenotypically distinct , depending on the parent of origin of the deleted chromosome , but both syndromes are often associated with hypopigmentation of the skin , hair and eyes ( see ref. 8 for review ) , and deletion of the P gene may be responsible for this hypopigmentation .
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