Example sentences of "[vb pp] responsible for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Welfare , in the broader view of which this approach to child care might be deemed a part , is construed in individual terms : individuals are deemed responsible for their conduct , and little weight is given to structural , environmental and material determinants of behaviour . |
2 | Style accounts for all kinds of nuance between these , and indeed between these and the factors deemed responsible for their manufacture . |
3 | When a bitch in whelp comes into the centre one of the staff is made responsible for her care throughout her stay . |
4 | An NPP Operations Manager , Mr. Yankov , was made responsible for its completion and he quickly identified a co-ordinator and a full list of authors . |
5 | Each sector was made responsible for its net revenue results ; previously , there had been no responsibility for overall profit and loss below the level of the chief executive . |
6 | The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management . |
7 | The basis of morality and law-abiding behaviour has become the family and it follows that parents must be made responsible for their children 's misdemeanours . |
8 | " In future , anyone who produces and markets vehicles should also be made responsible for their disposal . " |
9 | Parents have got to be made responsible for their children 's action , ’ she said . |
10 | She had felt responsible for her twin since their mother had died two years ago . |
11 | Since they were chosen by the landowners of the county , the latter were held responsible for their conduct in office . |
12 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
13 | One — in the important legal sense — raised the question of whether the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for their crimes . |
14 | 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 ’ . |
15 | Under retributive justice punishment is justified because it is ‘ deserved ’ by free , choice-making individuals who are held responsible for their actions . |
16 | The only area in which this strategy is likely to come unstuck is health , where even radical supporters of Thatcherite policies have recognised that the sick can not be held responsible for their illness . |
17 | Miserably , she backed out of the room , not wanting to desert Mrs Browning and be held responsible for her collapse , if collapse there was to be . |
18 | It had been very different for her but he could n't be held responsible for her folly . |
19 | ‘ I 'm giving you one final warning , Adam — if you touch me I wo n't be held responsible for my actions ! ’ |
20 | ‘ You ca n't be held responsible for your distaste for politics , I suppose . ’ |
21 | If you do , you remain responsible for your child even while you 're out and if anything goes wrong , you 'd be held responsible for your babysitter 's welfare , too . |
22 | The judge dismissed the wife 's appeal , holding that since there was no evidence that in deceiving his wife the husband was acting on behalf of the bank , they could not be held responsible for his misrepresentation and , therefore , the charge was enforceable against her . |
23 | It follows that the bank can not be held responsible for his misrepresentation . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Non-use has essentially been considered as a negative response to the catalogue and the library user has been held responsible for his own shortcomings . |
26 | Bentley was mentally deficient and many believed he should not have been held responsible for his actions . |