Example sentences of "[being] [adv] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each string , then , is associated in the player 's mind with a definite note , which is played on the same string whether it is flat , sharp , or natural , the pedals being alone responsible for the chromatic alterations . |
| 2 | He had a deeply rooted fear of being personally responsible for any diminution at all in the lands committed to his care . |
| 3 | Twenty-eight replies to the ‘ worst things ’ question mentioned housework or its monotonous , boring quality as the most disliked dimension ; a further six described negatively the women 's feeling of being constantly responsible for home and children . |
| 4 | It was my first experience of being totally responsible for trying to get funds , selling people the idea and overseeing the building . " |
| 5 | The district councils being usually responsible for drawing up detailed local plans in accordance with policies defined in the structure plans . |
| 6 | Ten have been moved to other jobs , including the senior signalman , Mr Brian Hemingway , who was named as being directly responsible for the faulty wiring at Clapham Junction . |
| 7 | Via central training departments and other inter-authority groups specifically designed to assist training , such as Local Government Training Boards ; funding/staffing library departments , sometimes being directly responsible for the allocating of funds on training ; and by funding other organizations that may ultimately contribute to training in libraries . |
| 8 | In addition , the justice minister of the self-proclaimed republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina has accused Yugoslav TV 's editor-in-chief , Goran Milic , of being directly responsible for committing genocide on the Serbian people . |
| 9 | But he continued to serve her mother , being partly responsible for the tragedy of the duchess 's lady-in-waiting , Lady Flora Hastings [ q.v. ] , who died of a tumour while suspected of being pregnant by Conroy . |
| 10 | ‘ You ca n't possibly … you ca n't leave me here , in New York , alone with the children ! ’ she exclaimed helplessly , panicking at the thought of being solely responsible for the two little girls . |
| 11 | But also the party system itself is credited by MacPherson as being chiefly responsible for the preservation of the institution of private property and the market mechanism , notwithstanding the extension of the franchise which took place during the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Thus , whereas classicism 's image of human nature portrayed all human beings as being fully responsible for their own actions , Bentham saw criminals as having limited rationality and responsibility , but thought that they could be made more rational by the correct application of reformative techniques in his ‘ mill for grinding rogues honest ’ , as he called the Panopticon . |
| 13 | Page being primarily responsible for the poems of Meleager and Gow for all the rest . |
| 14 | Short-term money market accounts yielding high interest were abolished , to be replaced by a " Social Development Fund " where short-term money would be pooled to finance the debts of state and local government , blamed by the government as being primarily responsible for driving up the money supply . |