Example sentences of "[being] responsible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a designer of extraordinary versatility , being responsible for the standard ‘ traditional ’ red telephone kiosk , Waterloo Bridge and several power stations . |
| 2 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 3 | The owners who undertook the conversion of Place Barn were Mr and Mrs J. de Geus — Mrs Ann de Geus being responsible for the concept and much of the detailed design of the conversion . |
| 4 | The seven Chakras , or energy vortex centres , are interconnected — each Chakra being responsible for the distribution of life-energy , received from the environment via the energy body or ‘ causal body ’ — to a respective organ of the endocrine system . |
| 5 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 6 | The difference between this and the more probabilistic version of determinism is in what it is that is seen as being responsible for the ‘ looseness ’ of the association . |
| 7 | They were seen as being responsible for the real problems that confront ordinary citizens . |
| 8 | Being responsible for the birth of a child is one of the most important events in which a human being can be involved . |
| 9 | The dock company , being responsible for the port 's facilities had control of the Gillingham Gate , the only access to the port and , therefore , all vehicles going to and from the port had to use Bridge Road and Medway Road . |
| 10 | Sec. and Chairman being responsible for the counting . |
| 11 | Coffee regards risk aversion as being responsible for the construction of bloated , inefficient mega-firms in the 1960s , in turn creating the setting for the wave of ‘ bust-up ’ take-overs of the late 1980s . |
| 12 | The 1980s saw a number of reports on community care that cited low funding and poor planning and coordination of projects as being responsible for the lack of a developed community care initiative to support all people , including the elderly , in the community in their own homes . |
| 13 | Thus patients ' analgesic response to morphine appears to depend on their 3-glucuronide:6-glucuronide ratio , the 6-glucuronide being responsible for the analgesic effect . |
| 14 | As with civil servants , officers in local government have both a managerial role — being responsible for the efficient running of their department- and a policy-advisory function . |
| 15 | He was first put in charge of the tunnels and other works between Bristol and Bath , as well as being responsible for the manufacture of coke at the company 's Bristol works , where he initiated several important improvements . |
| 16 | Departments , being responsible for the subjects in which modules are taught , have information needs at the subject committee level . |
| 17 | The whole eruption probably lasted only about 100 days , but was long accepted as being responsible for the destruction of the Minoan civilisation on Crete , 60 miles away . |
| 18 | Wearily he checked the table china , the hotel staff being responsible for the less venerable Literary Lionisers . |
| 19 | Balfour & Sibbald were co-founders of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , and Balfour is also credited with being responsible for the introduction of the paper-making industry into Scotland . |
| 20 | Emec , who was regarded as a conservative , had spoken out publicly against religious fundamentalism and had accused Syria of being responsible for the rising wave of terrorism . |
| 21 | It was established that Talb , while in Malta , had met Hafez Dalkammoni , a leading member of Ahmed Jabril 's Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) , which was suspected by US intelligence of being responsible for the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 22 | Finance Minister Barend du Plessis defended the right of the NP to hold the rally , and accused Terreblanche of being responsible for the deaths . |
| 23 | If the users participate more , perhaps being responsible for the design , then they are far more likely to be satisfied with and be committed to the system once it is implemented . |
| 24 | This meant that the book not only had to pass general political censorship , commonly known as glavlit , the main obstacle for works of fiction ; it also had to be approved by the relevant government institutions , the Ministry of Atomic Energy , whose senior officials were named by Medvedev as being responsible for the accident . |
| 25 | He was also strongly opposed to the CNAA being responsible for the development of a rival system to that of the universities , rather than the safety net for the universities that he had envisaged . |
| 26 | Acetylcholine is known to be cotransmitted with vasoactive intestinal polypeptide at the synapse between the sympathetic nerve and the sweat gland , vasoactive intestinal polypeptide probably being responsible for the local vasodilation which is necessary for a normal sweat response . |
| 27 | The two bodies would occupy a central position , being responsible for the monitoring of water and air , the setting of standards and the regulation of emissions and discharges . |