Example sentences of "responsible for [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plaintiffs must prove that the words of which they complain have a defamatory meaning , that the words refer to them , and that the defendant was responsible for publishing them . |
| 2 | It was a general principle of English and also Scandinavian medieval law that relatives who inherited land were responsible for supporting its former owners , including widows . |
| 3 | A characteristic archeus — a kind of overseer — was postulated in each organ , responsible for organizing its chemical and metabolic activity . |
| 4 | Who is responsible for calculating them ? |
| 5 | We are , each of us , personally responsible for damaging our environment . |
| 6 | In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act , colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings , funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education , further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training , stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more . |
| 7 | Chief executive Alan Smith said : ‘ Board members are right behind the team and the people responsible for picking it . ’ |
| 8 | It is named after Sethos ' successor , Ramesses II ( who was mainly responsible for building it ) , " the House of Ramesses " , " Raamses " ( 1:11 ) . |
| 9 | They are also responsible for helping you with your development and for appraising your performance , see APPRAISAL AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING . |
| 10 | Garvin himself , before he became Commandant , had been responsible for training them . |
| 11 | Except , significantly , the caterpillar responsible for drugging it . |
| 12 | Mr Thomson also felt undermined because ‘ untoward occurrences ’ , including allegations of staff threatening residents , were not being relayed to him for up to three weeks , even though he was legally responsible for reporting them to the county council . |
| 13 | Despite conflicting statements from Tehran and press conjecture centring on Libya , it was never clear who was responsible for laying them . |
| 14 | It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles . |
| 15 | It is popular to believe that managers are responsible for developing their people but closer examination reveals this to be a nonsense . |
| 16 | It was now painfully obvious to him that he was dealing with a very fragile mental state , and he did n't want to be responsible for setting it off balance irreparably . |
| 17 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 18 | No one who is responsible for massacring his fellow citizens will be accepted as a partner in the effort to bring peace to Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | my teacher knows the truth , and is responsible for telling it to me clearly , |
| 20 | It must be affordable to those who are responsible for financing it ( for example , the government or the local people ) . |
| 21 | But his office issued a decree he had signed on Monday containing a strong warning to all regional government officials that he would hold them personally responsible for obeying his orders . |
| 22 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 23 | The water industry in Britain is divided up into a number of autonomous water companies and councils ( Chapter 3 gives details ) and each is responsible for producing its own water bye-laws . |
| 24 | Loper is following up recent research by several scientists , particularly H. Weber and colleagues of the Institute of Toxicology in Zurich , Switzerland and John Brooker at the University of Adelaide , Australia : Weber found that dogs fed massive doses of one type of dioxin , TCDD , detoxified the chemical with the liver enzyme , cytochrome p 450 mon-oxygenase , and Brooker used chick embryos as a source of the enzyme to track down the messenger RNA responsible for producing it . |
| 25 | Remembering just in time that this heartless cynic was responsible for getting her out of the clutches of the Gibraltar Police and Customs Service , Polly managed to bite back the caustic retort trembling on the tip of her tongue and stared blankly at the vast selection of starters and main courses . |
| 26 | ‘ This is ludicrous because we are responsible for getting them out of any real trouble , should it arise . |
| 27 | Kelburne , winners of the title for the past three years are always at their best when forced into a tight corner and so on this occasion Magee was the man responsible for getting them out of jail . |
| 28 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |
| 29 | It would be appreciated if teachers could please be responsible for getting their ‘ guinea pigs ’ to and from the venue . |
| 30 | Uncle was really responsible for getting it organised — sponsorship and so forth . |