Example sentences of "be [adj] for [pos pn] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We now call our account managers entrepreneurs because they are responsible for their own budgets and for how they spend and allocate their funds . ’
2 Antonia , talking in London , said that at the end of the day ‘ you are responsible for your own actions ’ .
3 Further education colleges will gain new independence from April 1993 , and will be responsible for their own budgets .
4 From then , licencees will be responsible for their own transmitters , either owning or leasing them .
5 The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts .
6 Allowing small farmers in the countryside to be responsible for their own plots of land and to sell any surplus above the state quota on the free market and the encouragement of small-scale private enterprises in urban areas brought about great changes in Chinese society .
7 The formation of a company therefore involves the creation of a new legal entity which is able to trade and be responsible for its own actions .
8 Face that he fell for EX-LOVER Antonia says you are accountable for your own actions .
9 The council of ministers were intriguing for their own gains .
10 Yes but if they truly were answerable for their own budgets
11 How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ?
12 The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes .
13 Each recognised group receives an annual grant and is responsible for its own accounts .
14 This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief .
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