Example sentences of "be responsible " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the ‘ pretext ’ for anything : the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here , as for the orotundity that precedes it . |
| 2 | It will be up to you to write constantly and make contacts everywhere and you will largely be responsible for yourself . |
| 3 | If that painting is lost , he said , I will never paint another , and you will be responsible . |
| 4 | Mr Wawryk will be responsible for building on the channel 's current base of more than 110,000 hotel rooms and for increasing the number of households able to receive MTV Europe . |
| 5 | When a glider is being moved around the airfield , one person should take charge of the whole operation and be responsible for the safety of the aircraft . |
| 6 | Had to be responsible all her life . |
| 7 | Designate yourself or a senior manager in your organisation to be responsible for seeing that the policy is applied reasonably and fairly . |
| 8 | What might be responsible for such an unusual pattern of performance ? |
| 9 | Somebody must be responsible , otherwise who is there to sue ? |
| 10 | I do n't think novelists can be responsible for the PR consequences of what they write . ’ |
| 11 | What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ? |
| 12 | In a report , Rental Purchase : The Case for Change , the housing pressure group says that people buying properties on rental purchase schemes — common in the north of England for cheaper property — should be protected as if they were assured tenants under the Housing Act 1988 , and landlords should be responsible for all repairs . |
| 13 | From then , licencees will be responsible for their own transmitters , either owning or leasing them . |
| 14 | The British Technology Group will be responsible for all patenting and for handling licensing of any technologies which the member companies do not want . |
| 15 | Finally ‘ bronze ’ officers would be responsible for post-disaster operations . |
| 16 | This approach could end the long-running battle between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trade Commission over which agency should be responsible for which new products . |
| 17 | The company said Mr Saatchi would now concentrate on the overall strategy of the business while Mr Louis-Dreyfus would be responsible for its profits growth . |
| 18 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 19 | It is generally felt that the manager should be responsible for his or her own office overheads , telephone bills , secretarial services and so on . |
| 20 | To do this , the accountant will discuss who will be responsible for them ( this might be a band member , the accountant or the band 's manager ) . |
| 21 | Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ? |
| 22 | The team who draws peg one will be responsible for weighing in their section , with peg two assisting as section stewards . |
| 23 | This new , private property would be , according to Engels and Morgan , in the hands of men , unlike the communal property of the gens , which was controlled by women , since they controlled the gens ; this was because Engels believed since men would be responsible for production at this stage it was natural that they would control what was necessary for production . |
| 24 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 25 | The Officer will be responsible for fundraising and financial management , logistical support , public relations and publications , servicing FYT 's Central Committees and Working Groups and project development . |
| 26 | The officer will be responsible for finding , training and supporting volunteers to assist in this task . |
| 27 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 28 | Eleven men found to be responsible . |
| 29 | ‘ The result would be that the NHS management would be responsible for the pay and conditions of a million people , but actually arbitrators would dispose of the resources . ’ |
| 30 | To qualify you must be responsible for one or more children aged under 16 , or under 19 if they are still in full-time non-advanced education . |