Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] were responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 2 | Would you agree that you were responsible for the sound of the ‘ new ’ Fleetwood Mac ? |
| 3 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 4 | This shift in emphasis has taken place partly because the restrictions on the use of organo-chloride pesticides introduced in the 1960s have enabled some of the more extreme threats to wildlife preservation to recede and partly because pesticide manufacturers countered nature conservationist claims that they were responsible for the reduction in bird population by arguing that hedgerow and woodland removal could be the prime culprits . |
| 5 | If they did , they would be forced to answer parliamentary questions and they might find that they were responsible for feeding the refugee population . |
| 6 | Dissident Shia groups were also reported on Jan. 9 to have claimed that they were responsible for killing a group of senior air force officers during an attack on air force headquarters in Baghdad . |
| 7 | The prosecution admitted that Gbagbo and his coaccused had not themselves committed any crimes , but argued that they were responsible for the violence committed that day . |
| 8 | He talked of the Governor Support Unit and I 'd like to remind Councillor and his group that they were responsible for taking over a hundred posts out of the administrative section of . |
| 9 | Those officers were especially selected from erm the firearms officers we had available at that time and they were responsible for all firearms operations within the county . |
| 10 | We all stood staring at the flower as if it were responsible for Ruthven 's death . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , they were one of the more important points of contact , since they were responsible for determining the political complexion of the House of Commons . |
| 12 | They are popular group , and the fiercest lobby in the business : no one asks of widows — as they do of unmarried mothers or the divorced — whether they were responsible for their own plight . |
| 13 | I too remember when Darlington was a county borough and we had a lovely town when we were responsible for our own efficiency and everything in the garden was lovely . |