Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] responsible for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is not to say that businessmen should be responsible for all the indirect effects of their policies and actions , or that , for example , the individuals in the company responsible for the hoist accident described above should be charged and sentenced for murder . |
| 3 | For a start , the resident sound engineer did n't like it , because he had n't been consulted about its introduction and he maintained that he should be responsible for all sound equipment . |
| 4 | Otherwise , impact scattering and condensation from impact vapour must be responsible for this uniformity . |
| 5 | What might be responsible for such an unusual pattern of performance ? |
| 6 | ‘ Who do you think might be responsible for all these things you ca n't explain ? |
| 7 | He concludes : ‘ such a process might be responsible for many of the phenomena of Earth Mysteries , indeed for most paranormal events which , like the salmon , are often extremely elusive . ’ |
| 8 | The mechanisms that might be responsible for these effects are in need of fuller specification but the effort would perhaps not be worthwhile since in fact they do not account for the results to be explained . |
| 9 | I 'm Nick and I 'm the development director for Moat , responsible for all of our new development activities and I have with me tonight Sally our assistant development manager for Essex , who 'll be responsible for this project and also two of our consultants dealing with the scheme , Alan from Anglian Design who are acting as architects on the scheme and Howard from Space , who have been acting as our employer 's agent and consultant and will administer the building contract for , for all the phases of this , this project . |
| 10 | As they drew nearer to the damage and she could see that it was even worse than it had looked from afar , Ronni felt herself recoil at the very thought that her own brother could be responsible for such a thing . |
| 11 | I first realised that herbs could reproduce this effect — ; and later wondered if a lack of them could be responsible for some of the diseases that seem particular to fish of this area . |
| 12 | The wrong sort of chair may be responsible for many of our backaches today . |
| 13 | One office may be responsible for many millions of pounds worth of purchase orders . |
| 14 | There are three or four geochemical classes of plumes , and a different process may be responsible for each class . |
| 15 | A further 7 per cent ( 31 ) of ulcers occurred above the gaiter area ; trauma may be responsible for some of these , particularly those on the anterior aspect , but the aetiological pattern of ulcers occurring in this region have been found to be so varied that positive aetiological indicators can not be identified from the ulcer site alone . |
| 16 | These data suggest that technical factors may be responsible for some cases of puchitis with mucosal ischaemia being a possible pathogenetic mechanism . |
| 17 | There is now increasing evidence that smaller cells of diameter 2–20 um have been seriously underestimated in energy budgets ; they may be responsible for half the total primary production in southern waters and no less in the north . |
| 18 | These disorders are phenotypically distinct , depending on the parent of origin of the deleted chromosome , but both syndromes are often associated with hypopigmentation of the skin , hair and eyes ( see ref. 8 for review ) , and deletion of the P gene may be responsible for this hypopigmentation . |
| 19 | There are three main factors that may be responsible for this behaviour . |
| 20 | There are several possible mechanisms which may be responsible for this adaptation . |
| 21 | Additionally , it has been reported that circulating PYY concentrations are raised in patients with malabsorption and it was possible that high colonic fatty acid concentrations may be responsible for this exaggerated PYY release . |
| 22 | However the whole team would be responsible for all aspects of Council Tax for individual taxpayers in that area . |
| 23 | Although the local authority would be responsible for any damages in cases of negligence , it could in turn take disciplinary action against teachers . |
| 24 | It is envisaged in the report that a database administrator would be responsible for this overall schema data definition and at ANSI/X3/SPARC terminology , via the sub-schema DDL . |
| 25 | They recommended , therefore , seven regional authorities which would be responsible for most of the major local authority services and thirty-seven district authorities . |
| 26 | ‘ The Lead Organization ’ shall mean Oxford University Press which , acting on behalf of all of the Parties , shall be responsible for all communications with IEATP , shall receive any grant offer from the Secretary of State and shall act as Project Manager for the carrying out of the Project . |
| 27 | Both cases involved plant hire contracts on the Contractors Plant Association standard terms which provided in clause 8 that drivers of equipment supplied by the owner were : for all purposes in connection with their employment in the working of the plant to be regarded as the servants or agents of the hirer … who alone shall be responsible for all claims arising in connection with the operation of the plant by the said drivers or operators . |
| 28 | A tenant could be held responsible for an absentee landlord , in the same way that a married couple and partners living together as husband and wife will be responsible for each other . |
| 29 | For the benefit of the clients , and also for the orderly conduct of the promotion , the agent will normally supply a table of steps , setting out clearly the various procedural steps required by the General Orders , in chronological order , and showing who precisely will be responsible for each step ; most of the steps are taken by the agent , but in some cases local newspaper advertisement and local service is undertaken by the client . |
| 30 | The British Technology Group will be responsible for all patenting and for handling licensing of any technologies which the member companies do not want . |