Example sentences of "[modal v] be responsible for [adj] " 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 | Who Should be Responsible for Diabetic Care ? |
| 5 | Er there was no constraints erm within the project or within the responsibility statement on saying that somebody else should be responsible for certain things that we felt were outside our , our remit . |
| 6 | The Cadbury Committee recommends that the chairman of the audit committee should be responsible for answering questions about its work at the agm . |
| 7 | He suggested , as I describe earlier , that the NHS should confine itself to health care , and local authorities should be responsible for social care . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Otherwise , impact scattering and condensation from impact vapour must be responsible for this uniformity . |
| 12 | This in turn has led clinicians to try to identify the factors that might be responsible for poor clinical results . |
| 13 | What might be responsible for such an unusual pattern of performance ? |
| 14 | ‘ Who do you think might be responsible for all these things you ca n't explain ? |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | It was Arthur Holmes who first suggested that mantle convection currents might be responsible for continental movements , but he lacked any direct geophysical data that might have supported his views . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Consider now to what extent changes in a country 's monetary variables may be responsible for cyclical variations in real output . |
| 22 | Our results indicate that epidermal LC express functional cadherins and suggest that cadherins may be responsible for certain biological properties of these highly specialized bone marrow-derived cells , including their propensity to persist in epidermis . |
| 23 | This blood-sucking abomasal nematode may be responsible for extensive losses in sheep and cattle , especially in tropical areas . |
| 24 | The wrong sort of chair may be responsible for many of our backaches today . |
| 25 | One office may be responsible for many millions of pounds worth of purchase orders . |
| 26 | There are three or four geochemical classes of plumes , and a different process may be responsible for each class . |
| 27 | The police believe he may be responsible for three robberies which took place in the Thames Valley region in one afternoon . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These data suggest that technical factors may be responsible for some cases of puchitis with mucosal ischaemia being a possible pathogenetic mechanism . |
| 30 | Only one member of this genus , Syngamus trachea , is of veterinary significance and parasitises the upper respiratory tract of non-aquatic birds ; it is commonly known as the " gapeworm " and may be responsible for respiratory distress and death . |