Example sentences of "[adv] responsible for [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave the pope an account of the evidence that had been brought forward , giving first place , and by far the greatest amount of space , to the testimony of Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which showed that the archbishops of Canterbury , acting on the authority of Pope Gregory I and his successors , had exercised general authority over the whole of the British Isles during the first hundred and forty years of its existence : they had consecrated bishops for all parts of the country , summoned councils , deposed unworthy bishops , and had been generally responsible for spreading Catholic discipline into Wales and Scotland . |
| 2 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 3 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 4 | Regardless of its exact status the telephone administration was itself largely responsible for setting technical standards , negotiating with international authorities and regulating many details of equipment and services . |
| 5 | Under the policy we are only responsible for providing a replacement item and are not responsible for supplying matching items . |
| 6 | Under the policy we are only responsible for providing a replacement item and are not responsible for supplying matching items . |
| 7 | Although these members of the Authority were formally responsible for determining general policy , there were obvious weaknesses . |
| 8 | Most liberals , like other feminists , believe that schools are partly responsible for instilling sexist attitudes into children . |
| 9 | ‘ The directors are also responsible for maintaining adequate accounting records , for safeguarding the assets of the group , and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities . ’ |
| 10 | STB is also responsible for operating system-independent platforms so third parties can sell Sun hardware with Novell Inc , real-time or perhaps competing software like Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 11 | Sparc Technology is also responsible for operating system-independent systems so third parties can sell Sun hardware with Novell Inc NetWare , real-time or perhaps competing software such as Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 12 | It is also responsible for curating large amounts of geological information including samples , cores , records and maps . |
| 13 | They are also responsible for preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view and are properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act , maintaining proper accounting records and having an effective system of internal financial control . |
| 14 | These Attachment Courts were also responsible for preventing illegal enclosures , and for giving landowners leave to cut timber in their own woods : thousands of acres of woodland in Essex were cleared during the eighteenth century by their leave , and with the licence of the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 15 | would be majorly responsible for getting long term results , as they would have to ensure that the area can survive independently again by building up their own food supplies through improving farming eg. better irrigation etc . |
| 16 | The inspectorate , who came into most frequent contact with the diversities of local procedures , were consistently interested in ‘ modernising ’ the selection system , and in some ways they were the single group most responsible for altering local authority activities . |
| 17 | Whilst the National Audit Office 's 1987 report subsequently criticised MDC for its initial policy failures there is some validity in its argument that the economic climate in the early 1980s , not MDC 's internal failings , was primarily responsible for curbing industrial growth on Merseyside . |
| 18 | Every Whitehall Department now has a nominated Minister who is specifically responsible for promoting equal opportunities in public appointments . |