Example sentences of "[be] [adv] responsible for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our adult education service does not have staff who are wholly responsible for special needs and is dependent upon generic full-timers and a few specialist part-timers . |
| 2 | However , another potential source of inequality , ‘ cream skimming ’ , which arises with HMOs is removed since , unlike HMOs , DHAs are compulsorily responsible for all residents and thus can not select only the lower risks . |
| 3 | Internal migration within Britain has been largely responsible for these trends , with the level of net immigration to the South rising from 24 000 a year in 1971/73 to 45–50 000 a year by the end of the 1970s and rising steadily since 1981 to reach 69 000 in 1985/6 ( figure 8.2 ) . |
| 4 | Some aspects of physical decline in old age are largely responsible for comparable decline in social functioning . |
| 5 | These issues have been intensified by the fact that , because of the very restrictive conditions operating in the Britain of today , most notably those relating to the labour market and housing , the migration processes which are largely responsible for these shifts have proved more than normally selective in terms of the types of people involved . |
| 6 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 7 | These mediators are probably responsible for pathological changes because it is known that these mediators can induce an inflammatory response by changing capillary permeability , inducing inflammatory cell infiltration , and activating the inflammatory cells . |
| 8 | Wales consists of 8 administrative Counties further divided into a larger number of Districts ( which between these two tiers are mainly responsible for local government ) and a much larger number of Communities ( or Parishes ) . |
| 9 | The plague may not , however , have been solely responsible for urban decay , as there are few signs of the expansion of suburbs in English towns between 1300 and the end of the Middle Ages , and at Oxford there are references to houses falling into decay as early as 1340 . |
| 10 | The ten authorities acquired control of water services from a variety of other bodies including river authorities and local authorities , and are now responsible for all matters connected with the use and disposal of water : water conservation and supply ; land drainage ; amenity , recreation , and fisheries ; and pollution control . |
| 11 | As well as being party to the future plans of its vendor clients — many of whom will be directly responsible for developing technology which will fuel these forces — Gartner has arrived at 1995 by using diffusion theory , which is a way of interpreting something , in this case open systems , by examining the natural movement of its components . |
| 12 | ( An overt OR might serve as an index of this central change but would not , in itself , be directly responsible for most cases of latent inhibition . ) |
| 13 | Funding restrictions may be partly responsible for these absences , but they also reflect the mental health system 's capacity to resist new responses to mental distress . |
| 14 | 4.1 The Publisher shall not be legally responsible for any loss or damage ( howsoever arising ) to the Work its illustrations and other related material while it is in the Publisher 's custody or in the course of production . |
| 15 | 4.1 The Publisher shall not be legally responsible for any loss or damage ( howsoever arising ) to the Work its illustrations and other related material while it is in the Publisher 's custody or in the course of production . |
| 16 | ( In some cases we can be more specific and assert that the associative mechanism in question must be that responsible for acquired equivalence . |
| 17 | He had a deeply rooted fear of being personally responsible for any diminution at all in the lands committed to his care . |
| 18 | They were largely responsible for overseas trade , and the towns provided centres for the regional economy of their own part of the country . |
| 19 | Responsibility for the education of severely subnormal children in England and Wales was transferred by this Act from the health authorities to the local education authorities ; LEAs were thereafter responsible for all establishments caring for mentally handicapped children . |
| 20 | The mosquitoes which carry malaria breed far north into Europe , and although less virulent than some tropical species , they were still responsible for many deaths . |
| 21 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 22 | IRA bombers were probably responsible for two nights of blasts on Tyneside at a gas depot and Esso oil terminal say Northumbria police . |
| 23 | District nurses were solely responsible for current treatment in the majority of cases |
| 24 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 25 | Mahathir denounced industrialized nations for criticizing logging in southern states , when it was they who were mainly responsible for global warming . |
| 26 | It is migration patterns that are primarily responsible for these shifts , and they are also related to changes in residential preferences and to trends in the location of employment and housing opportunities . |
| 27 | The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organisation ( HMO ) , with the difference that the health authority is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership . |
| 28 | ] The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organization ( HMO ) , with the difference that the ‘ organization ’ is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership . |
| 29 | Although this parasite is prevalent throughout the world , it is only responsible for sporadic outbreaks of disease in temperate countries such as Britain and North America . |
| 30 | This requirement contributes to the excusing element in the provocation doctrine , the idea being that a person who has lost self-control is less responsible for subsequent conduct . |