Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had been responsible [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 2 | The " Daily Telegraph " had no " duty " , in this sense , to publish mere rumours and suspicions that a public servant had been responsible for losing millions of pounds of public money . |
| 3 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 4 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 5 | Indeed , the persistent rumours before the current attack had been responsible in some measure for the slowness of the authorities to react on Dec. 1 , 1989 , and coup rumours continued well into 1990 . |
| 6 | The third class of sites covers those developed linear and road-junction sites where increasingly centralized tendencies had been responsible for the growth of an irregular internal street system well beyond the initial main roads . |
| 7 | In it , the Welsh Office stated that a solution for Wales had to take into account four major factors which distinguished it from England : the Welsh Office had been responsible for public sector higher education in Wales since 1978 ; the scale of the problem was quite different in that only eight local authorities and a small number of colleges were involved ; the Regional Advisory Council for the whole of Wales , the WJEC , was made up of these local authorities ; and it did not make sense , either on economic or educational grounds , to expect colleges in Wales to provide as wide a range of provision as would be expected in England . |
| 8 | For a time she had even innocently believed that Luke 's father 's recent death had been responsible for the anger she had sensed in him , until she gradually grew aware that it was something personal , directed at her , his dealings with most of the station 's personnel characterised by charm , his impatience with any inadequacies purely professional . |
| 9 | In the 1921 election a leaflet in support of the candidature of Kerrison argued that the Labour Party had been responsible for implementing the 1918 Act , providing home helps for poor mothers and supplying free milk in necessitous cases . |