Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] be responsible for " 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 | The Harrow , Middlesex-based firm has been responsible for designing , re-engineering , coding and implementing IBM 's Customer Information Control System , CICS , on top of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment and Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing services to run on RS/6000s under AIX Version 3.2 . |
| 4 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 5 | As the Conservative party has been in power for 12 years , who does the Prime Minister think is responsible for the economic and social malaise ? |
| 6 | We do not suggest that the Conservative Government has been responsible for that , we doubt that a Labour Government would have done any better . |
| 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 . |