Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [be] responsible for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He suggested , as I describe earlier , that the NHS should confine itself to health care , and local authorities should be responsible for social care .
2 Consider now to what extent changes in a country 's monetary variables may be responsible for cyclical variations in real output .
3 Additionally , it has been reported that circulating PYY concentrations are raised in patients with malabsorption and it was possible that high colonic fatty acid concentrations may be responsible for this exaggerated PYY release .
4 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 .
5 ABB and Brush will design and build 40 electric locomotives , the remaining three Euroshuttle companies will manufacture 252 ‘ tourist ’ wagons to carry passengers , cars and non-commercial vehicles ; and the Italian companies will be responsible for 252 freight wagons .
6 New state governments would be responsible for local administration and some tax collection , with central government retaining control over foreign policy , military affairs , trade , the economy and other key sectors .
7 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 .
8 In October 1986 , the Secretary of State for Health announced the setting up of a project in which ten voluntary agencies would be responsible for self-help family centres .
9 Finally ‘ bronze ’ officers would be responsible for post-disaster operations .
10 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 .
11 These data suggest that technical factors may be responsible for some cases of puchitis with mucosal ischaemia being a possible pathogenetic mechanism .
12 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 .
13 Thus , if sufficient sulphate is available in vivo , our belief is that sulphate reducing bacteria will be responsible for most of the H 2 utilised by the gut microflora .
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