Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] responsible for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depth of divisions during the debate and the strength of the opposition was apparently responsible for the plenum overrunning its original two-day schedule . |
| 2 | The International Herald Tribune of Aug. 10 quoted United States scientists as saying that acid pollution from Mexico 's oil industry was largely responsible for the recent rapid deterioration of some of that country 's Mayan monuments , notably those of the Yucatán peninsula . |
| 3 | If we decided through the first of these two methods , which begins with moral assessment of each individual 's record one by one , that each shareholder was indeed responsible for a share of the loss , then we might well report our conclusion in the language of personification . |
| 4 | This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance . |
| 5 | The mean time taken to achieve a normal cry , although shorter in the artemether group , was not significantly so , and the difference was not responsible for the significant difference in coma resolution times . |
| 6 | In other words , Big Bang was not responsible for the increase in volatility since the crash . |
| 7 | A reduction in the incidence of progressive heart failure was primarily responsible for the reduced mortality . |
| 8 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 9 | His sons continued the business after James Muspratt retired , and Max Muspratt 's father was largely responsible for the merger which formed the United Alkali Co. in 1890 . |
| 10 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 11 | Although before the Courts Act 1971 in theory it could be claimed that government was ultimately responsible for the running of the courts , in practice responsibility was so diffused between local authorities , the High Sheriffs and Under Sheriffs of counties , and the judiciary , that there was no real way in which Parliament could call anyone to account . |
| 12 | Geldart was mainly responsible for the Boro side that reached the FA Youth Cup final three years ago . |
| 13 | A LOW-FLYING seagull was partly responsible for the death of a jockey and his horse , an Australian coroner 's court ruled yesterday . |
| 14 | Under the arrangements for health care provision current in 1990 the DHA was not responsible for the provision of general practitioner ( GP ) services . |
| 15 | First-rate opera has never been free from controversy ; but managing London 's premier opera house in the 17605 was a particularly hazardous occupation , especially as there was no formal state subsidy and the impresario was personally responsible for the finances . |
| 16 | But the University was n't responsible for the cuts or the erosion of lecturers ' salaries . |
| 17 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 18 | The climate of this region was largely responsible for the adaptation of Byzantine roofing methods . |
| 19 | The whole of Great Britain was divided between them on a strictly geographical basis , and — subject to the general supervision of the British Railways Board and its chief officers in London — each region was completely responsible for the planning , working , and selling of all rail services in its area ( except in the seven provincial centres where PTEs had been established ) . |