Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be responsible for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of actuaries are responsible for individual company pension schemes with funds amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds . |
| 2 | Ironically in view of their later slip down the headhunting league table , the firm of Boyden was responsible for one of the first major searches , a landmark in the history of executive search and a vital precursor of the work of the Big four . |
| 3 | A fairly narrow range of people are responsible for key decisions ; some of these attain such positions through democratic representational procedures , but they co-opt others to their ranks . |
| 4 | Whole groups of state-owned enterprises would be sold , with the Council of Ministers being responsible for each enterprise on offer . |
| 5 | Thugs like Watson are responsible for that reign of terror . |
| 6 | Friction and pressure from shoes are responsible for two of the most common foot ailments : corns and calluses . |
| 7 | Dark Age Boiotian emigrants to Anatolia are responsible for Boiotian-type place-names like Erythrai and Mykale in Asia Minor ( though the red , erythros , soil of Boiotian Erythrai and the red stone of the Ionian city make the name physically appropriate for both ) . |
| 8 | Space was a premium particularly on Summer Saturdays , and the congestion at the shed throat caused by engines coming off , and going on shed was responsible for most of the delays along the North Wales coast when locomotives changes were necessary , particularly for the Butlins ' workings . |
| 9 | Bagging experiments in Panama on Luehea seemanii ( Tiliaceae ) , which has ! lowers opening at night , suggestive of a nocturnal pollination syndrome , showed that diurnal visits by bees were responsible for higher numbers of fruits and seeds set . |