Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be responsible for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vet 's responsible for it . |
| 2 | But the person is responsible for their |
| 3 | She guessed that the earthquake was responsible for his presence , since flights in and out of Taipei were functioning normally again already , but whatever concern had brought him was unlikely to be personal . |
| 4 | At first , the parish was responsible for its poor , then came the union of parishes and then the Boards of Guardians followed by the local authorities ( county and county borough councils ) . |
| 5 | When the rapist is a government agent , that rape is torture or ill-treatment and the state is responsible for it . " |
| 6 | And the House of Lords reversed the Court of Appeal and decided that the union was responsible for its shop stewards . |
| 7 | After the wine for the day had been chosen by the master of the house , the butler was responsible for its presentation at table . |
| 8 | The prevailing ethos today is that the state not the individual is responsible for his welfare , that the erosion of private property rights and the control by the state of many areas of our lives is legitimate and welcome and that the distribution of wealth must take precedence over its creation . |
| 9 | ‘ When we say a person is responsible for what he does we mean not just that he was the agent … we also say that the act reflects ( back ) on the agent , ’ writes David Wood ( 1973 , p. 191 ) . |
| 10 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |