Example sentences of "has [be] largely responsible " in BNC.

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1 Spracklen , who is 52 and lives in Marlow , has been largely responsible for their revival , believing them as valid today as they were 100 years ago .
2 Although Laclotte has been largely responsible for the choice of works , he emphasises that this is a collaborative exhibition , with different parts of the catalogue by different specialists , not always in perfect agreement with one another : ‘ There is no absolute truth in matters of attribution , just opinion ’ , he says .
3 So , while the stock market boom has played a crucial part in entrenching the wealth position of those who own most , the spread of owner-occupation , coupled with the rapid rise in house prices , has been largely responsible for extending the scope of capital ownership to well over 60 per cent of the population .
4 Internal migration within Britain has been largely responsible for these trends , with the level of net immigration to the South rising from 24 000 a year in 1971/73 to 45–50 000 a year by the end of the 1970s and rising steadily since 1981 to reach 69 000 in 1985/6 ( figure 8.2 ) .
5 The last section of the book is devoted to a description of what has been achieved with the telescope and is dedicated to John Bolton , who has been largely responsible for the dish 's successful operation .
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