Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] were responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1983 report had identified the crucial issue for North Shields as the need for the development of an adequate marketing facility in the port to attract larger visiting vessels which were responsible for 54% , of landings in 1982 . |
| 2 | The Directive was concerned with relations between competent authorities which were responsible for protecting the interests of investors and companies . |
| 3 | Instead of leaving economic decisions to the free hand of the marketplace , economic decisions were made by highly centralised states which were responsible for resource allocation and the planning of economic activities . |
| 4 | Although the petitioners realised that it was government policies which were responsible for the impoverishment of the masses , the movement did not oppose government , it appealed to it for improvements . |
| 5 | The scientists and technicians who were responsible for running the vessel were all ranking members of the Imperial Survey Service ; but that did not mean that they had the slightest notion about running either a tight or a tidy ship . |
| 6 | The Grand Almoner was the Archbishop of Paris , who was assisted by a vicar-general and five chaplains who were responsible for the services in the chapels of the Imperial residences . |
| 7 | Moreover , it had become clear from the opinion polls that the unpopularity of the new tax was being laid at the door of the government which had introduced it , rather than the local authorities who were responsible for levying and collecting it . |
| 8 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 9 | Erm the ta the the weave is based on the discovery of a seal , an seal , were the royal officials who were responsible for the quality of exported cloth . |
| 10 | This was a fluctuating group of four or five individuals who were responsible for the literary output of the organization . |
| 11 | Whilst in no way related , the stories of the pea and the pine serve to illustrate the many facets of plant introduction through the ages , reminding us of those thoughtful , artistic , practical and often intrepid individuals who were responsible for the plants which grace our parks and gardens today . |
| 12 | One of the major contracts we were responsible for during that time was the construction of the Wemmershoek Dam for Cape Town City Council . |
| 13 | For instance in one area recently there has been a series of protests and demonstrations regarding poor and inadequate housing conditions , the majority of the members of the committees which were responsible for organising the protests are members of the IRA . |
| 14 | Moreover , it was these official publications which were responsible for employing the very few Africans who gained journalistic and editorial experience . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , large areas of the Palace remained very ill-lit ; servants who were responsible for the maintenance of the oil lamps , the only means of lighting the corridors and the small dark private staircases , were obliged to circulate day and night . |
| 16 | MANDARINS are the Treasury civil servants who were responsible for insisting that Britain stayed in the ERM and who , it is said , traditionally get things wrong . |
| 17 | This project aims to identify the local leaders who were responsible for chapels , schoolrooms and manses in a period of nonconformist growth , to study their place in the religious bodies they served and in the communities where they lived . |
| 18 | Duncan was a member of the 14th INT , a small and select group of SAS members who were responsible for intelligence . |
| 19 | Committee members who were responsible for setting Glenand up to promote jobs were extremely reluctant to make people redundant . |
| 20 | To those ladies who were responsible for dealing with this charitable effort , she would offer as much as five shillings for a bundle of what appeared to them as less attractive articles , especially if they were food-stained , as some old gentlemen 's coats often were . |
| 21 | Polluters who were responsible for an oil spillage in the River Tees which closed a treatment works could be prosecuted . |
| 22 | The next diplomatic process concerned the men who were responsible for the girls . |
| 23 | It is clear from this that it was social and not technical factors which were responsible for the emergence of factory production . |
| 24 | Some women managed to keep their condition secret and in the late nineteenth century it was probably these women who were responsible for many of the infanticide cases . |
| 25 | At the same time , my own researches into the origins of agriculture suggest that the women who were responsible for the discovery and early development of cultivation were motivated by drives of a masculine , aggressive kind and were unlikely to tolerate lengthy breast-feeding and the demands of selfless child-care but also , like their modern equivalents , tended to develop strong narcissistic identifications with their male children ( the masculine woman 's substitute penis ) . |