Example sentences of "[noun pl] be responsible for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a nation the Jews are responsible for his death , but it was Pontius Pilate who delivered him to be crucified , who announced the verdict , who pronounced the sentence . |
| 2 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |
| 3 | The control structure of any organization consists , by and large , of a definition of the relationships between controllability and responsibility , or more precisely a specification of which managers are responsible for which resources in the organization . |
| 4 | Thirdly , there needs to be a reasonably clear understanding of which agencies are responsible for what activities , or else the information on which comparison is based will be highly confusing . |
| 5 | As The Rank Organisation has a fairly flat management structure , Rank Restaurants executives are responsible for their own policy and strategy . |
| 6 | Although there is a claim that these vats were introduced by Charles Tennant Dunlop and Heinrich Buff of Giessen , it is generally accepted that Shanks was responsible for their development . |
| 7 | I could be doing eight or nine subjects so generally the girls are responsible for their education . |
| 8 | or : No , the Liberals were responsible for their own decline . |
| 9 | Because of this , Buadilio Aguilar 's family believe that the security forces were responsible for his disappearance . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the kidnappers insisted , however , that Ghani had been released alive and that the Indian security forces were responsible for his death . |
| 11 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 12 | Believing that the merchants were responsible for his sequestration in 1644 , following the interception of a letter of his to Charles I , Crowe retaliated in 1646 by bribing the grand vizier to arrest all the company 's factory at Constantinople and some of its merchants at Smyrna . |
| 13 | The Stirlingshire farmer who claims that toxic emissions were responsible for him having to destroy his entire dairy herd was told in court today that he and his wife were to blame . |
| 14 | It would deny that men are responsible for their actions , make evil into a positive force . |
| 15 | A story was circulating around school that Frankie 's mother had been very ill and one of his aunts was responsible for him having nits in his head and a dirty body , torn pumps , bitten nails and no dinner money . |
| 16 | During the next few days , until the patient can take over some aspects of care himself , nurses are responsible for his care and in particular for his safety . |
| 17 | — Students are responsible for their own progress and the achievement and monitoring of their goals . |
| 18 | Two distinct mechanisms are responsible for their development into significant morphological features . |
| 19 | Production workgroups are responsible for their own quality control , reduced production faults results in declining rectification time and higher output ( Grikitis , 1985 ) . |