Example sentences of "[is] responsible for [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 2 | At present the city council is responsible for destroying clinical waste from hospitals , but under the new scheme the service would pass to the private sector . |
| 3 | Every nurse in the ward is responsible for promoting good nursing care . |
| 4 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 5 | An area committee of local councillors is responsible for overseeing these local services . |
| 6 | Gloucestershire County Council , which is responsible for registaring nursing homes in the county , is proposing to revoke the Heighton 's certificate of registration . |
| 7 | The Head of Department in consultation with the Dean is responsible for recommending appropriate action in cases of suspected cheating or plagiarism by students . |
| 8 | Any employee who has charge of Company property is responsible for taking all reasonable precautions in making sure that it is not lost , stolen or damaged . |
| 9 | Mr Brodie has been appointed by Mr William Ross , QC , Secretary of State for Scotland , who is responsible for appointing one member to the Council . |
| 10 | Our results demonstrate that the DNA promoter fragment comprising footprint I and region III is responsible for establishing transcriptional strength ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 11 | Yet Durkheim himself is responsible for confusing this issue , as well as introducing the suspect assertion of inevitability ( see Roshier , 1977 , pp. 310–12 ) . |
| 12 | The family 's eldest son , Xiang , who typeset the book , is responsible for producing many environmental publications for Vietnam . |
| 13 | Under the direction of a senior executive , the M&D facility is responsible for maintaining appropriate stock levels of the raw materials with which to manufacture records , cassettes and CDs , including labels and inlay cards . |
| 14 | The changes are intended to reflect the Citizen 's Charter approach that Government is responsible for defining those standards which the public expects , with managers responsible for delivering them . |
| 15 | As fuel and by-products manager , she is responsible for buying all the fuel the electricity giant uses — coal , oil , gas or even slurry — and selling the by-products of electricity , such as ash . |
| 16 | At the same Lime local government is responsible for implementing central government policy and hence we may find mutual dependency between organisations . |
| 17 | These are linked to the first new component of the family , the OpenServer Directory Exchange Server , DXS , which provides a centralised repository of all user addresses on the network , and is responsible for propagating this information to the other electronic mail systems . |
| 18 | The Bank is responsible for issuing new government debt and arranging for its redemption . |
| 19 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 20 | The LEA is responsible for making sure that health and safety regulations are observed in county and controlled schools . |
| 21 | Or even if you have to clarify the title by saying who is responsible for making sure that materials that you use arrive at the place that they 're supposed to arrive at the time . |
| 22 | The local authority is responsible for making all the entries on its Register . |
| 23 | The author is responsible for obtaining any clearances ( eg for copyright permission , consent of those involved in the study ) . |
| 24 | The author is responsible for obtaining any clearances ( eg for copyright permission , consent of those involved in the study ) . |
| 25 | The effect of eradication of H pylori on basal gastrin and acid secretion is more consistent with the idea that circulating gastrin is responsible for driving basal acid secretion in patients with duodenal ulcer , because the fall in basal gastrin concentration on eradication was accompanied by a proportional fall in basal acid secretion . |
| 26 | The aim of the laser is to re-shape the cornea which is responsible for bending light rays onto the eys 's retina . |
| 27 | The aim of the laser is to re-shape the cornea which is responsible for bending light rays onto the eys 's retina . |
| 28 | This must of necessity put you in a very weak defensive position and I would maintain that this is responsible for losing more bouts than any other factor . |
| 29 | John Cunningham , Chief Engineer , is responsible for co-ordinating these developments . |
| 30 | Gloucestershire County Council , which is responsible for registering private nursing homes , has issued a notice proposing to revoke the home 's certificate of registration . |