Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 2 | Second , the activities of Maule Ramsay and the two secret societies he was connected with , the Right Club and NL , and his links with Mosley in 1939 — 40 , were to be responsible for the internment of many fascists without trial in the Second World War , and in part the mutual recriminations between Mosleyites and racial nationalists which fragmented the revival of the tradition after 1945 . |
| 3 | In the provinces , distress committees were to be responsible for both the registration of applicants and the provision of work . |
| 4 | They , together with the Treasury , were to be responsible for presenting an ‘ up-to-date ’ costing of existing programmes . |
| 5 | The National Grid was to be responsible for ensuring that sufficient power was provided by the generating companies to the distribution companies at all times . |
| 6 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |
| 7 | The government was to be responsible for executing decisions of the conference during a transition to multiparty democracy . |
| 8 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 9 | As for Odovacer , he has sometimes been identified with the warleader who was to be responsible for the deposition of the last emperor , Romulus Augustulus , in 476 . |