Example sentences of "[coord] be responsible [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loving parent may also be controlling , that is , unwilling to allow the teenager to make decisions or be responsible in any way . |
| 2 | Schools are also composed of individuals ( children and teachers ) and are responsible to other individuals ( parents ) within the framework of a community . |
| 3 | Even in areas where the use of nylon set-nets and ‘ rolling hooks ’ are officially prohibited , these practices are still in use and are responsible for many dolphin deaths each year . |
| 4 | I must admit I really enjoyed working with him , and we did tracks like ‘ The Laughing Gnome ’ and I have to say , I am one of the gnomes on that record and am responsible for some of the terrible jokes on it as well . |
| 5 | The Local Education Authority would continue to provide some central support and advisory services and be responsible for corporate matters concerning further education , but in most other respects , functional control would be passed to the individual establishments . |
| 6 | In 1978 , the ‘ public corporations ’ accounted for 20 per cent of GDP , employed 2.1 million people , or 8 per cent of the total working population , and were responsible for 16 per cent of gross domestic fixed capital formation ( GDFCF ) ( Central Statistical Office 1987 ) . |
| 7 | I looked coldly into his eyes and said very slowly : ‘ You are the bastard who denounced my father and were responsible for all of us being taken to Tabiano . |
| 8 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |
| 9 | It elects from among its own members a reorganized bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet , which meets twice a year for three- or four-month sessions and is responsible for all legislative and administrative matters [ see pp. 36659-60 ] . |
| 10 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 11 | It is now recognized that the trachoma agent is very closely related to the organism that causes non-specific urethritis and is responsible for 50 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies and for a proportion of cases of salpingitis in women . |
| 12 | Furthermore , The German Ideology was a collaborative work with Engels who , as we shall see , retained more interest in the concept of ideology and is responsible for some of the features traditionally associated with it . |
| 13 | NWW is basically graphic designer Stephen Stapleton , who lives in Ireland and is responsible for several productions ( The Legendary Pink Dots , for example ) and lots of art work . |
| 14 | Bibby joined the council immediately after the child care crisis of the mid-80s and was responsible for various changes essential to the organisation , introducing new child care services and revising structures . |
| 15 | Watt gave two-thirds of his patent rights to Boulton and was responsible for all design work . |
| 16 | Woods worked directly under Michael Balcon when he was appointed head of production in 1947 and was responsible for employing Ardizzone , Bawden , Barnett Freedman , Peake , Minton , Piper , Searle and others , to produce posters and other advertising material . |
| 17 | He was able to ensure that the strong anti-natalist movement penetrated the highest offices of state and was responsible for enormous sums being spent in US foreign aid thereafter ( Simon 1981 ; Warwick 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Oesophagostomum infections in the pig are less often associated with clinical disease , but are responsible for poor productivity . |