Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nothing that I was responsible for . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You can check with whoever you like but I was totally exonerated of any blame at the time , and I resent you and your family 's implications that I was responsible for Eddie 's death ! |
| 3 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 4 | They think they 're one and the same , and that she was responsible for the attack . |
| 5 | She could n't be expected to hang around with the press and everyone else knowing that she was responsible for last night 's false alarm . |
| 6 | Would you agree that you were responsible for the sound of the ‘ new ’ Fleetwood Mac ? |
| 7 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 8 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 9 | This shift in emphasis has taken place partly because the restrictions on the use of organo-chloride pesticides introduced in the 1960s have enabled some of the more extreme threats to wildlife preservation to recede and partly because pesticide manufacturers countered nature conservationist claims that they were responsible for the reduction in bird population by arguing that hedgerow and woodland removal could be the prime culprits . |
| 10 | If they did , they would be forced to answer parliamentary questions and they might find that they were responsible for feeding the refugee population . |
| 11 | Dissident Shia groups were also reported on Jan. 9 to have claimed that they were responsible for killing a group of senior air force officers during an attack on air force headquarters in Baghdad . |
| 12 | The prosecution admitted that Gbagbo and his coaccused had not themselves committed any crimes , but argued that they were responsible for the violence committed that day . |
| 13 | He talked of the Governor Support Unit and I 'd like to remind Councillor and his group that they were responsible for taking over a hundred posts out of the administrative section of . |
| 14 | The Royal Commission on the Police ( 1962 ) indicated that it was responsible for the physical well-being of the force . |
| 15 | The group 's leader , Hennie Muller , denied that it was responsible for beating to death a black mineworker in March , and blamed the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) . |
| 16 | Israel denied , however , that it was responsible for activities which had taken place in Khiam . |
| 17 | LORD ALDINGTON denied in the High Court yesterday that he was responsible for seeking permission from higher command to use force to repatriate unwilling Cossacks from Austria only days after General Dwight Eisenhower , Supreme Allied Commander , offered to arrange their peaceful evacuation in May 1945 . |
| 18 | Lord Aldington — formerly Brigadier Toby Low — who is suing for libel damages over allegations that he is guilty of war crimes , denied a suggestion by Richard Rampton QC , for the defence , that he was responsible for drafting the 23 May request . |
| 19 | In the meantime , I think David had come to realize that he was responsible for an enormous amount of business at RCA in the United Kingdom — something like 4% of their total gross was David Bowie products — and he was making an enormous amount of money but he did n't have anything . |
| 20 | It made things worse for Charles that he was responsible for his men 's transfer with him to this wilderness . |
| 21 | The principal charges against Latimer were that he had made improper profits out of the campaign in Brittany and that he was responsible for the loss of Bécherel and Saint-Sauveur . |
| 22 | It was said , even within the confines of the Politburo itself , that he was responsible for sending more people to their deaths in the Siberian concentration camps than any other KGB officer in living memory . |
| 23 | Or did he go to his death in the anguished conviction that he was responsible for his master 's ? |
| 24 | Only Irina knew that he was responsible for the collapse of Moscow Centre 's operation at the clinic . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , though Penda may have embarked on a programme of domination of the south-west midlands , there is no evidence that he was responsible for the formation of the Hwiccian kingdom . |
| 26 | He did n't add that he was responsible for much of the terrorist acts , and that he would ensure they continued . |
| 27 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 28 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 29 | The surviving building accounts and his own drawings make clear that he was responsible for the execution and design of this remarkable house between 1580 and 1588 . |
| 30 | ‘ She was very frightened of her cruel husband , but she suspected that he was responsible for Sir Charles ’ death . |