Example sentences of "was responsible for [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she realized who was responsible for her husband 's death ? |
| 2 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 3 | Tied in with the third exhibition of her work by London dealer David Gill who was responsible for her renaissance . |
| 4 | After the wine for the day had been chosen by the master of the house , the butler was responsible for its presentation at table . |
| 5 | " De-communization " legislation under discussion in early March was aimed , according to Sasho Stoyanov , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) National Assembly member who was responsible for its drafting , " mainly against the former nomenklatura and State Security agents " . |
| 6 | And the House of Lords reversed the Court of Appeal and decided that the union was responsible for its shop stewards . |
| 7 | The zoologist was upset because she felt that the small animal had suffered from the journey in the box and she was responsible for its death . |
| 8 | At Barrow-in-Furness the site of the new town was owned by the dukes of Devonshire , one of whom was responsible for its planning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | If they became tied agents they were authorised to do business through the life office which took them on ; the life office , in turn , was responsible for their conduct . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Apparently the severe winter of 1947 was responsible for their destruction . |
| 13 | What was responsible for their emergence ? |
| 14 | He was the one who was responsible for your brother 's death , as everyone in the business knew ! ’ |
| 15 | Do n't you understand he was responsible for your brother 's death ? ’ |
| 16 | If I tell her it was I who was responsible for my wife 's death , she 'll turn away from me in horror and disgust . |
| 17 | He was taken to various locations , until finally the police began interrogating him as if he was responsible for his friend 's disappearance . |
| 18 | She guessed that the earthquake was responsible for his presence , since flights in and out of Taipei were functioning normally again already , but whatever concern had brought him was unlikely to be personal . |
| 19 | I was n't so sure about that : did n't know to what extent she was responsible for his behaviour . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you seriously saying it proves his sister was responsible for his work ? ’ |
| 21 | Or did he go to his death in the anguished conviction that he was responsible for his master 's ? |
| 22 | A soldier of mixed Visigothic and Suevic extraction , he came to power under Avitus , was responsible for his fall , and was effectively involved in the appointment of all the western emperors to hold office between 457 and his own death in 472 . |
| 23 | This pessimism was responsible for his decision to discontinue the publication of the Criterion in January 1939 . |
| 24 | Ironically , it might have been this shadow hanging over him which was responsible for his change in fortunes on the course . |
| 25 | It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this . |
| 26 | It made things worse for Charles that he was responsible for his men 's transfer with him to this wilderness . |
| 27 | But some of the other men supported the Tibetan : within his own home Kalchu was responsible for his dog 's behaviour . |
| 28 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |