Example sentences of "he was [adv] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was jointly responsible for writing at least one tune which became a hit and made a name for the other writer . |
| 2 | He was jointly responsible for the original design work on the great suspension bridges across the estuaries of the Severn , Forth , and Humber , and later developed and patented the revolutionary aerofoil-shaped box-girder deck of the final Severn bridge design . |
| 3 | Much-respected in the racing world , Smiles felt that the role of his office was ‘ Eighty per cent preventative ’ and he was largely responsible for the introduction of the Betting Intelligence Officers squad in September 1984 . |
| 4 | He was largely responsible for organising the supply of machinery and equipment to be fitted in the bare hulls to be built in the yards of British Columbia — an industry which proved to be of vital importance during the Second World War . |
| 5 | In the 1914–1918 War , he was largely responsible for reactivating the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , and was appointed Commander of the Clyde Division , rising to Commodore in 1921 before retiring in 1927 . |
| 6 | The epic ends with his death in his own city , which he was largely responsible for building . |
| 7 | Together with a French master mason , Alan Maynard , he was largely responsible for remodelling the exterior of the house , and for much internal detail ; in both cases the design , as well as the execution , was probably due to them . |
| 8 | As the senior resident British official on the coast he was largely responsible for the British occupation of Lagos in 1851 and the deposition of King Pepple of Bonny in 1854 . |
| 9 | He was largely responsible for compiling the catalogue of the King 's Library , which was published in five volumes between 1820 and 1829 as Bibliothecae Regiae Catalogus . |
| 10 | He was largely responsible for its recognition in the West : by his pioneering studies in ancient Indian art , such as Indian Sculpture and Painting ( 1908 ) and The Ideals of Indian Art ( 1911 ) ; by encouraging the fledgling Bengal School with sustained writings on its behalf ; and finally by helping to found the India Society with ( Sir ) William Rothenstein [ q.v. ] , for many years the bastion of Indian culture in Europe . |
| 11 | Hatty , Finance Minister in Whitehead 's liberal Cabinet , London-born , is a thoughtful man who has given outstanding service ; he was largely responsible for starting Marimba Township , where Africans working in Salisbury were enabled to build and own their own houses . |
| 12 | He was ultimately responsible for the emptying of the city , the forced labour in the countryside , the persecution of anyone judged to have been tainted by foreign influences , and the bloody purges of Khmer Rouge cadres suspected of being ‘ Vietnamese traitors ’ . |
| 13 | He was probably responsible for the corrective Gorbachev gave in January last year to his own speech on the 70th anniversary of the revolution in 1987 . |
| 14 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 15 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 16 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 17 | In our view he was primarily responsible for the fabrication and for what has taken place since . |
| 18 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 19 | Multhrop looked at him in panic , then remembered he was n't responsible for the food . |
| 20 | When Cain asked , ‘ Am I my brother 's keeper ? ’ he was trying to say that he was not responsible for his brother . |
| 21 | as if he was not responsible for his actions . |
| 22 | He was not responsible for G division or the metropolitan area , so this had nothing to do with him . |
| 23 | He was not responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries , which was handled by Thomas Cromwell , though he heartily approved of this and hoped that the revenues would be used for education , and in particular for education of the new clergy . |
| 24 | In May 1323 John XXII told Fulk Lestrange , Edward II 's seneschal of Aquitaine , to make peace with Gaston , as he was not responsible for the excesses of his own officers and subjects , who had been provoked and encouraged by his mother . |
| 25 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |
| 26 | He added that he was not responsible for the SAC , which is a branch of the UK body . |
| 27 | He rejects charges that he was partly responsible for the ‘ casino atmosphere ’ that gripped US corporate life in the early 1980s . |
| 28 | Through his instruction he was partly responsible for the 1649 Act Concerning Religion which was the earliest legislation in the English-speaking world that explicitly guaranteed toleration to all Christians . |
| 29 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 30 | However , the King always believed he was partly responsible for his father 's death . |