Example sentences of "to be responsible for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a car is unlawfully taken and then returned in a damaged state , it seems absolutely right that the person or persons responsible for taking it should be assumed to be responsible for causing the damage unless they can prove the contrary . |
| 2 | The substance , called Myodil , is now believed by many to be responsible for causing arachnoiditus . |
| 3 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 4 | The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) is to be responsible for controlling radioactive waste , air pollution , water pollution and the regulation of solid waste disposal . |
| 5 | In the upper strand , the first footprint comprises nts -340 to -381 ( footprint II ) , localized therefore outside of the fragment known from the deletion experiments to be responsible for maintaining transcriptional strength ( see Fig. 1 and sequence in Fig. 2B ) . |
| 6 | The Environment Ministry 's proposed Packaging Ordinance states that : " The causers of packaging pollution — trade and industry — are in future to be responsible for taking back , recycling , re-using and disposing of their products " . |
| 7 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 8 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd hate to be responsible for organising an event billed as ‘ our last chance to save the Earth ’ . |
| 10 | Arsonists are believed to be responsible for destroying part of a film-processing laboratory causing thirty thousand pounds damage . |
| 11 | No one seemed to be responsible for looking after it , and there was a considerable quantity of debris inside . |
| 12 | Gosstandard used to be responsible for approving ( for a price ) all technology imported for use in the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | He happily helps the farmer but also has some sympathy with the cuddly pet view , if only to the extent that he would n't want to be responsible for wiping rabbits out — as if he could ! |
| 14 | It was now painfully obvious to him that he was dealing with a very fragile mental state , and he did n't want to be responsible for setting it off balance irreparably . |
| 15 | All Departments of the University again appointed a Liaison Officer to be responsible for bringing Convocation and its events to the attention of their students and for providing information to be passed on to Convocation members , and there was some useful discussion at a tea-time meeting between Liaison Officers and committee members on 21 January 1992 . |
| 16 | The matter was considered by the Court of Appeal in Britton where a youth had left pamphlets late one evening in the porch of the house of a single member of Parliament whom he believed to be responsible for bringing coloured immigrants into Britain . |
| 17 | Mr Mellor will continue to be responsible for bringing in new laws on privacy and press intrusion if necessary . |
| 18 | After making a political volte-face he went on , without even a glimmer of embarrassment , to be responsible for bringing in the council tax . |
| 19 | Without such checks the old problem arises of who is to be responsible for monitoring and supervising the supervisors . |
| 20 | Designate yourself or a senior manager in your organisation to be responsible for seeing that the policy is applied reasonably and fairly . |
| 21 | In practice , the US Marshall Aid programme provided most of the necessary finance and the World Bank came to be responsible for assisting economic development in mainly the poorer countries . |
| 22 | To be responsible for managing an expanding team working on environmental fate studies in soil and water . |
| 23 | Taylor was one of the men who was supposed to be responsible for cleaning up Hollywood , but as the sordid details of his life came to light during the murder investigation , Will Hays , knowing he could trust no one in the movie business , placed spies everywhere . |
| 24 | Agreed to purchase one machine initially , JF to be responsible for booking it out to Garden Departments . |
| 25 | Who in our firm is going to be responsible for deciding how to make the most of the Single Market ? |
| 26 | Oh no — I would n't want to be responsible for landing someone else in this mess . ’ |
| 27 | In Hinduism there is a burden placed on women to be responsible for protecting the community from their potential ‘ pollution ’ . |
| 28 | The government was to be responsible for executing decisions of the conference during a transition to multiparty democracy . |
| 29 | One person has to be responsible for co-ordinating all these different elements and the need for an integrated approach , with one person carrying the overview , was brought home sharply to me during a Youth Conference in Eastbourne in 1983 . |
| 30 | Monitoring stations will test pollution levels and an international committee based in Magdeburg , in eastern Germany , is to be responsible for directing the cleaning operation |