Example sentences of "responsible for [verb] " in BNC.

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31 Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks .
32 Most large corporations have dedicated staff responsible for organizing and controlling business travel and expenditure and most major travel companies have departments which deal exclusively with the business traveller .
33 Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court .
34 Blakeney , who had been general manager of the Egyptian State Railway from 1919 to 1923 , was responsible for organizing the tight-knit military discipline of the organization and for turning the BF into a limited company , the anglicized British Fascists Ltd , in 1924 .
35 A characteristic archeus — a kind of overseer — was postulated in each organ , responsible for organizing its chemical and metabolic activity .
36 However , the research assistant responsible for organizing fieldwork in the two outer-city community studies ( John Harris ) is an Ulsterman , and therefore , although in no sense associated with any of Ulster 's political pressure groups , was very conscious that there were parts of the city which he could not visit freely and confidently .
37 The case manager or care manager should be responsible for organizing a total care plan for each individual , spanning both ‘ ordinary ’ needs and ‘ special ’ needs , and for integrating the input of the NHS , local authority and voluntary organizations .
38 She was secretary to Lady Margaret Hall from 1880 to 1914 and , as lady secretary to the AEW ( 1883–94 ) , was responsible for organizing tuition for women students and for supervising those not attached to a hall , who lived at home or with ‘ hostesses ’ in the city .
39 There appeared to be a mismatch between the expectations of the non-arts staff responsible for organizing arts projects in LEAs and courses in colleges , and the arts staff responsible for their delivery .
40 On Sept. 1 , 1989 , Kadhafi issued a decree setting up the General Committee for Defence , which would be responsible for organizing " the armed people " and would replace the Armed Forces General Command .
41 Two days earlier , Democratic Platform had been one of the groups responsible for organizing a demonstration by around 50,000 people in Moscow 's Manezh Square in protest at the CPSU .
42 These are organized usually on a multiconstituency basis and are responsible for organizing and choosing candidates for constituencies within their areas .
43 Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter .
44 The Military Household was responsible for overseeing the personal safety of the sovereigns , which at the beginning was entrusted to the Guides , a cavalry regiment rigged out in green and gold , numbering 1,000 , whose Colonel was Prince Joachim Murat .
45 Briefing sessions should provide advice on : who is responsible for overseeing the removal — the employer or the employee ; choosing a contractor ; packing goods ; storage facilities on arrival ; and the time-scale of the removal process .
46 She will be responsible for overseeing strategic and operational plans .
47 Compact Directors are responsible for overseeing a programme which involves all the participating schools and employers .
48 An area committee of local councillors is responsible for overseeing these local services .
49 A new post of Minister of Ownership Transformations , responsible for overseeing privatization , went to Waldemar Kuczynski of Solidarity , who was hitherto Mazowiecki 's chief personal adviser .
50 The largest of these — some $6,800 million — came from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , which insured deposits with savings institutions , and the Resolution Trust Corporation ( RTC ) , responsible for overseeing the thrift bailout .
51 There was speculation as to Abdesselam 's future policy towards the repayment of Algeria 's foreign debt and towards foreign companies participating in the extraction of oil and gas reserves ; Abdesselam had been a director of Sonatrach , the state oil company , and then minister responsible for overseeing the nationalization of the oil industry in 1971 .
52 Also on the Bank 's agenda are the setting up of companies to manufacture clean-up equipment and loans to strengthen existing environmental agencies responsible for overseeing environmental matters .
53 The lack of resources allocated by the government — one man is responsible for overseeing timber operations across the country — has meant that it is unable to enforce the regulations .
54 Gloucestershire Social Services department , which will be responsible for overseeing the private school , say if new pupils are enrolled the school will be subject to detailed inspections regarding the welfare of the children .
55 The British consul-general in Seoul thought that Soviet suspicion of the anti-trusteeship groups was understandable enough and that both sides in the Joint Commission were jockeying to gain the best tactical place before the breakdown of talks ; neither wished to appear responsible for precipitating the collapse .
56 This view is close to , and was influenced by , Durkheim 's idea of the state as ‘ a special organ responsible for elaborating certain representations which are valid for the collectivity ’ and are ‘ distinguished from other collective representations by their higher degree of consciousness and reflection ’ .
57 In addition the President would appoint and head a Presidential Council responsible for elaborating " measures to implement the main directions of the USSR 's domestic and foreign policy and to ensure the country 's security " .
58 Recognising the success of this idea the FAA , which is of course the authority responsible for enforcing aviation regulations and imposing penalties in the USA , took the bold step of seeking out a suitable agency , totally separate from the FAA , that was technically competent to administer an anonymous type of incident-reporting system .
59 We presently enjoy good professional working relationships with the various authorities and bodies responsible for enforcing the legislation and aim to maintain and where possible improve these .
60 This Department is responsible for enforcing Consumer Protection legislation relevant to Metrology ( Weights and Measures ) ; Trade Descriptions ; Safety and Consumer Credit .
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