Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [be] responsible [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental chemicals and foods are said to be responsible for an unlimited variety of symptoms which occur in the absence of physical findings or abnormal laboratory results . |
| 2 | Changes in the gall bladder , such as the increased absorption of water and the hypersecretion of mucous glycoprotein have also been shown to be responsible for cholesterol gall stone formation . |
| 3 | Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU . |
| 4 | To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following : |
| 5 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 6 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In organizations and government departments who regularly advertise , someone will be appointed to be responsible for the advertising . |
| 9 | While people may be held to be responsible for an action they may not always be asked to account for it . |
| 10 | The introduction of all-seater stadiums along with the new football offences act which makes it illegal to run onto the pitch are believed to be responsible for the reduction in violence . |
| 11 | These three reactive oxygen species are believed to be responsible for tissue injury . |
| 12 | Industrial emissions from Europe , Asia and North America are believed to be responsible for the phenomenon . |
| 13 | Arsonists are believed to be responsible for destroying part of a film-processing laboratory causing thirty thousand pounds damage . |
| 14 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 15 | For example , the Variscan orogenic cycles started in the Paleozoic era were said to be responsible for the mountain chains of North America , Europe and Africa . |
| 16 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 17 | Tamil separatists belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) were said to be responsible for the massacre on Oct. 15 of more than 140 people , mostly Moslems , in pre-dawn raids on three villages in the northern district of Polunnaruwa . |
| 18 | Modern farming methods , particularly in arable crop fields , were thought to be responsible for the declines . |
| 19 | Toxic chemicals dumped in the unlined landfill site were believed to be responsible for leukaemia and birth defects among children of families living nearby . |
| 20 | The industry is alleged to be responsible for the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) , through the practice of feeding farm stock with recycled remains of other farm animals and poultry . |
| 21 | A HOODED man who raped a 19-year-old student is thought to be responsible for at least six other sex attacks over the past two years . |
| 22 | Alcohol is thought to be responsible for 40,000 premature deaths a year , as well as 60pc of suicide attempts , 50pc of murders , 54pc of fires and 30pc of domestic accidents . |
| 23 | Those with near-normal left ventricular function and advanced obstructive coronary artery disease in whom reversible ischaemia is believed to be responsible for cardiac arrest can be treated with revascularisation alone . |
| 24 | The perpetrators are held to be responsible for their actions and there is an emphasis on retribution , not only against the murderer or murderers , but also against the social workers who , it is claimed , failed the child . |
| 25 | Some of them are held to be responsible for relaxation phenomena at low temperatures while folds are of great importance in the crystallization of polymers . |
| 26 | The chief of staff was believed to be Colonel Lee Hwal , who had been educated in Japan ; he was thought to be responsible for the organisation of the North Korean air force . |
| 27 | At one time , two-pipe house drainage systems were designed to keep waste water and soil water completely separate until they entered the underground drains and to prevent ‘ drain air ’ entering the house : in Victorian times this was thought to be responsible for all manner of ills . |
| 28 | The RAF was thought to be responsible for 32 murders over 20 years , the most recent being that in April 1991 of Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand privatization agency [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 29 | Because it is also present in some beverages histamine was thought to be responsible for the acid secretory capacity of the beverages . |
| 30 | He was found to be responsible for the gross mismanagement of oil earnings , and was also implicated in a number of political assassinations . |