Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 2 | Payne , Whitson and Varga are believed to have been responsible for much of the consortium 's recent sales of its catalogue and anti-NT white paper , a source of revenue . |
| 3 | Sub-commissioner José Amedo and Inspector Michel Domi nguez had participated in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación ( GAL ) , which were said to have been responsible for the assassination of 22 ETA leaders and alleged sympathizers in Basque areas of southern France between December 1983 and July 1986 . |
| 4 | A destructive flood was an annual possibility , and the god of Heaven Anu and the storm-god Enlil , who were believed to have been responsible for the decision to destroy mankind , were invoked in the incantation passages of the legend of the Flood . |
| 5 | For example , American intelligence is believed to have been responsible for setting up Alpha 66 , the most violent and unpredictable of the Cuban , anti-C astro exile organisations . |
| 6 | Experts remain divided on the question of Dr Proctor 's state of mind during the period when he is confirmed to have been responsible for seven hundred and fifty-three homicides , but the Supreme Court has ruled him insane and irresponsible . |
| 7 | Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 . |
| 8 | Chang was alleged to have been responsible for a 1976 letter-bomb attack which had injured Taiwan 's Governor , Shieh Tung-min . |
| 9 | Kintanar , 42 , was believed to have been responsible for the NPA 's post-Marcos strategy of trying to increase the organization 's capacity to extend its guerrilla war from its traditional rural sphere . |
| 10 | The idea bears some analogy to the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community which brought these industries under an international authority to defuse the conflict of interest between Germany and France which was held to have been responsible for two world wars . |