Example sentences of "[verb] been responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes without saying that the definition has been responsible for a major literature . |
| 2 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 3 | As head of Radio 2 's music department for the last four years , Ms Line has been responsible for the blend of easy listening that makes up 80 per cent of its 24-hours-a-day output , along with presenters such as Derek Jameson and Jimmy Young . |
| 4 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 5 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 6 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 7 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |
| 8 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 9 | At the University of Sheffield , Wood has been responsible for the design and development of a number of simulations of online services : FOSSILS , a simulation of DIALOG , BLAISERS a simulation of BLAISE MARC , MUTE-MEDLINE User Training Exercise and SSDC a simulation of SDC . |
| 10 | The county council has been responsible for appointing contractors to carry out this repair work . |
| 11 | Whatever you know , think , understand or dream about BMW , one man above all others has been responsible for putting those three initials into your consciousness . |
| 12 | It was opened in 1985 by its owners , Tim and Kit Kemp , and it is Kit who has been responsible for the interior decor throughout . |
| 13 | This has been responsible for wiping out entire stocks of fish . |
| 14 | Britain has been responsible for 52 per cent of all inventions worldwide in the past 30 years , according to a survey conducted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry . |
| 15 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 16 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 17 | Since 1983 large areas of Peru have been progressively designated emergency zones and placed under military control as part of counter-insurgency operations against the armed opposition groups , principally Sendero Luminoso which has been responsible for widespread atrocities . |
| 18 | Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev is probably one of the most well-known of all Soviet aircraft designers and his OKB has been responsible for a wide variety of aircraft types . |
| 19 | The definitional question , of what natural selection is , can be answered by specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its occurrence , namely hereditary variation that is causally relevant to reproductive success thanks to organism-environment interactions ; it can , then , be answered without begging in advance of empirical inquiry all those further questions as to whether these conditions are ever met : whether , that is , any natural selection exists ; and , if so , how it is distributed , what it can do now and what it has been responsible for in the past . |
| 20 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |
| 21 | The Harrow , Middlesex-based firm has been responsible for designing , re-engineering , coding and implementing IBM 's Customer Information Control System , CICS , on top of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment and Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing services to run on RS/6000s under AIX Version 3.2 . |
| 22 | WACC has been responsible for the conceptualisation of training programmes in ‘ alternative journalism ’ and has given the impetus for the implementation of a series of practical workshops . |
| 23 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 24 | Each country has been responsible for arranging its own section within the theme of the ‘ production of cultural difference ’ ( a declared blow against Euro-centrism ) while a general catalogue , coordinated by the director of the Third Biennial , Vasif Kortun , will be published in Turkey . |
| 25 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 26 | Smith , N. Steen , R. Bennet and S. Crowe , has been responsible for the development on the right side of Walla Crag , producing a girdle traverse — Magical Mystery Tour , E4 6a — and a dozen other routes from E2 to E5 . |
| 27 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 28 | A more significant change has been the separation of sales of ITV1 and Channel 4 : Channel 4 has been responsible for its own sales from January 1993 , and this has introduced the first genuinely competitive element into national commercial TV . |
| 29 | Fothergill , Gudgin , Kitson and Monk ( 1986 ) argue that one locational characteristic above all has been responsible for the relative decline of cities , and that is the problem of availability of land . |
| 30 | They believe that personal ‘ gaffer-to-man ’ contact has been responsible for removing much of the industrial conflict which they regard as plaguing the remainder of British industry . |