Example sentences of "[be] responsible for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , therefore , important to try to establish the starting point relevant to the early 1990s in order to convince those that are responsible for overall planning and funding that there is an increasing need to train skilled personnel in all the health professions but particularly in medicine . |
| 2 | Against Mannoni 's assertion to the contrary , Fanon insists that ‘ European civilization and its best representatives are responsible for colonial racism ’ ( p. 90 , my italics ) . |
| 3 | Yet it is these autonomous , creative , challenge-driven people who are responsible for new businesses , new techniques , new insights , new products , new buildings , new research projects and new forms of art . |
| 4 | It is an absurdity to say that we are responsible for bogus applicants . |
| 5 | Under the Constitution as revised in 1972 there is a Legislative Assembly with 12 elected and three official members , while the Governor and Executive Council ( comprising three official members and four elected by and from the Legislative Assembly ) are responsible for internal administration . |
| 6 | Oesophagostomum infections in the pig are less often associated with clinical disease , but are responsible for poor productivity . |
| 7 | The other thing that we need to say is that far from creating efficiencies within the N H S , the bureaucracy attached to the changes when people are responsible for managing contracts , dealing with contracts , dealing with specifications for contracts . |
| 8 | A number of actuaries are responsible for individual company pension schemes with funds amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds . |
| 9 | A fairly narrow range of people are responsible for key decisions ; some of these attain such positions through democratic representational procedures , but they co-opt others to their ranks . |
| 10 | These processes , too , are subject to political and economic analyses and are often intimately bound up with land-users who are responsible for accelerated soil erosion . |
| 11 | It has been shown that many additives are responsible for behavioural problems among young people , such as irritability , clumsiness , excitability and aggressiveness . |
| 12 | Although the details of their theory are now seen to be clearly wrong , their insight , that different parts of the brain are responsible for different processes , has stood the test of time and research and informs much of our current understanding of the brain . |
| 13 | Both forest management and afforestation are responsible for direct and indirect environmental change . |
| 14 | Head teachers are responsible for ensuing that teachers do teach and carry out assessments as required … . |
| 15 | However , in some tropical and subtropical areas , some species are responsible for severe enteritis in calves . |
| 16 | The trichostrongyloids , including Dictyocaulus , are responsible for considerable mortality and widespread morbidity , especially in ruminants . |
| 17 | Male rat urine affects the behaviour and sexual response of female rats , leading to the proposal that rodent urinary proteins are responsible for binding pheromones and their subsequent release from drying urine . |
| 18 | In addition , it is important to know which of the altered plasma factors in the diabetic state are responsible for enhanced platelet function . |
| 19 | ‘ In a free democratic society it is almost too obvious to need stating that those who hold office in government and who are responsible for public administration must always be open to criticism . |
| 20 | ‘ In a free democratic society it is almost too obvious to need stating that those who hold office in government and who are responsible for public administration must always be open to criticism . |
| 21 | ‘ In a free democratic society it is almost too obvious to need stating that those who hold office in government and who are responsible for public administration must always be open to criticism . |
| 22 | The family Ancylostomidae , whose members are commonly called hookworms because of the characteristic hook posture of their anterior ends , are responsible for widespread morbidity and mortality in animals primarily due to their blood-sucking activities in the intestine . |
| 23 | As a local authority , we are responsible for statutory services and it is important that we have advice on the legal implications of our activities . ’ |
| 24 | Several factors are responsible for recurrent exposure of the distal oesophagus to gastric contents and the subsequent development of reflux oesophagitis . |
| 25 | Dark Age Boiotian emigrants to Anatolia are responsible for Boiotian-type place-names like Erythrai and Mykale in Asia Minor ( though the red , erythros , soil of Boiotian Erythrai and the red stone of the Ionian city make the name physically appropriate for both ) . |
| 26 | Longterm results of biliary stenting , however , have been disappointing because stent clogging or migration are responsible for significant morbidity . |
| 27 | Stuntman David Watson , who with partner Joe Wadham had been responsible for spectacular scenes in films such as Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines , was supposed to do this hair-raising sequence , but Crawford insisted on doing it himself . |
| 28 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 29 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 30 | The breakthrough came in 1980 , when we received a copy of a letter to Michael Heseltine from a former Labour minister who had been responsible for historic buildings under the previous government . |