Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] responsible " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Tasmania , however , schools have been responsible for allocating resources for some time . |
| 3 | And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year . |
| 4 | Safe as the Mark 3 coaches have been , however , their designers have been responsible for actually causing one or two accidents because straps and fixings holding underfloor equipment were inadequate and worked loose , allowing major items to fall off . |
| 5 | According to the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , the trade in rhino horn products in these countries has been responsible for deaths of some 60,000 rhinos , or 85 per cent of the total population , since 1970 . |
| 6 | We all know that what he terms his ’ meandering ’ round private Bills has been responsible for a good deal of heartache and not a little management time in British Rail spent trying to meet some of his objections . |
| 7 | Over the years has been responsible for improving the mill control systems throughout the country ; updating the simple push buttons on the walls to the present day fully computerised systems . |
| 8 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 9 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 10 | As will be seen in Chapter 6 , however , some of these isolates have been responsible for many of the revolutionary advances in scientific knowledge . |
| 11 | Conservative Governments have been responsible for all major environmental legislation . |
| 12 | Whilst scholars debate how far economic changes have been responsible for breaking up these traditional arrangements , there is evidence that the idea persists that this form of joint household is an ideal which people would put into practice if they could ( Benedict , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | Our surgical orthopaedic tradition and our professionally qualified consultants have been responsible for the design of thousands of OBAS ( single and double ) beds to specifications dictated by weight , shape and medical history of each of our customers , including doctors ' diagnosis , where known . |
| 14 | It also stated that public money had been used to fund two other black organizations , the Federal Independent Association ( FIDA ) , a conservative group strongly opposed to sanctions , and the Eagles , which anti-apartheid activists alleged was responsible for vigilante actions in the townships . |
| 15 | Traditionally , government-appointed district auditors have been responsible for examining most local authority accounts . |
| 16 | Secondly , the increase in world oil prices has been responsible , if only in part , for the increase in prices of many of the products of Western economies . |
| 17 | But although the imperial bureaucracy was growing in size , it was too small to take over all the duties for which landlords had been responsible . |
| 18 | And lastly , but by no means least , are the tsunami effects , vast tidal waves usually generated by undersea earthquakes : those tsunami have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people at a time when they struck low-lying coastal areas . ’ |
| 19 | As a result the GATT agreements have been responsible — at least in part — for the considerable growth in world trade referred to earlier . |
| 20 | The prosecution alleged that the men had been responsible of 222 acts of terrorism which it then reduced to 193 . |
| 21 | ‘ He lost his temper when he assumed the children had been responsible for the doors being open . ’ |
| 22 | The third class of sites covers those developed linear and road-junction sites where increasingly centralized tendencies had been responsible for the growth of an irregular internal street system well beyond the initial main roads . |
| 23 | An electoral alliance , the Nationalist Action for Peace ( Acción Nacionalista por la Paz ) , was unexpectedly announced on Feb 7 by Carlos Pizarro Leóngómez , leader of the left-wing guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) , and José Joaquín Matallana , a former Army general who as Director of the Department for the Administration of Security ( DAS ) in the mid-1970s had been responsible for combating the activities of the M-19 and other guerrilla groups . |
| 24 | It had been built to accommodate sixteen patients and in February of that year was occupied by twenty-one paupers , for whose maintenance the Board of Guardians had been responsible . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Perhaps part of the problem is that far too much has been expected of positivist criminology or , alternatively , positivist criminologists have been responsible for fostering too grandiose expectations . |
| 27 | From the perspective of the Soviet élite , ‘ Socialist construction ’ , centralisation and Five-Year plans have been responsible for raising a backward country to a world power . |
| 28 | Charles Lambe denied that the Tories had been responsible for raising the Sacheverell mobs , and blamed the Whigs for instilling into people the idea that " they are the original of government " . |
| 29 | The nine Regional Councils and the three Islands Councils have been responsible for water , sewerage and sewage disposal since local government reorganisation in 1975 . |