Example sentences of "[adv] is responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overfishing alone is responsible for the sorry state of the pelagic fish populations . |
| 2 | Japan alone is responsible for about 100,000 dolphin deaths a year . |
| 3 | Teachers ' centre wardens ( usually themselves experienced teachers anxious to develop active supportive programmes ) keep in close touch with teachers and schools as well as with local advisers and " the office " , and centre management is frequently run on quasi-democratic lines with a significant element of teacher-participation ( the local authority none the less is responsible for finance ) . |
| 4 | Each now is responsible for over thirty four thousand workers . |
| 5 | Whilst Reg Roman here is responsible for the day-to-day running of our investigation , he reports to me . |
| 6 | Someone somewhere is responsible for the situation we are in . ’ |
| 7 | The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes . |
| 8 | Significantly Fëanor learns not from Manwë , nor Ulmo , but from Aulé , the smith of the Valar and the most similar of them to Melkor ; Aulé too is responsible for the despatch of Saruman to Middle-earth , see UT , p. 393 ; Aulë is the patron of all craftsmen , including ‘ those that make not , but seek only for the understanding of what is ’ — the philologists , one might say , but also the scopas , the ‘ makars ’ , the fabbri , the poets . |
| 9 | I , I , I would check who actually is responsible for that |
| 10 | Each organiser therefore is responsible for the production of a local development plan , which sets out the strategy for meeting the targets . |