Example sentences of "[adv] been responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 2 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 3 | It was felt that Manson and his Family had not only been responsible for the death of seven people , but also for the death of innocence , and suddenly hippies were n't cute or funny any more . |
| 4 | The links predated the Francoist regime ; the army had long been responsible for the training of footplate , traffic and other staff who entered RENFE through military service ( as they continued to do after the restoration of democracy ) . |
| 5 | The Yard has always been responsible for the movement of vehicles and materials within the Works area . |
| 6 | The executive has always been responsible for , and ultimately in control of , both initiation and implementation . |
| 7 | Does the Foreign Secretary agree that an international conference as proposed simply would not succeed unless Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities admit that they have both been responsible for atrocities and extremism ? |
| 8 | The LTTE has also been responsible for massacres , both of Sinhalese and Moslem civilians , since June 1990 and against rival Tamil political groups who , in some cases , have now aligned themselves with the government 's forces . |
| 9 | The US , where Tie Rack now has 41 shops , has also been responsible for the first half loss . |
| 10 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 11 | As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme . |
| 12 | The bed had been turned down , however , and he assumed the maid who had done that had also been responsible for leaving the room unsecured . |
| 13 | The subsequent decline in unemployment has also been responsible for the fall in the share of transfer payments since 1984 . |
| 14 | The same changes in society have also been responsible for the parallel growth in the importance of experts acting as expert witnesses . |
| 15 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 16 | Pat served for six years on the Executive Committee ; she has also been responsible for arranging the flowers at many important functions . |
| 17 | This technique has probably been responsible for scoring more points than any other in the entire history of karate competition . |
| 18 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 19 | Human interference has often been responsible for such introductions . |
| 20 | The military authorities in Baku moved against the Azerbaijan Popular Front on Jan. 24 , arresting 43 leading members and raiding the offices of the National Defence Council , a radical group allied to the Front which had allegedly been responsible for co-ordinating arms supplies to Azerbaijani militants . |