Example sentences of "had be responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man Bleasdale picked to head up its new Charter Train Unit was David Ward , who since 1976 had been responsible for co-ordinating main-line steam operations in conjunction with the Steam Locomotive Owners Association ( SLOA ) . |
| 2 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 3 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 4 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |
| 5 | Mr Peter Lucas , a director of Bond Corporation , named the man as Mr David Michael , who , he said , had been responsible for top-level corporation security until his dismissal last October . |
| 6 | Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks . |
| 7 | The bulletins were written by Vincent Hartnett , who had been responsible for Red Channels , and AWARE was backed by Laurence Johnson , a supermarket owner with influence on the sponsors of radio and TV programmes , since their products were often sold through his chain of stores . |
| 8 | He had been chief executive of Glaxo — and ironically had been responsible for selling Evans to its management . |
| 9 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 10 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 11 | After the war , Elliott had been responsible for the interrogation of the Russian spy Kim Philby before he defected . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 14 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 15 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 16 | He had been responsible for a number of important buildings which , as well as the Public Record Office , included part of the Ordnance Office ( 1850–1 ) , the Museum of Economic Geology in Piccadilly ( 1847–8 ) and the western portion of Somerset House ( 1851–6 ) . |
| 17 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 18 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 19 | The Netherlands space agency , NIVR , had been responsible for the spacecraft that carries the telescope , and which houses the instruments to control the satellite 's ‘ attitude ’ , or pointing direction , and to store the data collected . |
| 20 | The workshop , his special pride , had been responsible for turning trees blown down in gales and storms into durable and comfortable seats for the open space areas . |
| 21 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 22 | The shock of finding out about her child had been responsible for her husband 's fatal apoplexy , and she would feel guilty for the rest of her life . |
| 23 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 24 | Once again she heard the nurses discussing their social life and then those thoughtless comments which had been responsible for instilling such negative thoughts in her subconscious-mind . |
| 25 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 26 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 27 | In the 1921 election a leaflet in support of the candidature of Kerrison argued that the Labour Party had been responsible for implementing the 1918 Act , providing home helps for poor mothers and supplying free milk in necessitous cases . |
| 28 | An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge . |
| 29 | Liza could not help being conscious of the similarity of the weather conditions which , nine months previously , had been responsible for today 's journey . |
| 30 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |