Example sentences of "been responsible for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Conservative Governments have been responsible for all major environmental legislation . |
| 3 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 4 | Human interference has often been responsible for such introductions . |
| 5 | As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war . |
| 6 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 7 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 8 | As will be seen in Chapter 6 , however , some of these isolates have been responsible for many of the revolutionary advances in scientific knowledge . |
| 9 | ICI has been responsible for many major developments in acrylics since the 1930s . |
| 10 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 11 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 12 | We do not suggest that the Conservative Government has been responsible for that , we doubt that a Labour Government would have done any better . |
| 13 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 14 | Payne , Whitson and Varga are believed to have been responsible for much of the consortium 's recent sales of its catalogue and anti-NT white paper , a source of revenue . |
| 15 | The Government have been responsible for much of the secrecy surrounding many of their policies . |
| 16 | In practice , this mistake has been responsible for much confusion in the discussion of syntactic possibilities and their means of expression . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 19 | Robin Cranko thinks that one of them , if not both , must have been responsible for some branches of the Cranko family whom he came across during his researches . |
| 20 | Behind the scenes at London Zoo , staff have been responsible for some notable breeding achievements among rare and endangered species . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 23 | The dominance of London may partly reflect the decline of other centres , particularly in the South and South-east , and indeed London merchants may sometimes have been responsible for this . |
| 24 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |
| 25 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 26 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force , coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths . |
| 29 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 30 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |