Example sentences of "responsible for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director General since 1984 of the government-funded Health & Safety Executive responsible for industrial safety and inspectorates . |
| 2 | Each partner may also be responsible for other spending . |
| 3 | The structural change in England and Wales was accompanied by a change in central government organization , whereby the Home Office 's responsibility for children 's services was passed over to the Department of Health and Social Security , which was already responsible for other welfare services . |
| 4 | The phrase was coined by writer Leon Griffiths , who was also responsible for other Daley gems like ‘ nice little earner , ’ and ‘ the world 's your lobster ’ . |
| 5 | Liverpool have acknowledged receipt of their letter in which they hold Saunders responsible for dangerous play . |
| 6 | P.B. We [ himself and Gill Davies , a Deputy Head responsible for pastoral care ] were also very sceptical about the position . |
| 7 | A similar activation process is responsible for stimulating PLC- γ 1 following crosslinking of IgM receptors in B lymphocytes or activation of the T-cell antigen receptor ( TCR ) -CD3 receptor complex of T cells . |
| 8 | As a kind of amalgam of a Ministry of Justice ( dealing with the rights of the individual ) and a Department of the Interior ( responsible for internal order and the integrity of the state ) , it would hardly be surprising for the Home Office to show symptoms of schizophrenia ; it controls immigration , prisons , and drug abuse , for example , in addition to carrying responsibility for the Metropolitan Police and the Special Branch , and all these activities depend heavily on collecting and using personal information . |
| 9 | Later , the Presidential Council ( which was politically ineffective ) was replaced by a Security Council ( responsible for internal law and order and external security ) , while the Federation Council was given enhanced powers to meet the demands of the republics . |
| 10 | Under the Constitution as revised in 1972 there is a Legislative Assembly with 12 elected and three official members , while the Governor and Executive Council ( comprising three official members and four elected by and from the Legislative Assembly ) are responsible for internal administration . |
| 11 | These processes , too , are subject to political and economic analyses and are often intimately bound up with land-users who are responsible for accelerated soil erosion . |
| 12 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 13 | Under the programme outlined in ‘ Restoring the Balance ’ the single tier authority would be responsible for strategic management such as setting performance and quality standards . |
| 14 | The GLC and MCCs were responsible for strategic planning , refuse disposal , transport , fire and police ( outside London ) . |
| 15 | After all this it should not be surprising to find as well that the man in charge of Provincial 's finances is also responsible for strategic planning and overseas operations spanning Kenya , East Asia and Australia . |
| 16 | As you are aware , the Regional Council is responsible for strategic planning and therefore does not hold information on such matters as land ownership , rights of way and industrial planning consents . |
| 17 | KEN ATKINS is the planning and business development manager , responsible for strategic planning and technology . |
| 18 | The firm of Waring & Gillow was responsible for contemporary furniture in many large houses , and supplied the Dolls ' House with typical , practical pieces for staff bedrooms . |
| 19 | Einstein was almost singlehandedly responsible for general relativity , and he played an important part in the development of quantum mechanics . |
| 20 | Leases are long , perhaps 25 years , and tenants agree to be responsible for general insurance and repairs . |
| 21 | District nurses were solely responsible for current treatment in the majority of cases |
| 22 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 23 | A number of actuaries are responsible for individual company pension schemes with funds amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds . |
| 24 | ( The further implication is that the change in the effectiveness of the stimulus that is responsible for latent inhibition is not susceptible to the effects of heightened arousal . ) |
| 25 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 26 | The mechanism responsible for latent inhibition may still be a loss of stimulus associability but we need some new account of how this loss comes about . |
| 27 | The presentation of S2 will , according to the theory , act as a distractor , limiting the subject 's ability to process the target S1 and thus the development of the context — S1 association supposedly responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 28 | It may already be obvious , however , that even the results summarized in Fig. 4.7 do not require us to conclude that the mechanism responsible for latent inhibition is quite different from that responsible for orthodox associative interference effects . |
| 29 | Only by knowing the mechanisms responsible for latent inhibition will we be able to eliminate its effects allowing other forms of perceptual learning to be revealed . |
| 30 | It is , therefore , important to try to establish the starting point relevant to the early 1990s in order to convince those that are responsible for overall planning and funding that there is an increasing need to train skilled personnel in all the health professions but particularly in medicine . |