Example sentences of "[verb] been responsible for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | In practice , this mistake has been responsible for much confusion in the discussion of syntactic possibilities and their means of expression . |
| 3 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 4 | We do not suggest that the Conservative Government has been responsible for that , we doubt that a Labour Government would have done any better . |
| 5 | Britain has been responsible for 52 per cent of all inventions worldwide in the past 30 years , according to a survey conducted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | ICI has been responsible for many major developments in acrylics since the 1930s . |
| 8 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 9 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 10 | In the past , the TA has been responsible for massive field hospitals ; the current approach is to make such hospitals much smaller and more flexible , and to increase their number . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since 1983 large areas of Peru have been progressively designated emergency zones and placed under military control as part of counter-insurgency operations against the armed opposition groups , principally Sendero Luminoso which has been responsible for widespread atrocities . |
| 13 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 14 | Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough . |
| 15 | As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The idea bears some analogy to the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community which brought these industries under an international authority to defuse the conflict of interest between Germany and France which was held to have been responsible for two world wars . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 22 | Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Experts remain divided on the question of Dr Proctor 's state of mind during the period when he is confirmed to have been responsible for seven hundred and fifty-three homicides , but the Supreme Court has ruled him insane and irresponsible . |
| 25 | Stuntman David Watson , who with partner Joe Wadham had been responsible for spectacular scenes in films such as Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines , was supposed to do this hair-raising sequence , but Crawford insisted on doing it himself . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | The company was formed on Albert Hill in 1864 and by the time it closed in 1879 it had been responsible for 40 bridges in Denmark , 20 bridges in Sweden all built in 1874 , all the viaducts on the Whitby-RedcarMiddlesbrough line including the Staithes Viaduct , Llandudno pier , a bridge in Syria , another over the Tay in Scotland and a footbridge over the Tees at Barnard Castle . |