Example sentences of "[verb] been responsible for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |
| 2 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 3 | In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects . |
| 4 | Ruth McCurry , who has been responsible for Mowbray 's development since its purchase by Cassell in 1988 , continues as publisher with responsibility for Geoffrey Chapman . |
| 5 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 6 | But Ian Shiels , who works in the warehouse and has been responsible for football activity in the past , is aware of this and is hoping for better things to come . |
| 7 | According to the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , the trade in rhino horn products in these countries has been responsible for deaths of some 60,000 rhinos , or 85 per cent of the total population , since 1970 . |
| 8 | Biologists believe the same benthic algae may have been responsible for animal deaths on Loch Lubnaig , near Callander , not far from my Stirling home , and at Loch Insh on Speyside in the past two years . |
| 9 | He even seems to have been responsible for Sigismund 's most formal letters , those addressed to the eastern emperor . |
| 10 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 11 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 12 | A vengeful Mrs Wallace Reid turned over to police all the names of those she believed had been responsible for Wally 's debauched lifestyle . |
| 13 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |
| 14 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 15 | The report of the Seebohm Committee recommended the creation of unified social services departments which , from 1970 , have been responsible for work under various Children Acts . |
| 16 | Until now several teams in different parts of the country have been responsible for organ co-ordination . |
| 17 | The nine Regional Councils and the three Islands Councils have been responsible for water , sewerage and sewage disposal since local government reorganisation in 1975 . |
| 18 | In Rwanda soldiers loyal to President Juvénal Habyarimana have been responsible for atrocities against Rwanda 's Tutsi minority . |