Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to be responsible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , increased delegation will depend on government carving out more areas of activity for which authorities are seen to be responsible , and central intervention is improper . |
| 2 | Environmental chemicals and foods are said to be responsible for an unlimited variety of symptoms which occur in the absence of physical findings or abnormal laboratory results . |
| 3 | Changes in the gall bladder , such as the increased absorption of water and the hypersecretion of mucous glycoprotein have also been shown to be responsible for cholesterol gall stone formation . |
| 4 | Dietary deficiency , low circulating oestrogens , hypercortisolism , laxative misuse , and disturbed acid-base balance are thought to be responsible . |
| 5 | Pesticides washed from farms and gardens into creeks and ponds are thought to be responsible . |
| 6 | Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU . |
| 7 | To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following : |
| 8 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 9 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 10 | If a car is unlawfully taken and then returned in a damaged state , it seems absolutely right that the person or persons responsible for taking it should be assumed to be responsible for causing the damage unless they can prove the contrary . |
| 11 | In organizations and government departments who regularly advertise , someone will be appointed to be responsible for the advertising . |
| 12 | While people may be held to be responsible for an action they may not always be asked to account for it . |
| 13 | However , the rising level of deaths and serious injuries in industry generally is a matter of great shame to us all , but it is a matter of great shame in particular for those who can be held to be responsible . |
| 14 | The view that it is sufficient to point out that policies are ‘ wrong ’ is often linked with a view of policy making in which men and women of good will are believed to be responsible and are anxious to rectify the unwitting mistakes made in the past . |
| 15 | The introduction of all-seater stadiums along with the new football offences act which makes it illegal to run onto the pitch are believed to be responsible for the reduction in violence . |
| 16 | These three reactive oxygen species are believed to be responsible for tissue injury . |
| 17 | Industrial emissions from Europe , Asia and North America are believed to be responsible for the phenomenon . |
| 18 | Arsonists are believed to be responsible for destroying part of a film-processing laboratory causing thirty thousand pounds damage . |
| 19 | On Feb. 11 , four members of the underground Takfir wa Hijra group were arrested near Blida , while a group of so-called " Afghans " ( fundamentalist combatants trained in Afghanistan ) were reported to be responsible , among other attacks , for an attack on a naval repair centre near Algiers harbour on Feb. 13 in which one soldier and two of the attackers were killed . |
| 20 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 21 | For example , the Variscan orogenic cycles started in the Paleozoic era were said to be responsible for the mountain chains of North America , Europe and Africa . |
| 22 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 23 | Tamil separatists belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) were said to be responsible for the massacre on Oct. 15 of more than 140 people , mostly Moslems , in pre-dawn raids on three villages in the northern district of Polunnaruwa . |
| 24 | Modern farming methods , particularly in arable crop fields , were thought to be responsible for the declines . |
| 25 | Toxic chemicals dumped in the unlined landfill site were believed to be responsible for leukaemia and birth defects among children of families living nearby . |
| 26 | Each culture has a unique interpretation of the concept of ‘ safety ’ and what is deemed to be responsible , ‘ safe ’ behaviour by individuals . |
| 27 | The industry is alleged to be responsible for the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) , through the practice of feeding farm stock with recycled remains of other farm animals and poultry . |
| 28 | A HOODED man who raped a 19-year-old student is thought to be responsible for at least six other sex attacks over the past two years . |
| 29 | Alcohol is thought to be responsible for 40,000 premature deaths a year , as well as 60pc of suicide attempts , 50pc of murders , 54pc of fires and 30pc of domestic accidents . |
| 30 | Those with near-normal left ventricular function and advanced obstructive coronary artery disease in whom reversible ischaemia is believed to be responsible for cardiac arrest can be treated with revascularisation alone . |