Example sentences of "responsible for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agencies may charge an agency or booking fee , and staff may be self-employed and responsible for their own tax and national insurance contributions . |
| 2 | From then , licencees will be responsible for their own transmitters , either owning or leasing them . |
| 3 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 4 | For homosexuals more than most , the search for sexual freedom in the realm of the foreign has been inseparable from a repudiation of the ‘ Western , culture responsible for their repression and oppression . |
| 5 | In holding British films responsible for their own failure , industrialists were encouraged by the willingness of US producers to assert that the aim of the American film industry was ‘ to Americanize the world . ’ |
| 6 | Spracklen , who is 52 and lives in Marlow , has been largely responsible for their revival , believing them as valid today as they were 100 years ago . |
| 7 | Some people take exception to this on the ground that it may imply that women generally have weaker characters and are less responsible for their behaviour . |
| 8 | Since they were chosen by the landowners of the county , the latter were held responsible for their conduct in office . |
| 9 | The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management . |
| 10 | Margaret McLaren , Britannia Life 's American investments manager responsible for their top-performing £15m fund , said : ‘ We still look favourably on the American market which generally rises in an election year but is down so far this year . |
| 11 | The reorganisation under the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act of 1973 made the people of the Western Isles much more directly responsible for their own development through the elected ‘ Comhairle nan Eilean ’ or Western Isles Islands Council ( WIIC ) . |
| 12 | These have a rapid turnover , and as they die the bacteria responsible for their decay use up all the oxygen in the pond , thus destroying all animal life . |
| 13 | Apparently the severe winter of 1947 was responsible for their destruction . |
| 14 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |
| 15 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 16 | People , as well as animals , secrete substances called pheromones which are responsible for their own individual body scent . |
| 17 | They must also communicate these to staff at the school and be responsible for their operation . |
| 18 | Searelle invited artistes to contact him by first writing to John , who thus became responsible for their standards . |
| 19 | It is disappointing that the subject specialists in these libraries ( who are usually responsible for their preparation ) do not take this critical approach , because one would have thought they were well capable of it . |
| 20 | One — in the important legal sense — raised the question of whether the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for their crimes . |
| 21 | If they became tied agents they were authorised to do business through the life office which took them on ; the life office , in turn , was responsible for their conduct . |
| 22 | One focus of discontent did raise the issue onto a more general level when it was argued that it was the southern origins of the planning officials which.were responsible for their unsympathetic approach to Orkney 's housing preferences . |
| 23 | He felt responsible for their separation and he knew that when he had had problems in the past , his parents had stopped arguing so much and pulled together to help him . |
| 24 | Without these two crucial procedures Champagne would not be the sophisticated product it is today , yet we can not trace the precise date when they first occurred , nor identify any particular person responsible for their innovation . |
| 25 | The function of the male is the guard the territory and to keep all intruders away ; meanwhile the female — or females , as males will maintain a harem if given several females — tends the eggs and wrigglers , and is responsible for their immediate safety when they emerge from the cave . |
| 26 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |
| 27 | The city will declare a neighbourhood clean-up week wherein all residents will be responsible for their block — a block captain will be assigned to ensure cooperation . |
| 28 | Patients aged 18 or over are deemed legally responsible for their own actions , and it is often with great reluctance that they will agree to see a doctor and possibly begin treatment or undergo admission to hospital . |
| 29 | The early Turbomeca Marbore IIs fitted to G-FUGA are unsophisticated single-stage centrifugal-compressor straight turbojets with minimal automatic controls , so the pilot is entirely responsible for their well-being at low rpm , and woe betide him if he tries to hurry them . |
| 30 | VIRGINIA Bottomley thinks that making patients write their own prescriptions will make them more responsible for their health . |