Example sentences of "to be responsible " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Had to be responsible all her life . |
| 2 | Designate yourself or a senior manager in your organisation to be responsible for seeing that the policy is applied reasonably and fairly . |
| 3 | What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ? |
| 4 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 5 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 6 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 7 | Eleven men found to be responsible . |
| 8 | The refusal to be responsible and motivated , to get a job , to take on the brutalization and disenchantment entailed in ‘ gainful ’ employment . |
| 9 | Its leaders say it does not want to be responsible for any disturbances . |
| 10 | Those who are not responsible for raising taxes are not likely to be responsible about spending them . |
| 11 | In Hinduism there is a burden placed on women to be responsible for protecting the community from their potential ‘ pollution ’ . |
| 12 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 13 | One person has to be responsible for co-ordinating all these different elements and the need for an integrated approach , with one person carrying the overview , was brought home sharply to me during a Youth Conference in Eastbourne in 1983 . |
| 14 | The archdeacon in the king 's presence appointed his brother Richard to perform the duties of his Forest office in his place , and agreed to be responsible for him . |
| 15 | They believe they have found a cheap , practical means of preventing dolphins entangling themselves in monofilament drift fishing nets — the ‘ walls of death ’ believed to be responsible for killing large numbers of dolphins off Cornwall this year . |
| 16 | The £5 billion UK packaging industry consumes six per cent of total energy but claims to be responsible for just one per cent of waste . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , for those who have received an arts education , such as the people who are likely to be responsible for restoration , this type of thinking must be assimilated and understood . |
| 19 | because the situations dealt with by professionals are unique , the professional must be given authority to solve them and to be responsible for the outcome . |
| 20 | The TECs will continue to be responsible for the YT programme for this age group . |
| 21 | One part of BR will continue to be responsible for all track and infrastructure . |
| 22 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 23 | Thus the overshadowing effect can be explained without recourse to the mechanisms usually supposed to be responsible for it in associative learning ( but see Pearce 1987 ) . |
| 24 | However , a Nationalist motion calling for the setting up of a small committee to be responsible for housing allocations was rejected . |
| 25 | If a lavatory seat is to be responsible then it is more likely to be the male who suffers . |
| 26 | Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU . |
| 27 | Efficiency improvements in cars are likely to be responsible for significant conservation of fuel in the next 10 years . |
| 28 | In an attempt to analyse which components in particular of the Directive seem to be responsible for the considerable degradation in upland habitats ( and ultimately the flora and fauna they support ) in the UK the implementation of the Directive in the French and UK uplands was studied and compared . |
| 29 | Most university libraries in Britain have appointed to their staffs some subject specialists , with qualifications in a subject as well as in librarianship , to be responsible for book selection and reference and information work ( and sometimes other activities ) within their specialization . |
| 30 | If you are to live in rented accommodation or a hotel while finding somewhere more permanent to live in your new domicile , your employer may be willing to be responsible for those costs . |