Example sentences of "[verb] been responsible for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , this mistake has been responsible for much confusion in the discussion of syntactic possibilities and their means of expression . |
| 2 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr Peter Lucas , a director of Bond Corporation , named the man as Mr David Michael , who , he said , had been responsible for top-level corporation security until his dismissal last October . |
| 19 | Joxe 's position was taken by Philippe Marchand , previously a Minister-Delegate at the Interior Ministry who had been responsible for Territorial Collectivities and Civil Security . |
| 20 | In it , the Welsh Office stated that a solution for Wales had to take into account four major factors which distinguished it from England : the Welsh Office had been responsible for public sector higher education in Wales since 1978 ; the scale of the problem was quite different in that only eight local authorities and a small number of colleges were involved ; the Regional Advisory Council for the whole of Wales , the WJEC , was made up of these local authorities ; and it did not make sense , either on economic or educational grounds , to expect colleges in Wales to provide as wide a range of provision as would be expected in England . |
| 21 | The bulletins were written by Vincent Hartnett , who had been responsible for Red Channels , and AWARE was backed by Laurence Johnson , a supermarket owner with influence on the sponsors of radio and TV programmes , since their products were often sold through his chain of stores . |
| 22 | The authorities scored a significant success in the ongoing struggle against the underground movement within the armed forces — which had been responsible for numerous coup attempts against the government of President Corazon Aquino — with the arrest in Manila on Feb. 6 of Lt.-Col. Victor Batac and Maj. Abraham Purugganan . |
| 23 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 24 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |