Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] responsible for [det] " in BNC.

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1 The Exchange 's executive director Sergey Starodubov has said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant that the majority of offers from foreign firms amount to the foreign partners being responsible for most of the hard currency expenditure involved in carrying out a project .
2 ‘ The identification of morphogenetic fields with electromagnetic fields is responsible for much of the confusion inherent in H.S. Burr 's theory of electrodynamic ‘ life fields ’ .
3 His belief that specific principles were responsible for each phase of digestion lay behind his discovery of the action of acid in the stomach and alkali in the duodenum .
4 Faulty automatic alarms were responsible for half .
5 Altogether , these small builders were responsible for little more than a quarter of the houses .
6 The exclusion of votes for very small parties is responsible for another slight deviation : it means that — as the figures given at the beginning of this chapter showed — the other patties secure a percentage of seats marginally greater than their percentage of all the votes .
7 Family life and advancing years are responsible for that .
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