Example sentences of "[modal v] be responsible for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report , Rental Purchase : The Case for Change , the housing pressure group says that people buying properties on rental purchase schemes — common in the north of England for cheaper property — should be protected as if they were assured tenants under the Housing Act 1988 , and landlords should be responsible for all repairs . |
| 2 | Who Should be Responsible for Diabetic Care ? |
| 3 | Er there was no constraints erm within the project or within the responsibility statement on saying that somebody else should be responsible for certain things that we felt were outside our , our remit . |
| 4 | The Cadbury Committee recommends that the chairman of the audit committee should be responsible for answering questions about its work at the agm . |
| 5 | He suggested , as I describe earlier , that the NHS should confine itself to health care , and local authorities should be responsible for social care . |
| 6 | Otherwise , impact scattering and condensation from impact vapour must be responsible for this uniformity . |
| 7 | It was Arthur Holmes who first suggested that mantle convection currents might be responsible for continental movements , but he lacked any direct geophysical data that might have supported his views . |
| 8 | The mechanisms that might be responsible for these effects are in need of fuller specification but the effort would perhaps not be worthwhile since in fact they do not account for the results to be explained . |
| 9 | I 'm Nick and I 'm the development director for Moat , responsible for all of our new development activities and I have with me tonight Sally our assistant development manager for Essex , who 'll be responsible for this project and also two of our consultants dealing with the scheme , Alan from Anglian Design who are acting as architects on the scheme and Howard from Space , who have been acting as our employer 's agent and consultant and will administer the building contract for , for all the phases of this , this project . |
| 10 | Consider now to what extent changes in a country 's monetary variables may be responsible for cyclical variations in real output . |
| 11 | This blood-sucking abomasal nematode may be responsible for extensive losses in sheep and cattle , especially in tropical areas . |
| 12 | There are three or four geochemical classes of plumes , and a different process may be responsible for each class . |
| 13 | The police believe he may be responsible for three robberies which took place in the Thames Valley region in one afternoon . |
| 14 | These data suggest that technical factors may be responsible for some cases of puchitis with mucosal ischaemia being a possible pathogenetic mechanism . |
| 15 | Only one member of this genus , Syngamus trachea , is of veterinary significance and parasitises the upper respiratory tract of non-aquatic birds ; it is commonly known as the " gapeworm " and may be responsible for respiratory distress and death . |
| 16 | There are several possible mechanisms which may be responsible for this adaptation . |
| 17 | There are three main factors that may be responsible for this behaviour . |
| 18 | These disorders are phenotypically distinct , depending on the parent of origin of the deleted chromosome , but both syndromes are often associated with hypopigmentation of the skin , hair and eyes ( see ref. 8 for review ) , and deletion of the P gene may be responsible for this hypopigmentation . |
| 19 | Under the programme outlined in ‘ Restoring the Balance ’ the single tier authority would be responsible for strategic management such as setting performance and quality standards . |
| 20 | Most important of all , a central committee , rather like the Cabinet , would be responsible for key policy and spending priorities — the policy and resources committee . |
| 21 | However the whole team would be responsible for all aspects of Council Tax for individual taxpayers in that area . |
| 22 | In October 1986 , the Secretary of State for Health announced the setting up of a project in which ten voluntary agencies would be responsible for self-help family centres . |
| 23 | Although the local authority would be responsible for any damages in cases of negligence , it could in turn take disciplinary action against teachers . |
| 24 | New state governments would be responsible for local administration and some tax collection , with central government retaining control over foreign policy , military affairs , trade , the economy and other key sectors . |
| 25 | Finally ‘ bronze ’ officers would be responsible for post-disaster operations . |
| 26 | Both cases involved plant hire contracts on the Contractors Plant Association standard terms which provided in clause 8 that drivers of equipment supplied by the owner were : for all purposes in connection with their employment in the working of the plant to be regarded as the servants or agents of the hirer … who alone shall be responsible for all claims arising in connection with the operation of the plant by the said drivers or operators . |
| 27 | ‘ The Lead Organization ’ shall mean Oxford University Press which , acting on behalf of all of the Parties , shall be responsible for all communications with IEATP , shall receive any grant offer from the Secretary of State and shall act as Project Manager for the carrying out of the Project . |
| 28 | A ministerial committee will be retained to co-ordinate the government 's approach to environmental issues and a minister from each department will be responsible for environmental policies . |
| 29 | A tenant could be held responsible for an absentee landlord , in the same way that a married couple and partners living together as husband and wife will be responsible for each other . |
| 30 | For the benefit of the clients , and also for the orderly conduct of the promotion , the agent will normally supply a table of steps , setting out clearly the various procedural steps required by the General Orders , in chronological order , and showing who precisely will be responsible for each step ; most of the steps are taken by the agent , but in some cases local newspaper advertisement and local service is undertaken by the client . |