Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] be responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleischmann and Pons , who did not realise that they had measured their neutron signal incorrectly , thought that their cell was producing 10 000 neutrons per cm 3 of palladium each second ( in fact the totality of neutrons from cosmic rays , from the concrete in the laboratory , from radon and other gases seeping through the air vents may have been responsible for almost all of these and the fusion neutrons , if there were any , were far fewer ) , and so Jones ' data did n't appear very impressive . |
| 2 | A report today suggests that oil workers may have been responsible for the situation by bringing in an infectious agent such as a virus against which local children had no protection . |
| 3 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 4 | Biologists believe the same benthic algae may have been responsible for animal deaths on Loch Lubnaig , near Callander , not far from my Stirling home , and at Loch Insh on Speyside in the past two years . |
| 5 | It would be appreciated if teachers could please be responsible for getting their ‘ guinea pigs ’ to and from the venue . |
| 6 | Mujjaddedi had told media correspondents on May 31 that Hekmatyar 's men might have been responsible for the rocket attack on his aircraft on May 30 [ see p. 38915 ] . |
| 7 | Crash investigators believe fractured pins may have been responsible for the El Al cargo jet crash . |
| 8 | Sampling error because of an insufficient number of biopsy specimens may have been responsible for the fact that this difference did not reach significance . |
| 9 | I visited the chapel at Strangeways prison to see the great destruction that had occurred , and I wondered whether human beings could have been responsible for it . |