Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] be responsible [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sub-commissioner José Amedo and Inspector Michel Domi nguez had participated in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación ( GAL ) , which were said to have been responsible for the assassination of 22 ETA leaders and alleged sympathizers in Basque areas of southern France between December 1983 and July 1986 . |
| 2 | A destructive flood was an annual possibility , and the god of Heaven Anu and the storm-god Enlil , who were believed to have been responsible for the decision to destroy mankind , were invoked in the incantation passages of the legend of the Flood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chang was alleged to have been responsible for a 1976 letter-bomb attack which had injured Taiwan 's Governor , Shieh Tung-min . |
| 5 | Kintanar , 42 , was believed to have been responsible for the NPA 's post-Marcos strategy of trying to increase the organization 's capacity to extend its guerrilla war from its traditional rural sphere . |
| 6 | 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 . |