Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] responsible for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central NACAB office and the 22 area offices are responsible for this mammoth task , which until recently has accounted for one fifth of the NACAB budget . |
| 2 | However , because sulphur compounds are responsible for most of these effects it is very difficult to distinguish between the effects of pollution originating from local as opposed to distant sources ( refer to section 2.1 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No-one knows which ingredients are responsible for these almost magical properties . |
| 5 | The CBoT Directors are responsible for all aspects of the Exchange 's activity . |
| 6 | It is evident from this that the contractors were responsible for many of the details and not a little of the basic design . |
| 7 | Power plants are responsible for most of the pollution : they account for about 90 per cent of all the emissions of sulphur dioxide , 40 per cent of nitrogen dioxide and around 60-70 per cent of dust . |
| 8 | Family life and advancing years are responsible for that . |
| 9 | His governments were responsible for some major pieces of social legislation , for example in education , bureaucracy ( 1870 ) , Trade Unions ( 1871 ) , the law and electoral reform . |
| 10 | Managers are responsible for all aspects of their branch and should be able to investigate and resolve your complaint . |
| 11 | Already the Next Steps agencies are responsible for half of the staff undertaking the work of government ministries . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Storms are responsible for many personality changes . |
| 14 | The propellers are responsible for most of a hovercraft 's noise , especially the tearing sound made as the blade tips approach the speed of sound . |
| 15 | While The Shadows were responsible for this red/pink mania , some years later Jimi Hendrix inspired most of these to be refinished or over-painted — this time mostly in white . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Functional department heads are responsible for the organisation of the department , but project coordinators are responsible for all aspects of the project itself . |
| 18 | Its councillors were responsible for many public works schemes . |
| 19 | Previously , regional health authorities were responsible for most consultant appointments , but since April 1991 more and more consultants are being employed directly by trusts . |
| 20 | Altogether , these small builders were responsible for little more than a quarter of the houses . |
| 21 | Mr Barwise-Munro felt there was still a great deal to learn about bovine obstetrics and he discounted the farmer 's view that bulls were responsible for all problems , saying : ‘ The bull is important but we also have to consider the pelvic area of the female . |
| 22 | On El Salvador and Guatemala , Amnesty International said that it had " overwhelming evidence " that the Army and police were responsible for most of the kidnappings and political murders attributed to death squads . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Whole groups of state-owned enterprises would be sold , with the Council of Ministers being responsible for each enterprise on offer . |
| 25 | Faulty automatic alarms were responsible for half . |
| 26 | The county boroughs were responsible for all local government services within their boundaries . |
| 27 | We conclude that heterogeneous chemistry on background aerosols was responsible for this conversion , which brought with it the potential for additional ozone loss in the autumn . |