Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be responsible for " in BNC.

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1 What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ?
2 One person has to be responsible for co-ordinating all these different elements and the need for an integrated approach , with one person carrying the overview , was brought home sharply to me during a Youth Conference in Eastbourne in 1983 .
3 Finally he has decided that I 'm just the vet he needs to be responsible for their health . ’
4 ( 3 ) Unless a licence is transferred to another employee or agent within eight weeks from the time when the employee or agent named in a licence ceases to be responsible for the day to day running of the premises to which the licence relates , the licence shall cease to have effect .
5 texts which reinforce undeviating sex roles with each novel studied : For example , in Kes , Mrs Casper , neglectful and ineffectual as a parent , appears to be responsible for Billy 's aberrant behaviour , while the absconding father is romanticized and apparently blameless .
6 In Xenopus embryos , the intracellular level of calcium oscillates during the cell cycle , reaching a peak at mitosis , when it seems to be responsible for triggering nuclear envelope breakdown at prophase .
7 There are at least four species of which C parvum seems to be responsible for most human infection .
8 The £5 billion UK packaging industry consumes six per cent of total energy but claims to be responsible for just one per cent of waste .
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