Example sentences of "[vb base] been responsible for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government have been responsible for much of the secrecy surrounding many of their policies . |
| 2 | Conservative Governments have been responsible for all major environmental legislation . |
| 3 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 4 | As will be seen in Chapter 6 , however , some of these isolates have been responsible for many of the revolutionary advances in scientific knowledge . |
| 5 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 6 | Behind the scenes at London Zoo , staff have been responsible for some notable breeding achievements among rare and endangered species . |