Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had been responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 2 | The bulletins were written by Vincent Hartnett , who had been responsible for Red Channels , and AWARE was backed by Laurence Johnson , a supermarket owner with influence on the sponsors of radio and TV programmes , since their products were often sold through his chain of stores . |
| 3 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 4 | The breakthrough came in 1980 , when we received a copy of a letter to Michael Heseltine from a former Labour minister who had been responsible for historic buildings under the previous government . |
| 5 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 6 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 7 | In the Highlands it might even be a matter of clanship , for in 1776 Lord Kames declared fugitive five women who had been responsible for assembling a mob which had insulted and attacked Patrick Grant , the new presentee at Boleskine , part of the forfeited Lovat estate , ‘ in resentment that they were not to get a gentleman of the name of Fraser to be their minister ’ . |
| 8 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 9 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 10 | Two other Grand Councillors , appointed at the same time , were Leslie Edwards , who had been responsible for the organisation of the Cardiff gathering , and Alec Taylor , who had been a member of the BDDA since 1907 , and a Vice-president since 1937 . |
| 11 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 12 | Developed by a team of ex-Digital Research programmers , mainly people who had been responsible for the GEM environment , it was taken on by Xerox who , much to everyone 's amazement , managed to market the product worldwide . |
| 13 | Joxe 's position was taken by Philippe Marchand , previously a Minister-Delegate at the Interior Ministry who had been responsible for Territorial Collectivities and Civil Security . |
| 14 | In June 1991 he dismissed Kalpokas , who had been responsible for both Education and Foreign Affairs , and three others , including the Home Affairs Minister Iolu Abil . |
| 15 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 16 | Her brow furrowed on the realisation that it was Niall who had been responsible for the last-minute change of plans . |