Example sentences of "that [pron] is responsible for " in BNC.

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1 To say either that someone acts authoritatively or that someone is responsible for his actions may depend upon the possibility of ascribing mental states or capacities but neither is merely a shorthand way of ascribing them .
2 Instead , one has to adopt the effective theory that one has free will and that one is responsible for one 's actions .
3 And , anyway , the estate disputes that it is responsible for the leaking embankment .
4 It means that the proletariat is leading the entire working nation behind it , that it is responsible for the development of the whole of society , that it is becoming a great collective organiser of the entire national economy , that the direction of development is not towards a widening of the gulf between the fundamental class ( the working class and peasantry ) and that things are not moving towards a ‘ third revolution ’ , etc .
5 Prior to this study the ESRC was aware that it is responsible for probably no more than 10 to 20 per cent of social science support in higher education .
6 The US government has been told by congressional investigators that it is responsible for cleaning up possibly hundreds of thousands of publicly-owned environmentally hazardous sites , at a cost of billions of dollars .
7 Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft .
8 Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft .
9 Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft .
10 Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft .
11 Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) .
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