Example sentences of "be responsible for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you 're responsible for one dog , you form a special partnership with him . |
| 2 | It is , therefore , important to try to establish the starting point relevant to the early 1990s in order to convince those that are responsible for overall planning and funding that there is an increasing need to train skilled personnel in all the health professions but particularly in medicine . |
| 3 | Against Mannoni 's assertion to the contrary , Fanon insists that ‘ European civilization and its best representatives are responsible for colonial racism ’ ( p. 90 , my italics ) . |
| 4 | Even in areas where the use of nylon set-nets and ‘ rolling hooks ’ are officially prohibited , these practices are still in use and are responsible for many dolphin deaths each year . |
| 5 | Storms are responsible for many personality changes . |
| 6 | Yet it is these autonomous , creative , challenge-driven people who are responsible for new businesses , new techniques , new insights , new products , new buildings , new research projects and new forms of art . |
| 7 | Functional department heads are responsible for the organisation of the department , but project coordinators are responsible for all aspects of the project itself . |
| 8 | Managers are responsible for all aspects of their branch and should be able to investigate and resolve your complaint . |
| 9 | The CBoT Directors are responsible for all aspects of the Exchange 's activity . |
| 10 | Thugs like Watson are responsible for that reign of terror . |
| 11 | You are responsible for that job and you are identified on the project quality plan check list as to what you will be doing and what other members of the team will be doing . |
| 12 | ‘ The Chipperfields are responsible for that side of the business . ’ |
| 13 | But in terms of comparison and competition the professionals who are responsible for one school 's management may now have to justify to governors and to parents a consumption of time which some people might think would be better spent on raising pupils ' performance in a limited field and in ways which are visible , competitive and market-orientated . |
| 14 | It is an absurdity to say that we are responsible for bogus applicants . |
| 15 | * The London Dumping Convention has made moves to establish a global control mechanism over land-based emissions which are responsible for 80 percent of marine waste . |
| 16 | Under the Constitution as revised in 1972 there is a Legislative Assembly with 12 elected and three official members , while the Governor and Executive Council ( comprising three official members and four elected by and from the Legislative Assembly ) are responsible for internal administration . |
| 17 | The foreign drivers are responsible for 4,892 traffic accidents in Bohemia and Moravia in 1990. 128 persons was killed and 224 heavy injured . |
| 18 | Oesophagostomum infections in the pig are less often associated with clinical disease , but are responsible for poor productivity . |
| 19 | The other thing that we need to say is that far from creating efficiencies within the N H S , the bureaucracy attached to the changes when people are responsible for managing contracts , dealing with contracts , dealing with specifications for contracts . |
| 20 | A number of actuaries are responsible for individual company pension schemes with funds amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds . |
| 21 | A fairly narrow range of people are responsible for key decisions ; some of these attain such positions through democratic representational procedures , but they co-opt others to their ranks . |
| 22 | These processes , too , are subject to political and economic analyses and are often intimately bound up with land-users who are responsible for accelerated soil erosion . |
| 23 | It has been shown that many additives are responsible for behavioural problems among young people , such as irritability , clumsiness , excitability and aggressiveness . |
| 24 | Although the details of their theory are now seen to be clearly wrong , their insight , that different parts of the brain are responsible for different processes , has stood the test of time and research and informs much of our current understanding of the brain . |
| 25 | However , in some tropical and subtropical areas , some species are responsible for severe enteritis in calves . |
| 26 | The passenger and apron services staff are responsible for some cargo handling , ensuring that standards of safety on the airfield can be maintained and providing portering facilities to the travelling public . |
| 27 | Ministers make excuses in their own interests , but they are responsible for these matters and they should do their job properly . |
| 28 | Your are responsible for any charges , fines etc. that may be levied by authorities in the U.K. or overseas for noncompliance of regulations in this area and any such amounts will be recharged to you . |
| 29 | The trichostrongyloids , including Dictyocaulus , are responsible for considerable mortality and widespread morbidity , especially in ruminants . |
| 30 | Male rat urine affects the behaviour and sexual response of female rats , leading to the proposal that rodent urinary proteins are responsible for binding pheromones and their subsequent release from drying urine . |