Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] responsible for " in BNC.

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1 In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects .
2 Joining Rhenania in 1973 , he has been responsible for the company 's finance and accounts since 1976 .
3 Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire .
4 He spoke from his experience at Nissan where he has been responsible for developing and implementing Nissan 's philosophy and pratices and for ensuring that the business and personnel policies are totally integrated .
5 He had been responsible for a number of important buildings which , as well as the Public Record Office , included part of the Ordnance Office ( 1850–1 ) , the Museum of Economic Geology in Piccadilly ( 1847–8 ) and the western portion of Somerset House ( 1851–6 ) .
6 They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity .
7 An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge .
8 His confession — that he had been responsible for poisoning Mozart — has intrigued historians and musicians ever since , but it seems to be quite unfounded .
9 Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances .
10 The Field Marshal was to be tried on two counts : the first , that he had been responsible for the killing of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome and the second that he had incited his troops to act with unnecessary force against the partisans .
11 And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier .
12 Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway .
13 If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already .
14 He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself .
15 He had been responsible for looking after party affairs in Uttar Pradesh and in Maharashtra , where the Congress ( I ) government of Sharad Pawar was facing demands from four senior ministers that he be removed .
16 As Treasurer he had been responsible for the most sweeping economic reforms ever undertaken in Australia , including floating the dollar and deregulating the financial system .
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