Example sentences of "had [be] responsible for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 3 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |
| 4 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 5 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 6 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 7 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
| 8 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |