Example sentences of "been responsible for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuntman David Watson , who with partner Joe Wadham had been responsible for spectacular scenes in films such as Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines , was supposed to do this hair-raising sequence , but Crawford insisted on doing it himself . |
| 2 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 3 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 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 | The military authorities in Baku moved against the Azerbaijan Popular Front on Jan. 24 , arresting 43 leading members and raiding the offices of the National Defence Council , a radical group allied to the Front which had allegedly been responsible for co-ordinating arms supplies to Azerbaijani militants . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 . |
| 8 | Since 1983 large areas of Peru have been progressively designated emergency zones and placed under military control as part of counter-insurgency operations against the armed opposition groups , principally Sendero Luminoso which has been responsible for widespread atrocities . |
| 9 | 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 . |