Example sentences of "[be] responsible [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Cabinet has as members ministers who are running major departments , wanting to see the service for which they are responsible improved , but aware that collectively their joint demands could ruin their party 's chances in the next election .
2 That done , she went over to the school playground to face the forty or more children for whom she alone would be responsible that day .
3 Had to be responsible all her life .
4 Each primary nurse is allocated a small group of patients for whom she or he is responsible 24 hours a day , seven days a week .
5 Julian Schwinger and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. was responsible 30 years ago for the development of quantum electrodynamics — the first modern relativistic quantum theory — writes in his autobiography of that period that ‘ the ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories ’ .
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