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

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1 After being responsible for your pet 's welfare for many years you may feel that you are repaying your pet 's love and loyalty by arranging for their death .
2 ‘ The Lucy Ring was disbanded in 1943 , after being responsible for some invaluable work .
3 But Fimbra 's rigid policing style has alienated many of the firms which have passed the test of being responsible , well-conducted businesses .
4 This business of being responsible for people had to stop somewhere , did n't it ?
5 Yet Arsenal , accused of being responsible for this perversion of their own style , kept their place among the goal-scoring vanguard despite the tightening of defences everywhere .
6 ONE of the joys of being responsible for a column like this is that the search for news creates opportunities to become involved in developments which are normally outside the availability of most enthusiasts .
7 Moreover , most self-employed contract computer staff are self-employed not only in the sense of being responsible for their own tax and paying Class II ( self-employed person 's ) social security contributions , but also in the sense of being one-man , limited companies .
8 Meanwhile , Ulster Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux today accused John Hume of being responsible for an increase in Sinn Fein 's vote in Belfast .
9 Emec , who was regarded as a conservative , had spoken out publicly against religious fundamentalism and had accused Syria of being responsible for the rising wave of terrorism .
10 It was established that Talb , while in Malta , had met Hafez Dalkammoni , a leading member of Ahmed Jabril 's Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) , which was suspected by US intelligence of being responsible for the Lockerbie bombing .
11 In late June several hundred PPP supporters had been arrested in Sind on charges of being responsible for a series of recent terrorist incidents in the province .
12 Finance Minister Barend du Plessis defended the right of the NP to hold the rally , and accused Terreblanche of being responsible for the deaths .
13 Investigations were then suspended for lack of police evidence , but reopened in 1987 when another judge accused the Dicomcar police intelligence directorate of being responsible .
14 But what young members , what young people find ironic , is that the same people who are telling them they 've never had it so good , in the same breath accuse them of being responsible for high community crime levels , drug and alcohol abuse and the violence .
15 The Indonesian Environment Minister , Emil Salim , has accused PT Tebor of being responsible for 80 per cent of all the waste from factories along the river .
16 It 's easy to look at these young hooligans on the street , as they are perceived by so many , without understanding why they are like it , and I think it would help everyone to understand , and maybe we could have some action to work towards supplying the need for these youngsters , because I belief if something could be done for them when they 're sixteen and just starting out on this erm sort of sub-culture life that they get into so quickly , if people could give them maximum help at this stage then they could grow into being responsible erm satisfied adults .
17 If a teacher leaves it up to the pupils to work on their own initiative , will they miss out on essential skills while coming to grips with being responsible for their own learning ?
18 Balfour & Sibbald were co-founders of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , and Balfour is also credited with being responsible for the introduction of the paper-making industry into Scotland .
19 When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . '
20 , director of research at ICAS and editor of the study , conceded that there can ‘ never be total independence but , in being responsible only to the chief executive and the financial reporting and audit committee , there could be relative but strong independence ’ .
21 Rule 3 : THE PERSON/COMPANY YOU BOUGHT THE GOODS FROM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEFECTS OR MISDESCRIPTIONS .
22 Had to be responsible all her life .
23 Designate yourself or a senior manager in your organisation to be responsible for seeing that the policy is applied reasonably and fairly .
24 What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ?
25 If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information .
26 Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield .
27 Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain .
28 Eleven men found to be responsible .
29 The refusal to be responsible and motivated , to get a job , to take on the brutalization and disenchantment entailed in ‘ gainful ’ employment .
30 Its leaders say it does not want to be responsible for any disturbances .
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