Example sentences of "[been] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LTTE has also been responsible for massacres , both of Sinhalese and Moslem civilians , since June 1990 and against rival Tamil political groups who , in some cases , have now aligned themselves with the government 's forces . |
| 2 | It goes without saying that the definition has been responsible for a major literature . |
| 3 | But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education . |
| 4 | This technique has probably been responsible for scoring more points than any other in the entire history of karate competition . |
| 5 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 6 | The man Bleasdale picked to head up its new Charter Train Unit was David Ward , who since 1976 had been responsible for co-ordinating main-line steam operations in conjunction with the Steam Locomotive Owners Association ( SLOA ) . |
| 7 | Safe as the Mark 3 coaches have been , however , their designers have been responsible for actually causing one or two accidents because straps and fixings holding underfloor equipment were inadequate and worked loose , allowing major items to fall off . |
| 8 | As head of Radio 2 's music department for the last four years , Ms Line has been responsible for the blend of easy listening that makes up 80 per cent of its 24-hours-a-day output , along with presenters such as Derek Jameson and Jimmy Young . |
| 9 | Leaders of ambulance crews argue that their industrial action , in protest at a 6.5 per cent pay offer , has exposed the lack of personnel which may have been responsible for the deaths . |
| 10 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 11 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 12 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 13 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The US , where Tie Rack now has 41 shops , has also been responsible for the first half loss . |
| 16 | Mr Peter Lucas , a director of Bond Corporation , named the man as Mr David Michael , who , he said , had been responsible for top-level corporation security until his dismissal last October . |
| 17 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 18 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 19 | Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mrs Browning had declared it was all too bad , too dreadful an imposition to have been responsible for and that she would not be able to look the Ogilvys in the eye ever again after causing them such vexation . |
| 22 | Where there were departures from the common pattern special circumstances could often be identified which might have been responsible for the deviation . |
| 23 | He had been chief executive of Glaxo — and ironically had been responsible for selling Evans to its management . |
| 24 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 25 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 26 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 27 | After the war , Elliott had been responsible for the interrogation of the Russian spy Kim Philby before he defected . |
| 28 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |
| 29 | One of the most interesting features of the building is the Trivulzio chapel through which the basilica is entered , its position on the original façade of the church having been responsible for the loss of the early , Romanesque , frontage . |
| 30 | Outmigration to cities in search of menial jobs or part-time work in nearby plantations provide remittances and reduce food demand , but these activities also reduce labour availability and have been responsible for the collapse of old-established terracing systems in the Middle and near East , particularly Yemen and also in the Andean part of Peru and Colombia . |