Example sentences of "responsible for [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a general principle of English and also Scandinavian medieval law that relatives who inherited land were responsible for supporting its former owners , including widows . |
| 2 | In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act , colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings , funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education , further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training , stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more . |
| 3 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 4 | No one who is responsible for massacring his fellow citizens will be accepted as a partner in the effort to bring peace to Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | The water industry in Britain is divided up into a number of autonomous water companies and councils ( Chapter 3 gives details ) and each is responsible for producing its own water bye-laws . |
| 6 | As a general rule , residents should be considered responsible for taking their own medicines , but some may be administered by care assistants under the supervision of senior staff . |
| 7 | The Council was financed jointly by the Ministry and the Local Education Authorities and respected the principle that each school should be responsible for determining its own curricula and teaching methods . |
| 8 | They have also developed the use of ‘ self inspection ’ — each group responsible for inspecting its own work — and giving responsibility to work groups for minor routine maintenance such as changing tips of welding guns and making minor adjustments . |
| 9 | The view of pedagogy proposed here , then , makes teachers responsible for defining their own problems and providing their own solutions . |
| 10 | During the day users are responsible for inputting their own data , while at night this machine runs commercial batch work . |
| 11 | He laid a small bet with himself that Fishbane had been responsible for giving her this photo-opportunity . |
| 12 | They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too . |
| 13 | And he does not believe the Government 's proposals to make gipsies responsible for finding their own sites will work either . |
| 14 | The POR had considerable influence in the powerful Bolivian mine-workers ' union , the FSTMB , and was responsible for drafting its main charter , the Thesis of Pulacayo , in 1946 . |
| 15 | Each country has been responsible for arranging its own section within the theme of the ‘ production of cultural difference ’ ( a declared blow against Euro-centrism ) while a general catalogue , coordinated by the director of the Third Biennial , Vasif Kortun , will be published in Turkey . |
| 16 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
| 17 | There are 15 contractors appointed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) each responsible for selling their own air time as prime time or other time . |