Example sentences of "responsible for the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | These provisions have been one of the major forces responsible for the complete change in standard terms and conditions for dealing with consumers that came in after the passing of the UCTA . |
| 2 | The same changes in society have also been responsible for the parallel growth in the importance of experts acting as expert witnesses . |
| 3 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 4 | The 1932 Conference reflected a radical reaction to the defeat of 1931 and particularly to bankers , who were held responsible for the financial collapse in Britain and throughout the Western world . |
| 5 | Deputies held Serbia responsible for the civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina and proposed to send international observers to the provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina " where there is no war yet but minorities are in danger " . |
| 6 | In his view , it is the failure to develop the social and political attitudes appropriate to a welfare society , which could also be called a democratic socialist society , that is responsible for the limited success in building a welfare state . |
| 7 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 8 | Genetic changes in both host and parasite were responsible for the evolved differences in virulence . |
| 9 | Melanocytes are those cells that produce the brown pigment , melanin , which is responsible for the principal differences in the colours of the human race . |
| 10 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 11 | The nature of the retrograde messenger may give clues to the processes responsible for the sustained increase in transmitter release . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that such a speculative bubble may have been responsible for the rapid rise in equity prices in 1987 . |
| 13 | Together with van de Kamer and Weyers , he subsequently published that the alcohol soluble or the gliadin component of the water insoluble protein or gluten moiety of wheat , was responsible for the fat malabsorption in patients with coeliac disease . |
| 14 | The mean time taken to achieve a normal cry , although shorter in the artemether group , was not significantly so , and the difference was not responsible for the significant difference in coma resolution times . |
| 15 | This is important because it suggests that the courts themselves may well be largely responsible for the dramatic increase in the number ( and proportion ) of triable either way cases coming before the Crown Court in recent years . |
| 16 | The cost of limiting emissions of greenhouse gases has to be borne by those societies which are responsible for the cumulative increase in their concentration levels . |
| 17 | The warden was responsible for the safe keeping in the castle gaol of ordinary prisoners and political prisoners , as well as Forest offenders , and for delivering them on bail on receipt of the appropriate writ . |
| 18 | Further declines in infant mortality and substantial declines in mortality of older adults had to await the twentieth century , where the former was substantially responsible for the improved trend in expectation of life ( see Woods and Hinde 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Not only is it an American plane that is responsible for the dreadful situation in which we find ourselves , but it was someone in America who was ultimately responsible . |
| 20 | In an attempt to analyse which components in particular of the Directive seem to be responsible for the considerable degradation in upland habitats ( and ultimately the flora and fauna they support ) in the UK the implementation of the Directive in the French and UK uplands was studied and compared . |
| 21 | Neither recruitment of cells from adjacent trunk mesenchyme nor oedema are responsible for the observed increase in -AER limb length , because similar results are obtained with cultures of detached limbs , and there is no obvious change in mesenchyme cell density following FGF-4 treatment ( Fig. 2 e , f , and data not shown ) . |
| 22 | It is likely , however , that factors other than bile salts are responsible for the massive rise in PYY and enteroglucagon that accompany coeliac sprue as bile salt malabsorption is not a feature of that disease . |