Example sentences of "[pron] responsible for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was anger , she 'd thought suddenly , anger as sharp and cruel as the blade of a knife , as if he 'd held her responsible for the desire so clearly etched into his arrogant , handsome face … |
| 2 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 3 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 4 | Rothbury was probably not himself responsible for the change , merely the executor of a policy determined by others . |
| 5 | I 'll hold you responsible for the clan while I 'm away . ’ |
| 6 | The letter , from Oxfordshire County Council 's engineering department , said : ’ I understand you are the owner of the vehicle involved and therefore must inform you that the council holds you responsible for the costs of repairs arising from this incident . ’ |
| 7 | Were you responsible for the horse or were you a cattle man ? |
| 8 | The Department of Health and Social Security is itself responsible for the delivery of social security benefits , and maintains its own regional structure and a system of local offices for this purpose . |
| 9 | In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 . |
| 10 | Another possible explanagion of the association between the PGC RFLP and gastric ulcer disease is that the PGC gene is not itself responsible for the predisposition but one of the responsible genes is closely linked to it . |
| 11 | Eli himself for the most part does not appear in a bad light , but as the one responsible for the proper functioning of the sanctuary , he is implicated in his sons ' guilt , is at one point accused of sharing their greed , and is doomed to share in great disgrace about to befall his family . |
| 12 | Newton ( erroneously regarded as a materialist by those who should know better ) was the one responsible for the Western scientific endorsement of ‘ ether ’ prior to 1 930 , having based his own work on much earlier sources , including the Greeks . |
| 13 | ‘ She has suffered considerable personal distress since being identified as the one responsible for the bomb hoax and will be very upset by a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 14 | In what follows I shall describe one type of such interconnection , though I confess I am not by any means sure that it is the one responsible for the rapid modification process . |
| 15 | What is extraordinary is how seldom the anger is unleashed on the partner , the one responsible for the loss . |
| 16 | If the module is on a working DC ( ie. a DC in state ACTIVE or in state IN APPROVAL ) , LIFESPAN ABLE will ensure that the module is contained within a suitable package , that the user specified ( at the beginning of the run ) is the one responsible for the DC and that the DC is in the ‘ active ’ state . |
| 17 | By then Leith was feeling more than a shade guilty that she was the one responsible for the two having met . |
| 18 | they would have to arrest everyone responsible for the present crises . |
| 19 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 20 | Nobody would now hold them responsible for the Revolution in France , but the Encyclopedie , which Diderot inaugurated ( and edited with D'Alembert ) and to which he contributed hundreds of articles himself , undermined the authority of the regime , and argued for a re-ordering of society on rational grounds . |
| 21 | In his Autumn Statement in November 1989 the Chancellor of the Exchequer accused local authorities of ‘ massive overspending ’ , and held them responsible for the fact that public expenditure for 1989/90 was expected to be £1 billion higher than originally planned . |
| 22 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 23 | Scott gave Ruskin little praise in his later writings and held him responsible for the introduction of the ‘ Italian mania ’ into the Gothic Revival . |
| 24 | Mr Nicklin , a 48-year-old insurance manager , was kept captive for two years by the Saudis , who held him responsible for the debts of his American-owned firm . |
| 25 | Charles has taken vows before God making him responsible for the Christian upbringing of the child . |
| 26 | He is designated Commander-in-Chief , making him responsible for the safety of US troops abroad and for dealing with any threat to the nation 's security at home . |
| 27 | The onset of World War I made him responsible for the design and erection of explosives plant for the Ministry of Munitions , as well as plants for heavy chemicals , dyestuffs , intermediates , and synthetic drugs which , until that time , had been imported from Germany . |
| 28 | As Dispensary physician almost the whole burden of the epidemic fell on his shoulders and the women of Aberdeen turned against him , holding him responsible for the facts he revealed , and disputing his fervent belief in the efficacy of purging and heavy bleeding which were ‘ repugnant to popular opinion ’ . |
| 29 | Erm , and so Freud at the beginning says that he er , he , he had a personal dislike of er Wilson , and resented him for what he had done and held him responsible for the subsequent disasters . |
| 30 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |