Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] responsible for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I will of course remain responsible for Barton , since I know Andy well , ’ Peter Yeo said , firmly .
2 Complaints continued however because the chemical compounds responsible for the odour were detectable at minute concentrations ( 0.002 ppm ) .
3 Thereafter , the Lord Chancellor became responsible for the Council on Tribunals , appointing its chairman and members , staffing it , and sticking up for it when it needed help against recalcitrant departments .
4 The Institute of Marketing defines marketing as ‘ the management process responsible for identifying , anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably ’ .
5 The Institute of Marketing defines it as ‘ the management process responsible for identifying , anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably ’ .
6 As a result of the Transfer Regulations the purchaser becomes responsible for all the rights , obligations and liabilities of the vendor under the employment contracts for all persons employed in the business transferred .
7 This family of intracellular calcium channels displays the regenerative process of calcium-induced calcium release responsible for the complex spatiotemporal patterns of calcium waves and oscillations .
8 She is Elizabeth Reid , 46 , who comes to Lothian from the London Guildhall University where she was deputy provost responsible for all aspects of planning and development including financial planning and employee relations .
9 ‘ It is well settled that certainly no person made responsible for a judicial decision can delegate his responsibility .
10 The ‘ thirtysomething ’ syndrome seems responsible for many of her commissions — one woman has ordered a picture of her husband ‘ because he 's a successful , handsome man ’ , and she wants to ‘ get him while he 's till good-looking ’ .
11 This , in turn , was toxic to the tree roots responsible for uptake of nutrients such as magnesium .
12 The District became responsible for Terminal and Short courses extending over six to twelve meetings as well as a variety of informal , pioneering courses and discussion groups of fewer than six meetings ; the last category attracting grant-aid for the first time .
13 The fact that that is the test does not detract from the fact that the health authority remains responsible for the management of the ECR budget .
14 With the passing of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 , the 1982 Act was amended to allow the Audit Commission to become responsible for the appointment of auditors to health service bodies .
15 The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’
16 No less important , once the electric power could be turned down , the State became responsible for supporting all workers and their dependents for the duration of the strike .
17 Its central feature was acceptance of the so-called mixed economy — that is , a capitalist framework within which state enterprise was tolerated and the government held responsible for managing the economy .
18 Ludwig Erhard , who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor in October 1963 , was an experienced minister , the man held responsible for German economic success since 1949 , deeply committed to the US alliance and who , at 66 , could look forward to a long career as Chancellor — given the record of his predecessor .
19 Collecting information would be improved by making the officer who generated or handled information objects responsible for transferring the master copy to the central storage system , a back-up copy being retained on file for use when the master is already on loan and further copies are required .
20 Clearly the trace-element enrichment process responsible for the offsets in Pb isotopic composition in Fig. 2 c is largely independent of the exact precursor material and the longer-term heterogeneity of the mantle .
21 There is also a Darwinian reason that we believe in free will : A society in which the individual feels responsible for his or her actions is more likely to work together and survive to spread its values .
22 The company remains responsible for property insurance and maintenance .
23 If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him .
24 At one stage we ran short of supplies and Phil , no doubt feeling responsible for our predicament , volunteered to take the rubber duck into Clovelly .
25 Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign !
26 Er one of the members of staff of the Leiston Grammar School , a chap named Johnny erm , was in charge of his trainees and erm there again erm Arthur and our section became responsible for erm all this in-service training for er , er women mainly because the men of course had joined up and erm the used to come in quite often and er he got , used to get so upset because he could n't erm , he got at cross purposes with some of these ladies
27 The HAT becomes responsible for managing the estates and particularly for improving both the housing and the environment .
28 The apportionment , usually expressed in percentage terms , operates with the same penalty as in the normal Tender , viz. that in the event that after Proof the party to whom the Tender has been made is found liable for a greater proportion of the claim than was offered to him , then that party becomes responsible for the Tenderer 's expenses from the date when the Tender was lodged .
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