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Example sentences of "[was/were] responsible for [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’
2	Last week , they were responsible for A Wanted Man ( BBC 2 ) , a powerful trilogy of plays by Malcom McKay about the police interrogation , trial and attempted rehabiliation of a murderer .
3	Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days .
4	But in the aftermath of the war , Robertson and Alan Sked were responsible for a political blunder which put them in the news again .
5	Unfortunately , the Engineering Council ran into trouble with the fact that they did want to put some penal clauses in whereby engineers were responsible for a lot of their actions .
6	Paradoxically , we might note that these services were responsible for a major portion of expenditure of the Metropolitan Authorities and the rises in expenditure incurred through policy of central Government were used as one of the rationales for dismantling these Authorities .
7	The approaches which have been here categorised as elite approaches do not suggest that a small clique were responsible for a decision taken at some unspecified point in the past that government should grow .
8	In Grampian small companies accounted for 28.5% of all exports , while large companies were responsible for a 71.5% share .
9	Several thousand demostrators had taken to the streets , attacked " indecently dressed " women ( who they claimed were responsible for a drought ) , set fire to the head office of the Niger Women 's Association ( AFN ) , and also attacked the residences of the local prefect and sultan .
10	Acting as Port Agent for P&O Cruises for the first time , Ellerman & Bucknall were responsible for a range of activities all aimed at ensuring a trouble free visit for Canberra in both Durban and Cape Town .
11	Herbert Morrison once argued that ministers were responsible for every stamp stuck on every envelope and that if faults occurred within a department , the minister was at fault in that he had failed to lay down adequate procedures and systems of control .
12	Interior ministry sources said they suspected ultra-rightwing groups were responsible for the murder .
13	He asked whether senior officers who had resigned had given falling pollution standards as the reason and whether staff shortages were responsible for the failure to carry out half the tests that should have been performed .
14	During the 41 years of Communist rule , an as yet undisclosed number of secret police agents were involved in continuous surveillance operations against citizens and were responsible for the interrogation and harassment of dissidents .
15	It was the Howards who were responsible for the daring architectural refinements of the late sixteenth and very early seventeenth century .
16	Over in the next valley to the west lies the great park and lost house of Frampton Court , the home of the beneficent Browne family who were responsible for the building of Forston Manor .
17	( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . )
18	Dawson and Slooten discovered that these nylon monofilament gill-nets , up to 3000 metres ( 9750 feet ) in length , were responsible for the deaths of far more dolphins than had ever been officially reported , and that the local dolphin population was in fact declining rapidly .
19	The next diplomatic process concerned the men who were responsible for the girls .
20	The Forest Justices were responsible for the enforcement of the Forest law throughout their Justiceships .
21	The agisters were responsible for the agistment of the king 's demesne woods in the forest .
22	The frescos also had high carbon levels , and these were responsible for the darkening of the paintings .
23	In 1972 it was realised that this property depended on a separate histamine receptor ( H2 ) which was different from histamine ( H1 ) receptors in the lung and elsewhere , which were responsible for the allergic action of histamine .
24	Although the petitioners realised that it was government policies which were responsible for the impoverishment of the masses , the movement did not oppose government , it appealed to it for improvements .
25	The U-boat activity and the occupation of part of France by the enemy were responsible for the food shortages , which sent prices soaring .
26	The Grand Almoner was the Archbishop of Paris , who was assisted by a vicar-general and five chaplains who were responsible for the services in the chapels of the Imperial residences .
27	Nevertheless , large areas of the Palace remained very ill-lit ; servants who were responsible for the maintenance of the oil lamps , the only means of lighting the corridors and the small dark private staircases , were obliged to circulate day and night .
28	In both cases , the ideas of a very influential but small number of people in the United States ( individuals as well as institutions ) backed by large foreign aid funds ( and a wealth of expertise , particularly in soil conservation ) , were responsible for the presence of both family planning and conservation programmes in many lesser developed countries .
29	Direct evidence was obtained that certain ovarian hormones , the oestrogens , were responsible for the growth of the breasts , both in humans and other mammals .
30	The poor spawning facilities were responsible for the lack of smaller bream , and the lack of an excess of natural food made sure a successful brood did not grow to specimen weight .