Example sentences of "they [am/are] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men do not share support with child care simply because so few of them are responsible for the care of children , and so on . |
| 2 | Among innumerable other tasks they are responsible for stamping the lead or paper seals which enclose wine bottle corks . |
| 3 | Another effect of media censorship is that , far from leaving the public unaware of black people being involved in crime , many people now think that they are responsible for just about all the crime they read about . |
| 4 | They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed . |
| 5 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 6 | Before doing so , however , governors should know that they are responsible for understanding , complying with and enforcing national health and safety regulations . |
| 7 | They are responsible for sending intractable wastes out of the country , at their expense , for treatment . |
| 8 | ‘ But now they are responsible for the whole distribution process and they have no experience of how to deal with it . ’ |
| 9 | Now they are really dangerous and I understand that even today they are responsible for a number of deaths and serious accidents each year among farm workers . |
| 10 | ‘ We now call our account managers entrepreneurs because they are responsible for their own budgets and for how they spend and allocate their funds . ’ |
| 11 | We were also conscious that many English teachers are non-specialists : the Kingman Report points out that 28 per cent of teachers in secondary schools have no formal qualifications in English beyond 0-level and that they are responsible for 15 per cent of English teaching ( paragraph 6.4 ) . |
| 12 | They are responsible for what goes on but quite clearly some have been turning a blind eye . ’ |
| 13 | Throughout , our view has been that it is teachers who are closest to children , and together with parents they are responsible for deciding how to use the tools at hand . |
| 14 | While the evidence he cites shows that Y-cells may be capable of sustaining some form of pattern vision it does not show that they are responsible for it in the normal brain . |
| 15 | They are responsible for recycling it . |
| 16 | Although the neutrinos provide 30% of the mass in this model , they are responsible for the fit on scales 30 h -1 Mpc . |
| 17 | They are responsible for the security of the building during the night and will often be required to operate the telephone switchboard if there is no telephonist on duty . |
| 18 | Such bodies are set up outside government partly so that they can attract skilled personnel who might not be prepared to work for the core of government ; so that they can develop a high level of expertise in the area they are responsible for ; and so that they can develop policy in an atmosphere divorced from direct party political pressures . |
| 19 | While doing housework they are responsible for children and must know what the children are doing : while looking after children they are almost always involved in housework activities . |
| 20 | Chiefly they are responsible for hiring coaches to away matches and for getting occasional petitions signed . |
| 21 | ‘ They are responsible for a lot of the machine tools that we have now , ’ Gerwyn says , ‘ and they developed them because they did n't believe in wasted labour . |
| 22 | Between them they are responsible for handling 95 per cent of the criminal cases tried in the country though a few who are convicted in this way ( just over 4,000 in 1999 , which is 1.6 per cent of all indictable offenders convicted in the magistrates ' courts ) are committed to the Crown Court for sentence . |
| 23 | In recent years , however , monetarist and related theories have questioned this with claims that government attempts to manage the economy and the consequent high levels of public expenditure are counter-productive — they are responsible for the economic decline of the country . |
| 24 | These authorities employ some 2.35m staff ( 1987 ) and , collectively , they are responsible for providing over fifty different services . |
| 25 | As professional bodies , they are responsible for laying down a code of conduct for their members with the ultimate aim of providing the highest standards of service for the public . |
| 26 | The association has agreed to meet this expense but it will be pointed out to the Youth Club that if they are responsible for any further damage they will be required to provide the cash . |
| 27 | It says that they will promote enterprise , but they are responsible for wiping out more enterprises than any Government in British history . |
| 28 | Ministers make excuses in their own interests , but they are responsible for these matters and they should do their job properly . |
| 29 | The , er , credit to that goes to the chairman and chief executive and the executive directors and they are responsible for the business and it is right , in my view , that they should be rewarded for it and encouraged to take risks to work very hard on our behalf to ensure that that growth continues er , er , that benefits the , er , company , it benefits the country it benefits the er ergo , people who are working for it , it is not inflationary because we are looking at productivity and the productivity in the company has increased significantly . |
| 30 | They are responsible for the long range planning activities of the firm and they will set the overall goals . |