Example sentences of "responsible for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they were chosen by the landowners of the county , the latter were held responsible for their conduct in office . |
| 2 | If they became tied agents they were authorised to do business through the life office which took them on ; the life office , in turn , was responsible for their conduct . |
| 3 | Welfare , in the broader view of which this approach to child care might be deemed a part , is construed in individual terms : individuals are deemed responsible for their conduct , and little weight is given to structural , environmental and material determinants of behaviour . |
| 4 | The only area in which this strategy is likely to come unstuck is health , where even radical supporters of Thatcherite policies have recognised that the sick can not be held responsible for their illness . |
| 5 | Tendencies to stereotype patients as unrewarding and responsible for their illness must be firmly discouraged . |
| 6 | In the Christian communities , discussions on personal relations between both men and women placed emphasis on the need to make men more responsible for their families and take an equal part in domestic work . |
| 7 | You are responsible for their welfare . ’ |
| 8 | Although there is a claim that these vats were introduced by Charles Tennant Dunlop and Heinrich Buff of Giessen , it is generally accepted that Shanks was responsible for their development . |
| 9 | Two distinct mechanisms are responsible for their development into significant morphological features . |
| 10 | There is a clear analogy to computers here which are only as good as the individuals who are responsible for their programs : An error in either case results in chaos . |
| 11 | Environment Minister Hans Alders plans to introduce " life-cycle management " , wherein manufacturers will be responsible for their products at all stages , including transporting , sorting , recycling and remarketing . |
| 12 | Spracklen , who is 52 and lives in Marlow , has been largely responsible for their revival , believing them as valid today as they were 100 years ago . |
| 13 | The early Turbomeca Marbore IIs fitted to G-FUGA are unsophisticated single-stage centrifugal-compressor straight turbojets with minimal automatic controls , so the pilot is entirely responsible for their well-being at low rpm , and woe betide him if he tries to hurry them . |
| 14 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 15 | I could be doing eight or nine subjects so generally the girls are responsible for their education . |
| 16 | They must also communicate these to staff at the school and be responsible for their operation . |
| 17 | This was based upon an annual interview of all staff by the senior member of staff responsible for their work ( for example a head of faculty ) . |
| 18 | City technology colleges ( CTCs ) will be independent of LEAs : the DES will pay running costs but promoters will own or lease the premises and be responsible for their management , employing teachers , etc . |
| 19 | A small proportion involves those who are engaged indirectly , their services being obtained from other organisations which are responsible for their remuneration and which charge the client organisation a fee . |
| 20 | The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions . |
| 21 | It would deny that men are responsible for their actions , make evil into a positive force . |
| 22 | The perpetrators are held to be responsible for their actions and there is an emphasis on retribution , not only against the murderer or murderers , but also against the social workers who , it is claimed , failed the child . |
| 23 | Under retributive justice punishment is justified because it is ‘ deserved ’ by free , choice-making individuals who are held responsible for their actions . |
| 24 | It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form . |
| 25 | Given the knowledge it is always possible to hold someone responsible for their actions . |
| 26 | Each programme is operated by a group of people all working towards some organizational objective and headed by a manager who is responsible for their actions . |
| 27 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 28 | Some people take exception to this on the ground that it may imply that women generally have weaker characters and are less responsible for their behaviour . |
| 29 | Advantages include the fact that you are not responsible for their rents if they leave and that you have a clearly-defined personal space , however small . |
| 30 | He felt responsible for their separation and he knew that when he had had problems in the past , his parents had stopped arguing so much and pulled together to help him . |