Example sentences of "responsible for [pron] [adj] action " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients aged 18 or over are deemed legally responsible for their own actions , and it is often with great reluctance that they will agree to see a doctor and possibly begin treatment or undergo admission to hospital . |
| 2 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 3 | All people were to be treated as fully responsible for their own actions , including their own offences . |
| 4 | Thus , whereas classicism 's image of human nature portrayed all human beings as being fully responsible for their own actions , Bentham saw criminals as having limited rationality and responsibility , but thought that they could be made more rational by the correct application of reformative techniques in his ‘ mill for grinding rogues honest ’ , as he called the Panopticon . |
| 5 | The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes . |
| 6 | The formation of a company therefore involves the creation of a new legal entity which is able to trade and be responsible for its own actions . |
| 7 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 8 | The more you thrust forward your ideas , your solutions , your methods , the less the subordinate will feel responsible for his own actions , and hence committed . |
| 9 | Antonia , talking in London , said that at the end of the day ‘ you are responsible for your own actions ’ . |