Example sentences of "is [verb] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a bitch in whelp comes into the centre one of the staff is made responsible for her care throughout her stay . |
| 2 | The project starts in the R & D department where one engineer is made responsible for it . |
| 3 | In some cases of ‘ disappearance ’ the whole family is held responsible for the ‘ crime ’ of one of its members . |
| 4 | In practice a contestant is held responsible for the behaviour of team-members and the coach , and he may face a severe penalty if they misbehave . |
| 5 | Reference is constantly made to the president 's budget and the chief executive is held responsible for the consequences of budgetary policy , especially by members of the opposition party in Congress . |
| 6 | But this same culture and family system is held responsible for a widespread pathology supposedly afflicting ‘ Asian ’ girls and thus also their education : the malaise of being ‘ caught between two cultures ’ , an ‘ identity crisis ’ , a form of individual splitting between two essentialized cultural forms , ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ British/Western ’ . |
| 7 | The high prison population is held responsible for overcrowding and understaffing in prisons , both of which exacerbate the bad conditions in England 's ageing prisons . |
| 8 | Each student is held responsible for registering his or her own module programme . |