Example sentences of "are [adv] responsible for " in BNC.

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1 By Manchester Monday I 'm sitting in Dry surprised to discover that that was only their second gig , and there are only five of them — Tony , Phil and Richard , who are mostly responsible for the music , guitarist Paul , and vocalist Theresa — when live it sounds like at least 20 keyboards going down at once .
2 Our adult education service does not have staff who are wholly responsible for special needs and is dependent upon generic full-timers and a few specialist part-timers .
3 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 .
4 When employees are accompanied by their families , they may be able to use company housing at Pilkingtons ' expense but employees are entirely responsible for lighting , heating and the maintenance of their families .
5 As we argued throughout the proceedings of the European parliamentary elections bill , the Conservatives are entirely responsible for the fact that this process of drawing up the new European boundaries had to be compressed into such a short time .
6 However , another potential source of inequality , ‘ cream skimming ’ , which arises with HMOs is removed since , unlike HMOs , DHAs are compulsorily responsible for all residents and thus can not select only the lower risks .
7 Under the policy we are only responsible for providing a replacement item and are not responsible for supplying matching items .
8 Under the policy we are only responsible for providing a replacement item and are not responsible for supplying matching items .
9 Like the sole trader , the partners are personally responsible for paying off any debts the shop may incur .
10 If you are personally responsible for the payment of fees please state SELF .
11 The partners are personally responsible for all the affairs of the firm so that whatever system of management is put into place must be subject to their overall supervision .
12 Wordsworth returns again and again to his main problem , whether we are in some sense ‘ led ’ by spiritual agencies — notice that he is not sure , and carefully qualifies any dogmatic statements — or whether we are alone responsible for what we become .
13 They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too .
14 As women are largely responsible for the emotional wellbeing of society , it is hardly surprising that the shop-talk of women is gossip .
15 Infectious diseases , particularly the diarrhoeal diseases , are both difficult to prevent and control in such circumstances and they are largely responsible for the high morbidity and mortality rates in many areas of the world .
16 MODERN , mechanised systems for harvesting , handling and grading potatoes are largely responsible for contact transfer of potato gangrene — one of the most commercially important diseases of stored potatoes .
17 Parents are largely responsible for providing the right environment so that their children grow up happy , balanced and free from hang-ups .
18 Despite all of the official curriculum plans , there are many instances where the contents are inappropriate and still more where the plans themselves are largely responsible for the weakness in implementation .
19 High fleet sales are largely responsible for the temporary boom , according to Ford .
20 Some aspects of physical decline in old age are largely responsible for comparable decline in social functioning .
21 He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma .
22 These issues have been intensified by the fact that , because of the very restrictive conditions operating in the Britain of today , most notably those relating to the labour market and housing , the migration processes which are largely responsible for these shifts have proved more than normally selective in terms of the types of people involved .
23 Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place .
24 Guinness around the world , part three : these three girls are largely responsible for promoting Guinness in the south-east Asian country of Vietnam , where Foreign Extra Stout was introduced last year .
25 Nevertheless it is differences in the density and thickness of the crust that are largely responsible for variations in the isostatic adjustment of the lithosphere as a whole .
26 The toxic PCBs are present in many of the country 's rivers , says the WWF , and are largely responsible for the decline of the species which in England is now only found in Northumberland , the West Country and a small area of East Anglia .
27 As the largest music distributor in the USA , Kaman are already responsible for Takamine and Hamer guitars as well as Ovation , the original synthetic bowl-back guitar that Charles Kaman himself invented back in 1966 ( some readers may have already spotted a close connection between Ovation and Trace Acoustic in ads featuring players like Adrian Legg and Robert Fripp ) .
28 We are not responsible for what politicians and others do with them . ’
29 And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’
30 Those who are not responsible for raising taxes are not likely to be responsible about spending them .
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