Example sentences of "probably responsible for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 2 | IRA terrorists were probably responsible for the two successive nights of blasts on Tyneside , a police chief said today . |
| 3 | He was probably responsible for the corrective Gorbachev gave in January last year to his own speech on the 70th anniversary of the revolution in 1987 . |
| 4 | The results shown in Fig. 1 suggest that several transcription factors could bind to the -594 to -314 promoter fragment and that these factors are probably responsible for the observed transcription pattern . |
| 5 | In most countries it is customary to test the mother 's blood for evidence of syphilis when she is first seen for antenatal care , and this one measure is probably responsible for the extreme rarity of cases of early congenital syphilis . |