Example sentences of "[be] [adv] responsible for the " 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 Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour .
3 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 .
4 He has been entirely responsible for the administration of the school … he will be very difficult to replace . ’
5 If you are personally responsible for the payment of fees please state SELF .
6 Beatrice saw him reading Les Liaisons Dangéreuses and slated that too , claiming that it was a steamy romance seized upon by the mothers of France ‘ and said to have been largely responsible for the modern severity towards young daughters ’ .
7 Although Laclotte has been largely responsible for the choice of works , he emphasises that this is a collaborative exhibition , with different parts of the catalogue by different specialists , not always in perfect agreement with one another : ‘ There is no absolute truth in matters of attribution , just opinion ’ , he says .
8 As Central Committee Secretary for Agriculture between 1978–85 , Gorbachev was bound to have been largely responsible for the limited measures undertaken in support of private plots .
9 The last section of the book is devoted to a description of what has been achieved with the telescope and is dedicated to John Bolton , who has been largely responsible for the dish 's successful operation .
10 As women are largely responsible for the emotional wellbeing of society , it is hardly surprising that the shop-talk of women is gossip .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 High fleet sales are largely responsible for the temporary boom , according to Ford .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 There was a connection of sorts — Carolan was Stavanger 's son-in-law , but fathers are not responsible for the political views of the husbands of their daughters , and there was no evidence — apart from the election address in his desk — that Stavanger took much interest in the political life of the Carolans .
17 The Liberal Democrats might be Cinderella , but they are not responsible for the 40 years of failure of the Two Ugly Sisters .
18 But they 're also responsible for the gormless gibberish of ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ .
19 The fact that central government was now beginning to regard Siberia as an integral part of Russia as a whole , rather than merely as a colonial appendage , was marked by the abolition in 1763 of the Siberian Department ( Sibirskii prikaz ) , the central state bureau which had , with a brief interruption under Peter the Great , been directly responsible for the governance and administration of the territory since 1637 .
20 First , although the people involved in the development of the system are directly responsible for the performance and accuracy of the system , they have little control over the way the system will be used or interpreted .
21 You are still responsible for the SPR and should address the problem(s) listed or ask a user with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege to ‘ force ’ another user to accept it .
22 As it happens , the Americans are partly responsible for the building firms ' good fortune .
23 The alternative — that these lower levels are partly responsible for the development of oesophagitis — is also possible .
24 American and Britain are partly responsible for the way the Russians are now cos we finance most of their industry in the second World War
25 On Oct. 30 , on the other hand , a report by observers from the Paris-based International League of Human Rights claimed that " an extremely sophisticated method of fraud " had been partly responsible for the IDA getting twice as many National Assembly seats as the PPP with virtually the same share of the popular vote .
26 There has been some suggestion that computer trading techniques have been partly responsible for the crash ( or what is called programme trading ) .
27 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 .
28 You are also responsible for the formation of future adults and , although children may not seem terribly appreciative at the time , most of them , when grown up , look back with delight on simple childhood memories .
29 Also if the people who will later run the computer are also responsible for the software , then they are more likely to fit the programming to their own needs , which can save time and money later .
30 The latter proteins are also responsible for the exceptionally smooth consistency of all the Hydro-Protein cosmetic treatments in this extensive collection .
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