Example sentences of "responsible [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increase in the amount of carbon dioxide is responsible for about half the total warming . |
| 2 | These foods are responsible for about two-thirds of food poisoning outbreaks . |
| 3 | Yet daytime is also believed to be responsible for about 75% of the visible signs of skin ageing . |
| 4 | And it is a a very important pathogen responsible for about a third of the cases of meningitis in in this country almost exclusively in children . |
| 5 | These foreign-owned firms were responsible for about 20 per cent of UK manufacturing output — a slightly lower proportion than in France , West Germany or Italy , but becoming more diverse as investment from the EC , Japan and other industrialized countries increased while that of the USA declined . |
| 6 | It must be noted however that Alliance and UPNI supporters were also responsible for about 1,300 non-transferable votes and it would have been necessary for these either to have remained non-transferable or to have favoured SDLP as much as UUUC for those votes to have had no effect on the relative position of SDLP and VUPP . |
| 7 | The 10 companies , in Belgium , France , West Germany and Italy , were responsible for about half of total EC consumption of cement . |
| 8 | Japan alone is responsible for about 100,000 dolphin deaths a year . |
| 9 | Nitrous oxide is also responsible for about six per cent of the greenhouse effect . |
| 10 | IT IS NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE ICI Chemicals & Polymers was formed on New Year 's Day in 1987 as a new group within ICI responsible for about a third of the Group 's total assets and turnover . |
| 11 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |