Example sentences of "was responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bass , Britain 's major brewing combine , was responsible for a quarter of all advertising spending and spent £15.14 million on lager compared to £6.67 on beer . |
| 2 | ‘ No , you see , Lady Woodleigh , it was not Miss Abernethie who was responsible for the death of Jack who went up the hill . |
| 3 | Better informed sources suggested Soviet pressure on East Germany was responsible for the climbdown . |
| 4 | However , Drs Keith Brown and Mike Roberts found that nitric acid was produced from atmospheric nitrogen at the same time and that this was responsible for most of the damage . |
| 5 | Richards made it worryingly clear how far the Church was responsible for enshrining such illiberal attitudes , though to do it credit , the Church also introduced consent to marriage and made rape a crime against the person , rather than property . |
| 6 | The museum claimed that Capricorn or the second defendant , as Capricorn 's agent , was responsible for the loss of the plaque . |
| 7 | Who was responsible for this pleasant girl being effectively unemployable ? |
| 8 | The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |
| 9 | The disagreement follows China 's recent assertion that Britain was responsible for the crisis of confidence in Hong Kong and that Whitehall had ‘ connived ’ with locals who were attempting to overthrow the Chinese government . |
| 10 | While at the British Council , which he joined in 1946 , he was responsible for the recording of Shakespeare 's plays , under the direction of George Rylands . |
| 11 | He was responsible for the British Council 's highly successful Byron exhibition in Athens in 1974 , a timely reminder of the long-standing friendship between the two countries . |
| 12 | The result of this cocktailing of influences is a vastly entertaining album , with lots of spritely guitars ( ex-Housemartin Norman Cook was responsible for the mixing ) and get-up-and-jig rhythm . |
| 13 | He was responsible for a major reform of Government administration , including a new public service act , which helped to facilitate the rapid localisation of the civil service . |
| 14 | From 1967 to 1975 he was the Ford Foundation 's representative in Nairobi , and was responsible for developing an innovative and highly influential programme to support the process of Africanisation . |
| 15 | LORD ALDINGTON denied in the High Court yesterday that he was responsible for seeking permission from higher command to use force to repatriate unwilling Cossacks from Austria only days after General Dwight Eisenhower , Supreme Allied Commander , offered to arrange their peaceful evacuation in May 1945 . |
| 16 | Lord Aldington — formerly Brigadier Toby Low — who is suing for libel damages over allegations that he is guilty of war crimes , denied a suggestion by Richard Rampton QC , for the defence , that he was responsible for drafting the 23 May request . |
| 17 | Tommy McLean , the Fir Park boss , was responsible for a shrewd piece of business which saw his old Rangers colleague Davie Cooper join the Steelmen to add dashes of invention and experience . |
| 18 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 19 | It appears that the shelling of yesterday evening was responsible for all this damage . |
| 20 | The nation-wide state publishing organization , Gosizdat , was responsible for the dissemination of official literature of all kinds , but the flow of materials to the provinces remained very weak even as late as 1923 . |
| 21 | One was responsible for industrial relations and union negotiations . |
| 22 | He travelled widely in those days , often accompanied by his wife , and they lived for two years in the United States where he was responsible for ICI 's affairs in North and South America . |
| 23 | Lotus was responsible for the alloy cylinder head , pistons and intake and exhaust manifolds , while Chrysler engineers developed all other elements . |
| 24 | More than anyone else , he was responsible for transforming BRM from motor racing 's laughing stock into the efficient outfit that won the world championship in 1962 . |
| 25 | He was responsible for all those men at Magdalen who were reading English . |
| 26 | Miss Gawel was previously with the Civil Service Catering Organisation ( CISCO ) where she was responsible for 27 outlets . |
| 27 | David Chambers of Le Meridien was responsible for the foie gras starter , Vaughan Archer of the London Hilton for the broth of scallops , Martin Davies of Brown 's Hotel for the wild salmon stuffed with tomato and cream courgettes . |
| 28 | Brother Huub de Bij has returned from a short stay in Israel where he was responsible for directing and producing a colour-video highlighting the plight of Christian Arabs , ‘ a minority within a minority ’ . |
| 29 | It should be remembered that the modern movement was responsible for great moral and social improvements when one looks sentimentally at the past . |
| 30 | POLICE say a young loner who claimed feminists had ruined his life was responsible for a bloody shooting spree at a Montreal university in which 14 women were killed . |