Example sentences of "being responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If being responsible for eradicating any sense of loss at Parkhead troubled ‘ Jacki ’ , it did not show . |
| 2 | He was a designer of extraordinary versatility , being responsible for the standard ‘ traditional ’ red telephone kiosk , Waterloo Bridge and several power stations . |
| 3 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 4 | However , its role in influencing these rhythms — let alone actually being responsible for them — is not at all established . |
| 5 | The owners who undertook the conversion of Place Barn were Mr and Mrs J. de Geus — Mrs Ann de Geus being responsible for the concept and much of the detailed design of the conversion . |
| 6 | As well as being responsible for all viewers ' and listeners ' complaints , the council will also monitor programmes from outside Britain but received here . |
| 7 | As well as being responsible for all viewers ' and listeners ' complaints , the council will also monitor programmes from outside the United Kingdom which can be received here , ‘ to ascertain how violence and sexual conduct are portrayed ’ . |
| 8 | Simon Best , Business Development Manager of ICI Seeds There is nothing unusual about ministries being responsible for both industry and the consumer . |
| 9 | There can only be one supreme being responsible for managing the world . |
| 10 | Three major processes are identified as being responsible for new forms of subordination that inspire resistance in the form of new movements : firstly , a commodification of society as individuals are increasingly brought into a market system ; secondly , bureaucratisation resulting from increasing state intervention into daily life and finally cultural massification as the influence of mass media becomes more pervasive ( Slater 1985 ) . |
| 11 | He had the distinction of being viewed with deep suspicion by Seán Mac Stíofáin and William Craig , who both saw him as being responsible for leading the republican movement in a Communist direction . |
| 12 | This business of being responsible for people had to stop somewhere , did n't it ? |
| 13 | Yet Arsenal , accused of being responsible for this perversion of their own style , kept their place among the goal-scoring vanguard despite the tightening of defences everywhere . |
| 14 | This , coupled with the notion of the magistrate as being responsible for enforcement of the judgments handed down by himself or his deputy , would surely suggest that he could give judgment for performance and enforce it specifically . |
| 15 | These include being responsible for publicity and the marketing of the partnership . |
| 16 | Career progression from trainee and junior management levels can be rapid , with managers in their mid to late 20s being responsible for departments or units with annual sales of between £250,000–350,000 . |
| 17 | The army suffered from separate ministers or officials being responsible for plans of campaign , billeting , pay , stores , engineering and artillery matters and movements , this last being designed to keep the military firmly under civilian control , and for similar reasons , instead of being billeted together , units were scattered over as many as six villages . |
| 18 | After being responsible for your pet 's welfare for many years you may feel that you are repaying your pet 's love and loyalty by arranging for their death . |
| 19 | The seven Chakras , or energy vortex centres , are interconnected — each Chakra being responsible for the distribution of life-energy , received from the environment via the energy body or ‘ causal body ’ — to a respective organ of the endocrine system . |
| 20 | Aboriginal sacred sites appear to conform to this principle ; each tribe being responsible for its own section of line , visiting the sites at the appropriate season and performing traditional rituals and chants . |
| 21 | St. Thomas 's isolated position , well outside the medieval town wall , is explained by the bull 's horn and St. Martin 's Church forms the front leg of the running bull — the medieval guild of that church being responsible for providing the bull for the bull-running festival . |
| 22 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |
| 23 | It is linked to hormones , the male androgen hormones being responsible for spot and grease problems in both sexes . |
| 24 | They are clients of the Carnegie Partnership which involves Scotland 's fullback in coaching the Watson 's College schoolboys three times a week and being responsible for developing the commercial side of his club . |
| 25 | ONE of the joys of being responsible for a column like this is that the search for news creates opportunities to become involved in developments which are normally outside the availability of most enthusiasts . |
| 26 | Over a quarter of these were handled by the Big Four , who dominated the top end of the market , being responsible for over 50% of searches for the $100 000 + positions . |
| 27 | Yeats regarded Gibbon as being responsible for having ‘ moved the whole opposition against the poor girl ’ . |
| 28 | Hardly a colour combination to enhance or blend with the pinks and reds of roses by underplanting ( see question number 15 on page 160 ) , but a nearby border or patch of it is widely being reported as being responsible for clearing out all the greenfly ! |
| 29 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 30 | The difference between this and the more probabilistic version of determinism is in what it is that is seen as being responsible for the ‘ looseness ’ of the association . |