Example sentences of "[pron] was responsible for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am only too aware I was responsible for the legislation … |
| 2 | I was responsible for the development of battery operated equipment at A.E.R.E. Harwell for a number of years . |
| 3 | I was in sole charge of the bank , and I was responsible for the safe and its contents because the Manager had gone to Parma that day . |
| 4 | In 1985 in Washington DC I was responsible for the security co-ordination of eleven prime ministers and twenty other Conservative party leaders from around the world who were there for the International Democrat Union Party Leaders ' meeting . |
| 5 | It is almost certain that both forms of the disease were present in late-fourteenth-century England , and it may well have been the pneumonic form , the more lethal of the two , which was responsible for the scale of the mortality in 1348–49 ( 53 , pp.172–3 ) . |
| 6 | It was these ancient devices that allowed the followers of darkness to move so swiftly about the world , and the cataclysmic release of their corrupting energies which was responsible for the spawning of so many beastmen and monsters . |
| 7 | Observations and comments on the proposal were requested by the B.R.B. in early 1948 from their various departmental heads and all responsible personnel involved , which included the Llandudno Junction Motive Power District , then coded 7A , which was responsible for the garage depots at Bangor ( 7B ) , Holyhead ( 7C ) , Rhyl ( 7D ) and its sub-shed at Denbigh . |
| 8 | It was this group of AHA members which was responsible for the establishment of an Area working party on mental health services . |
| 9 | It may be conceded however , that there is , or was , a power or some other kind of influence beyond man 's comprehension , which was responsible for the start of life , but that influence must be identified with the timeless universe itself . |
| 10 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 11 | As oral amiodarone had no adverse effect on the liver function in our patient , we suggest that it may have been one of the other constituents of the intravenous solution which was responsible for the hepatotoxicity . |
| 12 | It is often assumed that Wordsworth himself was responsible for the fame of the area as a holiday centre , but this is only partly true . |
| 13 | She was responsible for a lot of the housework and looked after her younger brothers and sisters . |
| 14 | They think they 're one and the same , and that she was responsible for the attack . |
| 15 | Who was responsible for the curriculum ? |
| 16 | On Monday , the jury at Mold Crown Court , was told by Burgess that it was McLean who was responsible for the attack , kicking and stamping on her . |
| 17 | One other member of my group ( the same one who was responsible for the incident with the fish ) decided to mix various chemicals together in a conical flask . |
| 18 | These verses are on the tablet to the left , the right tablet being a celebration of the Spanish governor Pietro Giorgio Burro who was responsible for the school 's construction . |
| 19 | In contrast to general victim compensation schemes which do not require that any individual be identified as the perpetrator of the offence for which the victim is claiming , ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ provisions allow the victim to recover from the earnings of the particular person who was responsible for the damage suffered . |
| 20 | There was a good deal of discussion in December 1902 , as to who was responsible for the cost of road widening , the B.E.T . |
| 21 | The English manner of waging war , that of the chevauchée , the raid carried out largely by mounted soldiers ( who were thus fully mobile ) through the enemy 's countryside , with the intention of pillaging enemy property , destroying crops , and thereby creating an air of insecurity , could not be allowed to continue too long unchallenged , since such an exercise undermined ( as it was intended to do ) the authority of the king of France , who was responsible for the defence of his people . |
| 22 | There is no evidence to indicate who was responsible for the attempt to have the alleged land deal story published . |
| 23 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 24 | Although the early ‘ fire ’ of the Red Clydesiders lost much of its impetus in Westminster as the years went by , it was Maxton 's fellow social crusader David Kirkwood who was responsible for the announcement by Neville Chamberlain , then dealing with bits of paper as Chancellor of the Exchequer , that work was to be resumed on hull 534 in Clydebank . |
| 25 | It was the Duc de Richelieu who was responsible for the introduction of refined cutlery . |
| 26 | He mentioned to Sergeant Pope that he knew who was responsible for the murder of Oliver . |
| 27 | He went to find the local lawyer , who was responsible for the house . |
| 28 | An example to us all in this respect is professor John Honnold , who was responsible for the creation of UNCITRAL and was its first Secretary . |
| 29 | It was Mr Thompson who was responsible for the destruction of most of the gearing in 1952 , following which he was evicted from the mill . |
| 30 | If the Emperor encouraged Haussmann by taking a personal interest in his plans , it was the Empress who worked with Alphand , a man who might well be called the gardener of Paris , for it was he who was responsible for the landscaping and planting of all the new parks . |